Summary
Daniele Varsano is a senior researcher and computational physicist with 12+ years driving first-principles simulations of electronic and optical properties in nanostructured materials and biological molecules. Based at CNR’s Institute of Nanoscience, he develops and applies quantum-mechanical methods for light–matter interaction and theoretical spectroscopies with impacts in biophysics, nanotechnology and energy conversion. He leads code and methodological development (notably as a long-standing Yambo developer) and contributes to EU-scale HPC initiatives such as MaX to push materials design toward the exascale. A member of the ETSF steering committee, he blends deep theoretical expertise with practical software engineering for production-grade many-body codes. Trained with a PhD in Materials Science and a laurea in Physics (both with top honors), he pairs rigorous academic credentials with a track record of collaborative, interdisciplinary projects. Colleagues often rely on him to translate complex quantum formalisms into scalable tools used by the wider materials modelling community.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Maturità Classica, Humanities/Humanistic Studies, Maturità Classica, Humanities/Humanistic Studies at Liceo Classico Orazio, Rome Italy
Laurea Degree, Physics, 110/110 cum laude, Laurea Degree, Physics, 110/110 cum laude at Sapienza Università di Roma
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science, sobresaliente cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science, sobresaliente cum laude at Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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