Simone Taioli is a senior scientist at ECT*. He graduated summa cum laude in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Bologna (2000). Dr. Taioli completed a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering (Bologna, 2004) for the development of a theoretical method to simulate the Auger spectra of molecules and solids and a Ph.D. in Physics (University of Trento, 2013) for the study of the nucleosynthesis of chemical elements in evolved stars using typical methods of atomic and condensed matter physics. As a post-doctoral researcher, he held research fellowships at UCL (UK) and the University of Sheffield, where he worked on the first-principles simulation of electronic, optical, and thermodynamic properties of materials, even under extreme conditions. He held visiting positions at the Sorbonne Université, Charles University, the École Normal Supérieure de Lyon, UCL, Gdańsk Tech, and the University of Murcia. Dr. Taioli received five habilitations as an Associate and Full Professor of Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics in France and Italy. He also held professorships at the Peter the Great Polytechnic University of St. Petersburg and the Gdansk University of Technology. He taught courses in many-body physics and scattering theory. His current research interests include the development of novel computational many-body techniques for the study of condensed matter systems and relativistic methods for estimating nuclear decay in astrophysical scenarios and hadron therapy for curing cancer.
