Dottorato in FISICA

email: lara.benfatto@uniroma1.it
telefono: 06 4991 4408
edificio: Marconi
stanza: 124

EMPLOYMENTS
2022-present Full Professor in Theoretical Physics of Condensed Matter (02/B2) at the
Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2019-2022 Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics of Condensed Matter (02/B2) at the
Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2009-2019 Researcher (staff) at the CNR-ISC, Rome, Italy.
2006-2009 Young Researcher Grant of the "Enrico Fermi" Center of Rome, Rome, Italy.
2004-2006 Research fellowship (assegno di ricerca) of the CNR-INFM Center for Statistical
Mechanics and Complexity in Rome.
2003-2004 Post-doc position of the Swiss National Foundation (under the MANEP program)
for an inter-university project involving the University of Fribourg, University of Neuchatel, and
University of Geneva.
2001-2003 Post-doc position at the Physics Department of the University of Fribourg, Switzer-
land.

ACADEMIC DEGREES
1998-2001: PhD in Physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza.
30/10/1998: Degree in Physics with full marks and honor (110/110 cum laude) at University of Rome La Sapienza.
1993-1998: Undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza.

More information on funding, students supervising, conference organization and invited talks can be found at the webpage:
https://www.roma1.infn.it/~lbenfat/curriculum.html

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

My activity concerns theoretical problems connected to the physics of correlated electron systems in low dimensions. In particular I have been dealing with the physics of high-temperature cuprate and pnictide superconductors, graphene, and more recently conventional superconductors at strong disorder. The main topics of my work can be summarized as:

- Out-of-equlibrium spectroscopies
- Superconducting collective modes
- Multiband physics in pnictides
- Superconductor-Insulator transition in conventional superconductors
- Kosterlitz-Thouless behavior in quasi-2D systems
- Spectroscopic and optical properties of graphene
- Unconventional magnetism due to Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions

The most recent highlights on my research outputs can be wound on my personal webpage:
https://www.roma1.infn.it/~lbenfat/highlights.html

PUBLICATIONS
I'm author of about 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals. The full list is available on my personal web site:
https://www.roma1.infn.it/~lbenfat/publications.html
Researcher ID: M-8632-2013
ORCID: 0000-0002-6091-3552