BIO / CV

BIO

Rickard Armiento is an associate professor of physical modeling at Linköping University in Sweden, in the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology. He received his Ph.D. at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden under the supervision of Prof. Göran Grimvall and co-supervision of Dr. Ann E. Mattsson with a thesis on improved theoretical methods for for computational materials science using density-functional theory (DFT), concluding with the Armiento-​Mattsson exchange-correlation functional (AM05) now implemented in a wide range of software packages. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2006 to join the group of Prof. Stephan Kümmel at the University of Bayreuth in Germany for work on improved methods for calculations of polarizability. He started another postdoc position in 2009 with Prof. Gerbrand Ceder at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA to apply high-throughput electronic structure calculations in the design of energy materials, specifically for piezoelectric, photovoltaic, and thermoelectric applications. In 2012, Dr. Armiento started a position at Linköping University after receiving a 4-year junior researchers grant from the Swedish Research Council. He was appointed Docent in 2015, associate professor in 2017, and since 2020, he is the leader of the Materials Design and Informatics unit. Since 2016, his position also includes an appointment as application expert in big data analytics at the National Supercomputer Centre at Linköping University. Dr. Armiento’s ongoing research projects include high-throughput, AI, and machine-learning methods for materials design, DFT method development, and solid-state defects for quantum information applications. The Materials Design and Informatics unit hosts the high-throughput toolkit (httk; https://httk.org) of open-source software tools for high-throughput calculations and, since 2014, the Anyterial collection of materials databases (https://www.anyterial.se/) which include the ADAQ database, one of the most comprehensive sources of high-throughput data on point defects.

CV

Full name:Rickard Roberto Armiento

Address: Linköping University,
Dept. of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM),
SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden.

Phone: +46 13 281249

Email: rickard.armiento [at] liu.se

Citizenship:Swedish

Present and Previous Positions

  • 2017 – present: Associate Professor (Universitetslektor), Linköping University, Sweden.
  • 2012 – 2017: Assistant Professor (Biträdande universitetslektor), Linköping University, Sweden.
  • 2009 – 2012 Postdoc researcher at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • 2008 – 2009 Postdoc researcher at Department of Physics, Theoretical Physics IV, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
  • 2006 – 2007 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Postdoc at Department of Physics, Theoretical Physics IV, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Education and Degrees

  • Apr. 21, 2015: Docent in Theoretical and Computational Physics, Linköping University, Sweden. Lecture: Designing new materials with supercomputers: theory development and practical application.
  • Oct. 27, 2005: Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.Thesis: The Many-Electron Energy in Density Functional Theory, From Exchange-Correlation Functional Design to Applied Electronic Structure Calculations. Supervisor: Prof. Göran Grimvall, Co-advisor: Ann E. Mattsson, Sandia National Laboratories, USA. Opponent: Prof. Jens K. Nørskov, Technical University of Denmark.
  • Apr. 17, 2003: Licentiate (Teknologie Licentiat) in Theoretical Physics at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Apr. 27, 2000: Master of Science in Engineering Physics (Teknisk Fysik) at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.

Supervision

  • Ongoing:
    • Assistant supervisor of PhD students: Joel Davidsson, Amin Gharavi, Huanyu Li.
  • Past:
    • 2017: Main PhD supervisor of Alexander Lindmaa.
    • 2016: Examination committee member for PhD defense, Uppsala University (Soumyajyoti Haldar).
    • 2015 – 2016: Supervisor of one postdoc for 2 years.
    • 2012 – present: Examiner of 3 master's thesis projects, supervisor of one.

Commissions of Trust and Service to the Community (selected)

  • 2015 – present: Responsible for undergraduate engineering physics study profile: Theory, Modelling and Computation at IFM, LiU.
  • 2005 – present: Referee for Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B (APS). Occasional referee for National Science Foundation, USA, and other journals.

Grants

  • Major grants as PI:
    • 2017 – 2020: VR Projekt Grant, 4 years, Semi-Local Density Functional for Accurate Point Defect Properties in Silicon Carbide and Other Materials
    • 2012 – 2015: VR Junior Researcher Project Grant, 4 years,High-Throughput Computational Design of Transition Metal and Rare-Earth-Based Materials for New Energy Technologies.
  • Grants as Co-Pi:
    • 2016 – 2019: Co-Pi Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC) grant, Main PIs: Anna Delin (KTH) and Igor Abrikosov (LiU), Data-driven computational materials design.
    • 2015 – 2018: Co-Pi on VR Project grant, Main PI: Rositza Yakimova (LiU), 4 year, Engineering of graphene-based materials with advanced properties.
  • Other funding
    • 2014 – 2015: Academic host of Feodor Lynen Fellow Postdoc, Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

Teaching, etc.

  • 2014 – present: Linköping University, Sweden: Organizer and lecturer for undergraduate course Modern Physics II(4 ECTS credits).
  • 2013, 2015: Linköping University, Sweden: Organizer and lecturer for the graduate course Density Functional Theory(7.5 ECTS credits).
  • 2013: Linköping University: Organizer and lecturer for undergraduate course Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics(6 ECTS credits)
  • 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA: Co-organizer and lecturer for parts of the graduate level course Materials at Equilibrium.