Professor Carmine Autieri awarded the Stefan Pieńkowski Prize 2024

We are pleased to announce that Professor Carmine Autieri, our colleague and MagTOP employee, has been awarded the Stefan Pieńkowski Scientific Prize in 2024 by the 3rd Division of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Natural Sciences). We sincerely congratulate the laureate and wish him continued fruitful work.

Prof. Autieri was wawrded his Ph.D. in Physics in 2012 by the University of Salerno, Italy. From 2012 to 2018, he held postdoc positions at the Jülich Forschungszentrum (Germany), Uppsala University (Sweden), and SPIN-CNR (Italy). In June 2018, he joined the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences in the International Centre for Interfacing Magnetism and Superconductivity with Topological Matter - MagTop as an assistant professor specializing in ab initio methods. On February 1, 2022, he became Group Leader and Associate Professor. He received both Polish and Italian habilitations in 2020. Carmine Autieri has been an invited speaker at many  international conferences, supervised multiple Ph.D. students and hosted numerous internship students. In 2015, he received the MARIE CURIE Fellowship in the NU-MATHIMO project (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP). He was also awarded the "Della Riccia" fellowship (2012), supported by Carl Tryggers Stiftelse (2014, 2015) and won a SEED project grant from CNR Italy (2018).

His research focuses on the chemical and physical properties of materials, particularly on surfaces and at interfaces. Prof. Autieri has been exploring the interplay of magnetism, spin-orbit coupling, and crystal symmetries through first-principles studies, addressing phenomena of band topology, the Rashba effect, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, and transport properties including the Anomalous, Quantum Anomalous, and Quantum Spin Hall effects. By late 2024, he has authored over 100 publications, cited almost 2000 times with a h-index of 26.