Maria Victoria (Marivi) Fernández-Serra is a Spanish

condensed matter physicist Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the su ...

known for her research applying density functional theory to the structure and dynamics of water. Other topics in her research include supercomputer simulations of the

quantum-mechanical Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, qua ...

behavior of liquid-metal interfaces, the design of semiconductor-based nanowires, and the development of sensors for detecting dark matter. She is a professor of physics and astronomy at

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

Education and career

Fernández-Serra earned a bachelor's and master's degree in 1999 and 2001, respectively, at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She completed her Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Cambridge. After postdoctoral research in Lyon, France, at

Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (french: link=no, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, UCBL) is one of the three public universities of Lyon, France. It is named after the French physiologist Claude Bernard and specialises in science and technolo ...

and

Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics * Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentrici ...

, she joined the Stony Brook University faculty in 2008.

Recognition

Fernández-Serra was a winner of the Early Career Award of the United States Department of Energy, in 2010. In 2020, Fernández-Serra was named a

Fellow of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics. The following lists are divided chronologically by the year of designation. * List of American Physic ...

(APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Computational Physics, "for extending density functional theory in groundbreaking work on the structure and dynamics of complex materials, and especially for improving understanding of the electronic structure of water, including ice and interfaces".

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