Valerio Vitale
Associate Researcher
Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolValerio Vitale is an Associate Researcher at Istituto Officina dei Materiali (CNR) in Trieste with eight years’ experience developing computational methods for the electronic properties of 2D and moiré materials. He combines a PhD in theoretical chemistry with postdoctoral stints at Cambridge and Imperial College and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the University of Trieste, blending deep theory with practical code development. Valerio is a core contributor to the widely used Wannier90 code, where he implemented SCDM integration and symmetry-aware disentanglement routines, and has contributed to major first-principles packages like Quantum ESPRESSO and ONETEP. He is fluent in FORTRAN, C, C++ and Python and focuses on numerically robust, high-throughput algorithms for materials simulations. Colleagues value him for bridging algorithmic innovation and production-grade software engineering in open-source scientific tools. His background in complexity science and chemical engineering underpins a knack for finding elegant computational reductions in large-scale electronic-structure problems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Theoretical Chemistry at University of SouthamptonMaster's degree, Chemical Engineering and Solid state physics, 108/110, Master's degree, Chemical Engineering and Solid state physics, 108/110 at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Github Skills (5)
fortran10
condensed-matter-physics10
wan10
scientific-computing10
linear-algebra9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wannier-developers/wannier90
Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
Official repository of the Wannier90 code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 45 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Valerio primarily contributed to the core code of the Wannier90 project. Their work focused on integrating the SCDM (Selected Columns of Density Matrix) method into the pw2wannier90 module and associated source code. These changes included modifying the input parameters, reading and processing data, as well as the integration of symmetry considerations within the disentanglement routines. They also updated and refined existing source files, such as those related to overlap calculations.
wannier90condensed-matter-physicswannierwannier-functions
VVitale/wannier90
Jan 2018 - Feb 2024
Official repository of the Wannier90 code
Contributions:3 PRs, 112 pushes, 20 branches in 6 years 2 months
wannier90
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