Associate professor: Zeila Zanolli
Utrecht University
Condensed Matter and Interfaces group
Email: z.zanolli@uu.nl
Short Biography
Zeila Zanolli focuses on the first principles simulation of quantum materials, covering electronic, magnetic, transport and many-body exciton physics. She demonstrated that magnetism and topological features can be controlled by proximity interaction at interfaces. Her team develops and uses real-time dynamics of many-body excitations to predict spin decoherence mechanisms. She was a recipient of a Ramon y Cajal (2017) and Marie Curie IEF (2012) fellowships. She was elected fellow (2017) and board member (treasurer 2018) of the Young Academy of Europe, and steering committee member of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (2018).
Project involvement
Theory of topological insulator/X interfaces, interfacial effects on band structure
Project Leader for affilated project with PhD student Arnold Kole
Topological Superconductivity from First-Principles
Project Leader for affilated project with PhD student Riccardo Reho
First-principles methods for superconducting and optical properties of quantum materials
Publications in QuMat
| Characterization of the edge states in colloidal Bi2Se3 platelets Jesper R. Moes, Jara F. Vliem, Pedro M. M. C. de Melo, Thomas C. Wigmans, Andrés R. Botello-Méndez, Rafael G. Mendes, Ella F. van Brenk, Ingmar Swart, Lucas Maisel Licerán, Henk T. C. Stoof, Christophe Delerue, Zeila Zanolli, Daniel Vanmaekelbergh Nano Letters 24, 17 5110–5116 (April 2024) Awaiting pillar indexation… |
| Microscopic understanding of the in-plane thermal transport properties of 2H transition metal dichalcogenides, R. Farris, O. Hellman, Z. Zanolli, D. Saleta Reig, S. Varghese, P. Ordejón, K.-J. Tielrooij, M. J. Verstraete Phys. Rev. B 109, 125422 (March 2024) Awaiting pillar indexation… |
| Excitonic response in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures from first principles: Impact of stacking, twisting, and interlayer distance R. Reho, A. R. Botello-Méndez, D. Sangalli, M. J. Verstraete, Zeila Zanolli Phys. Rev. B 110, 035118 (July 2024) |
| Density functional Bogoliubov-de Gennes theory for superconductors implemented in the SIESTA code R. Reho, N. Wittemeier, A. H. Kole, P. Ordejón, Z. Zanolli Phys. Rev. B 110, 134505 (October 2024) |
| The impact of valley profile on the mobility and Kerr rotation of transition metal dichalcogenides Thibault Sohier, Pedro M M C de Melo, Zeila Zanolli, Matthieu Jean Verstraete 2D Mater. 10, 25006 (January 2023) Contributes to: Pillar 4, |
| High-throughput analysis of Fröhlich-type polaron models Pedro Miguel M. C. de Melo, Joao C. de Abreu, Bogdan Guster, Matteo Giantomassi, Zeila Zanolli, Xavier Gonze, Matthieu J. Verstraete npj Computational Materials 9, 147 (August 2023) Contributes to: Pillar M & T, |
| Carbynes connected to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as potential carriers of diffuse interstellar bands Zeila Zanolli; Osman Barış Malcıoğlu; Jean-Christophe Charlier Astronomy & Astrophysics 675, L9 (July 2023) Awaiting pillar indexation… |
| Independent and coherent transitions between antiferromagnetic states of few-molecule systems Claire Besson, Philipp Stegmann, Michael Schnee, Zeila Zanolli, Simona Achilli, Nils Wittemeier, Asmus Vierck, Robert Frielinghaus, Paul Kögerler, Janina Maultzsch, Pablo Ordejón, Claus M. Schneider, Alfred Hucht, Jürgen König, Carola Meyer Physical Review B 107, 245414 (June 2023) Contributes to: Pillar 2, |
| A pre-time-zero spatiotemporal microscopy technique for the ultrasensitive determination of the thermal diffusivity of thin films Varghese S, Mehew J D, Block A, Reig D S, Woźniak P, Farris R, Zanolli Z, Ordejón P, Verstraete M J, Van Hulst N F, Tielrooij K-J Review of Scientific Instruments 94(3), 34903 (November 2023) Contributes to: Pillar M & T, |
| Electrical control of spin-polarized topological currents in monolayer WTe2 Jose H. Garcia, Jinxuan You, Mónica García-Mota, Peter Koval, Pablo Ordejón, Ramón Cuadrado, Matthieu J. Verstraete, Zeila Zanolli, Stephan Roche Phys. Rev. B 106, L161410 (October 2022) Awaiting pillar indexation… |
| Tuning the topological band gap of bismuthene with silicon-based substrates Pablo Ordejón Nils Wittemeier and Zeila Zanolli Journal of Physics: Materials 5, 3 (July 2022) Awaiting pillar indexation… |