Umberto is Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Palermo and Group leader at the Max Planck Institute For the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) of Hamburg Germany. He obtained his PhD in 2008 (UniGE), was postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Basque Country in Spain (2010-2016) and Group Leader at MPSD in Germany (since 2017). He authored 80+ papers on high impact journals attracting 4000+ citations and EU funds for € 500K+. His research interest lie at the intersection between condensed matter, quantum chemistry, strong-field physics and strong light-matter coupling. He has made extensive contributions to the development of theoretical and ab-initio numerical methods, significantly advancing our understanding of phenomena in this interdisciplinary field.
Research
Research lines of Umberto De Giovannini's papers on this site
Interests
- Strong light-matter coupling
- Cavity and Floquet material engineering
- Non-linear spectroscopy
- Ab-initio electronic structure
Education
- 2008PhD in Physics
University of Genova - 2004M.S. in Physics
University of Genova
Projects
Publications 24
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- Polarized Houston State Framework for Nonequilibrium Driven Open Quantum SystemsPreprint Preprint, arXiv:2507.20160 (2025)
2024
- Tracking electron motion within and outside of Floquet bands from attosecond pulse trains in time-resolved ARPES.Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal (2024)
2023
- Are There Universal Signatures of Topological Phases in High-Harmonic Generation? Probably Not.Physical Review X 13, 031011 (2023)
- Attosecond magnetization dynamics in non-magnetic materials driven by intense femtosecond lasersnpj Computational Materials 9, 39 (2023)
- Band Nonlinearity-Enabled Manipulation of Dirac Nodes, Weyl Cones, and Valleytronics with Intense Linearly Polarized LightNano Letters 23, 7568--7575 (2023)
- Eliminating Artificial Boundary Conditions in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Using Fourier Contour DeformationJournal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2023)
- Floquet band engineering in actionScience Bulletin (2023)
- Floquet engineering of magnetism in topological insulator thin filmsElectronic Structure 5, 024002 (2023)
- Floquet engineering with quantum optimal control theoryNew Journal of Physics (2023)
- New perspectives in time-resolved laser-induced electron diffractionJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 56, 054002 (2023)
- Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Attosecond Science and TechnologySpringer Proceedings in Physics, 187--194 (2023)
- Quantum correlation of electron and ion energy in the dissociative strong-field ionization of H2Physical Review Research 5, 013123 (2023)
- Simple extension of the plane-wave final state in photoemission: Bringing understanding to the photon-energy dependence of two-dimensional materialsPhysical Review Research 5, 033075 (2023)
- Time-based Chern number in periodically driven systems in the adiabatic limitPhysical Review Research 5, 013081 (2023)
2022
- Controlling Floquet states on ultrashort time scalesNature Communications 13, 7103 (2022)
- Attosecond dynamics of core excitonsAdvances in Ultrafast Condensed Phase Physics III 12132, 1213202--1213202-6 (2022)
- First-principles modelling for time-resolved ARPES under different pump-probe conditionsJournal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 254, 147152 (2022)
- Floquet engineering the band structure of materials with optimal control theoryPhysical Review Research 4, 033213 (2022)
- Infrared plasmons propagate through a hyperbolic nodal metalScience Advances 8 (2022)
- Multiple mobile excitons manifested as sidebands in quasi-one-dimensional metallic TaSe3Nature Materials 21, 423–429 (2022)
- Probing phonon dynamics with multidimensional high harmonic carrier-envelope-phase spectroscopyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2204219119 (2022)
- Simulating Terahertz Field-Induced Ferroelectricity in Quantum Paraelectric SrTiO3Physical Review Letters 129, 167401 (2022)
- Time- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of strong-field light-dressed solids: Prevalence of the adiabatic band picturePhysical Review Research 4, 033101 (2022)
- Ultrafast dynamics of adenine following XUV ionizationJournal of Physics: Photonics (2022)