CURRICULUM VITAE - Condensed Matter Theory Group

Personal Details:
Name: Lady-Andrea Salguero
CURRICULUM VITAE
Designation: Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Craig Fennie’s group
Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University
Nationality: Colombian
Date of Birth: January 12, 1981
Present Address: 212 Clark Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, 14853
E-mail: ls538@cornell.edu
Education:
• Ph.D. in theoretical physics,
Thesis defended the 21st January 2009
Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Goethe University,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• M.Sc. in theoretical physics,
National University of Colombia,
Bogota, Colombia
• Undergraduate Physics,
National University of Colombia,
Bogota, Colombia
Research Experience:
• Spin-Orbit effects on tungsten thin-films (at the moment).
• Ph.D. Research student (Dec. 2004-2008): under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Maria-Roser Valentí.
• Summer school research project (September 2008): performed at the Technical University of Denmark.
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• Winter school research project (November 2002): under the supervision of Dr. Armando A. Aligia.
Instituto Balseiro, Atomic Center of San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.
• MSc. research project (Aug. 2003- Nov.2004): under the supervision of Dr. Noboru Takeuchi and Dr.
Jairo A. Rodriguez. National University of Colombia.
Awards:
• MSc scholarship given by good undergraduate’s GPA
• Outstanding MSc thesis
• PhD scholarship
Scientific Research Expertise:
• Strong background in density-functional theory, solid state physics, electronic structure theory,
magnetism and correlated systems.
• Experience with first-principles calculations based on Density Functional Theory. Applications
include electronic, structural and magnetic properties of metal-organic compounds, coordination
polymers and inorganic compounds such as dilute magnets and nitrides.
• Experience with large-scale ab initio calculations.
• Experience with FP-LAPW (Wien2k) and LMTO/NMTO (Stuttgart code) methods.
• Experience with molecular dynamics.
• Experience with tight-binding fitting.
• Experience with Green’s functions, perturbation theory, exact diagonalization in small clusters.
Effective Hamiltonians (Isotropic, anisotropic and antisymmetric Heisenberg, Anderson, Hubbard,
J1/J2 model).
Publications:
1. DFT based screening of novel alkali-transition metal borohydrides - a computational materials design
project, J.S. Hummelshoj, D.D. Landis, J.Voss, T. Jiang,...L.A. Salguero, ... and other 30 authors
(participants at the CAMD summer school), accepted in J. Chem. Phys.
2. Tetrahedra system Cu4OCl6daca4: magnetic exchange against molecular vibrations, O. Zaharko, J.
Mesot, L.A. Salguero, R. Valentí, M. Zbiri, M. Johnson, Y. Filinchuk, B. Klemke, K. Kiefer, M.
Mys’kiv, T. Strassle, H. Mutka, Phys. Rev. B 77, 224408 (2008).
3. Field-induced phase transition in a metalorganic spin-dimer system a potential model system to study Bose-
Einstein condensation of magnons , Y. Tsui, A. Bruehl, K. Removic-Langer, V. Pashchenko, B. Wolf, G.
Donath, A. Pikul, T. Kretz, H.-W. Lerner, M. Wagner, A. Salguero, T. Saha-Dasgupta, B. Rahaman,
R. Valentí, M. Lang Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 310 , 1319 (2007) .
4. Microscopic modelling of a spin crossover transition, H. O. Jeschke, L. A. Salguero, B. Rahaman, C.
Buchsbaum, V. Pashchenko, M. U. Schmidt, T. Saha-Dasgupta, and R. Valentí, New J. Phys. 9,
448 (2007).
5. Cu-based metalorganic systems: an ab initio study of the electronic structure, L. A. Salguero, H. O.
Jeschke, B. Rahaman, T. Saha-Dasgupta, C. Buchsbaum, M. U. Schmidt, and R. Valentí, New
J. Phys. 9, 26 (2007).
6. Classical and ab initio preparation of reliable structures for polymeric coordination compounds, H. O.
Jeschke, L. A. Salguero, R. Valentí, C. Buchsbaum, M. U. Schmidt, and M. Wagner, Comptes
Rendus Chimie 10, 82 (2007).
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7. Modified 1,4-hydroquinone ligands bridging Cu(II) ions Building blocks for a new class of quantum magnets,
B. Wolf, A. Brhl, V. Pashchenko, K. Removic-Langer, T. Kretz, J. W. Bats, H.-W. Lerner, M.
Wagner, A. Salguero, T. Saha-Dasgupta, B. Rahaman, R. Valentí and M. Lang, Comptes Rendus
Chimie 10, 109 (2007).
8. First principles calculations of the ground state properties and structural phase transformation in ZrN,
L.A. Salguero, L. Mancera, J.A. Rodriguez and N. Takeuchi, physica status solidi (b), 243, 1808,
(2006).
9. Magnetotransport through a quantum wire side coupled to a quantum dot, A.A. Aligia and L.A. Salguero,
Phys. Rev. B, 70, 075307 (2004).
Article selected for the August 30, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
Lady-Andrea Salguero, Dr.
e-mail:ls538@cornell.edu
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