Dr
Manuel
Dos Santos Dias
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+441925864285
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manuel.dos-santos-dias@stfc.ac.uk
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DL B65A
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Iā€™m based at Daresbury Laboratory, working in the CCP9 project "Computational Electronic Structure of Condensed Matter"ā€‹ and towards the understanding of collective magnetic excitations as probed in large experimental facilities such as ISIS or Diamond. My research is in computational materials modelling, more specifically on the quantum theory of magnetic materials. This is enabled by my expertise in Density Functional Theory (DFT), both as a user and as an expert developer of all-electron codes based on the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green function formalism. The main theme of my research is the interplay between the electronic spin and orbital degrees of freedom, through either spin-orbit coupling or non-collinear magnetism, and its consequences for the electronic and magnetic ground states, topological properties, spin dynamics, transport, and spectroscopy. Including DFT, I employ and develop a broad range of methods in order to cover the different length and timescales in the various material problems that I work on.ā€‹