Michele Casula graduated in 2005 at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste. In 2010, he became a permanent research fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), working in the Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique de Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC) at Sorbonne Université, in Paris. Since 2018, he is the head of the theory group of the IMPMC institute.

 

His research is devoted to studying materials with remarkable properties, such as superconductors, transition metal compounds showing topological and spintronic properties, hydrogen-based materials. He developed original algorithms and new approaches in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). Recently, he studied ways of including accurately nuclear quantum effects. His activity is recognized by the condensed matter and quantum chemistry community, with a bibliometric impact of 29 as h-index, and more than 3500 citations (Scholar).

 

In HANAMI, Michele Casula will work in the WP6 work package, with the aim of studying new possibilities for hydrogen storage by using QMC methods. He is one of the developers of the TurboRVB code, in collaboration with Kosuke Nakano at NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan.