Domenico Corona

Biographie

Domenico Corona was born in Rome in 1998, and he graduated high school from the Liceo Classico “Francesco Vivona”. He received his B.Sc. from the Sapienza University of Rome in 2020, with a thesis in Solid State Chemistry supervised by Prof. Dr. Sergio Brutti. DC earned his M.Sc. from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2022, with a thesis in Solid State Physics supervised by Prof. Dr. Olivia Pulci and Dr. Francesco Buonocore. DC obtained his M.Eng. from the TH Wildau (DE) in 2023, with a thesis in Nano- und Oberflächenphysik supervised by Prof. Dr. Carolin Schmitz-Antoniak and Prof. Dr. Olivia Pulci.

In 2022, DC was a Research Intern at the Laboratory of High Performance Computing of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (IT); working on solid-state electrolytes interfaces with Dr. Francesco Buonocore and Dr. Massimo Celino.

In 2023, DC was a MSCA Early Stage Researcher at the Quantum Systems and Nanomaterials Group of the University of Exeter (UK) and at MaxLLG Ltd., within the frame of the DiSeTCom Project (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018, G.A. ID: 823728); working on opto-valleytronics in Xenes with Prof. Dr. Mikhail Portnoi and Dr. Eros Mariani.

Since 2025, DC has been Visiting Doctoral Student at the Laboratory of Theory and Simulation of Materials of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) and at the Laboratory for Materials Simulations of the Paul Scherrer Institut.

Since 2021, DC has been a Scientific Associate at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, CSN4); since 2022, he has been a PhD Student in Physics, member of the Condensed Matter Theory Group and of the University Centre for Computation in Science and Technology (CAST) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, concurrently a Young Researcher at the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF) and a Member of the Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP). DC is the winner of 6 merit-based scholarships as Teaching and Laboratory Assistant; of an Erasmus Scholarship; and the PI of 3 CINECA ISCRA Projects.