Iām 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