Arash Mostofi
Professor at Imperial College London
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolArash Mostofi is a Professor of Materials at Imperial College London with over 20 years' experience developing first-principles modelling tools for materials theory and simulation. His research focuses on defects and interfaces in semiconductors, electron transport in nanowires and nanotubes, and the structure and properties of perovskite oxide thin films, combining deep theoretical insight with practical code development. He has progressed through academic ranks at Imperial after postdoctoral work at MIT and a fellowship at Cambridge, reflecting a sustained record of research leadership and mentorship. An active contributor to open-source scientific software, he has made substantive back-end improvements to the widely used Wannier90 code—enhancing plotting for non-orthogonal cells and refining disentanglement routines—which underscores his commitment to reproducible, community-facing tools. Based in London, he blends rigorous PhD-level theory with hands-on software engineering to advance computational materials science.
20 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (5)
fortran10
condensed-matter-physics10
wan10
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numerical-methods9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wannier-developers/wannier90
Apr 2017 - Apr 2022
Official repository of the Wannier90 code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 34 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Arash primarily worked on improving the `src/plot.F90` file, adding the functionality to use non-orthogonal cells for plotting Wannier functions in cube format. They also introduced a new keyword `wannier_plot_scale` and made adjustments for both crystals and molecules. Additionally, the user updated the `src/disentangle.F90` file, refactoring code and adding initialization steps for the gamma-only branch of `wannierise` in `src/wannierise.F90`. Further, a change was implemented in `src/plot.F90` to avoid compiler warnings regarding integer to logical conversions.
wannier90condensed-matter-physicswannierwannier-functions
mostofi/wannier90
Sep 2016 - Feb 2024
My repository of the Wannier90 code
Contributions:56 pushes, 11 branches in 7 years 6 months
wannier90
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