David Casanova is currently Ikerbasque Research Associate at the Donostia International Physics Center (DICP). His research focuses on the development and implementation of electronic structure for excited states and strongly correlated systems. He is also interested in using these methods to study optoelectronic and magnetic properties of molecular materials and to investigate underlying photophysical processes. Dr. Casanova holds a master degree in Chemistry (U. Girona) and in Physics (U. Barcelona). After his PhD studies in Chemistry, he joined Prof. Head-Gordon’s group at the UC Berkeley as a Fulbright Research Fellow. In 2009, he received a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (U. Complutense Madrid and U. Barcelona) and in 2013 he became Ikerbasque Research Fellow at the U. Basque Country. Since 2018 he is Research Associate at the DIPC. He has published 125 papers (2003-2021), cited 7260 times and his H-index is 37.
About his group
Our research aims to develop new electronic structure models to tackle the study of electronic states of molecules. We apply these methodologies to the study of interesting photophysical processes with potential novel applications in solar energy photoelectric conversion, lighting technologies and in those applications based on the absorption and/or emission of light by molecular systems. Currently, the group is constituted by the IP (David Casanova), 3 post-doc investigators (Claire Tonnelé, Abel Carreras, and Verònica Postils), 4 predoctoral students: Olatz Uranga (since 09/2017), Maria Zubiria (since 11/2018), José Aarón Rodríguez (since 12/2019), Aitor Diaz (since 08/2021) and Antonio Cebreiro (since 09/2021), and 1 master student (Asier Izu). In the last 5 years (2017-2021) we have published 66 papers, two PhD students have graduated under the supervision of the IP.
Recent Publications
- Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 18548 (2021)
- Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 10255 (2021)
- Chem. Sci. 12, 188 (2021)
- Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 22179-22184 (2020)
- Nature 583, 48-54 (2020)