Fixed-term assistant professor
Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT)
Profile
Biography
Michele Re Fiorentin got his Ph.D. in theoretical Physics at the University of Southampton (UK), focusing on the development of Quantum Field Theory models in high energy Physics, supported by numerical simulations. From 2017 to 2023, he worked as postdoc researcher at the Center for Sustainable Future Technologies (CSFT) of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Since 2023, he has worked as assistant professor at Politecnico di Torino. His activities are devoted to the nanoscale modelling of materials applied to new technologies for sustainable energy and pollution reduction. In particular, in his research, he uses Density Functional Theory to study new materials for selective electroreduction of carbon dioxide and many-body perturbation theory to investigate the excited-state properties of novel 2-dimensional materials with possible application in photovoltaics and photocatalysis. MRF has collaborated to the realization of the 2021 YAMBO School and has been co-supervisor of masters and Ph.D. students at the Politecnico di Torino, University of Torino and Università di Roma "Tor Vergata". He was P.I. of the ISCRA-B project SPHERE, devoted to the study of electronic and optical properties of 2D systems, specifically addressing single photon emission, energy harvesting and exciton recombination, and ISCRA-B project GOLEM, on ab initio simulations of the optoelectronic properties of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) through the creation of a statistical ensemble of amorphous rGO structures at various stoichiometry with DFT and post-DFT methods (GW+BSE) to investigate the shift in the absorption spectra and photoluminescence of rGO with the degree of oxidation.
Scientific branch
(Area 0002 - Physical sciences)
Skills
ERC sectors
Open badges
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Learning to Teach (L2T)
Issued by Politecnico di Torino on 06-06-2024
Teaching
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Ingegneria Elettronica, delle Telecomunicazioni e Fisica. Componente invitato
Teachings
PhD
- Physics of electrified interfaces. A.A. 2025/26, FISICA. Main teacher
- Physics of electrified interfaces. A.A. 2023/24, FISICA. Main teacher
Bachelor of Science
- Fisica II. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Onde coerenti: dalle applicazioni ottiche alla computazione quantistica. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratorio di fisica. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Physics II. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Onde coerenti: laser, olografia, teletrasporto. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratorio di fisica. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Onde coerenti: laser, olografia, teletrasporto. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratorio di fisica. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Physics II. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Onde coerenti: laser, olografia, teletrasporto. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratorio di fisica. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Physics II. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratorio di fisica. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Physics II. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Fisica II. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA DELL'AUTOVEICOLO. Collaboratore del corso
- Physics II. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Fisica II. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA DELL'AUTOVEICOLO. Collaboratore del corso
- Physics II. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA FISICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Fisica I. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Fisica II. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA DELL'AUTOVEICOLO. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Institute
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- PREDICT - Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction Enhanced by Device Integration and Computational Techniques, (2025-2029) - Componente gruppo di Ricerca
UE-funded research - HE - Innovative Europe - European Innovation Council (EIC)
Supervised PhD students
- Wei Wang. Programme in Scienza E Tecnologia Dei Materiali (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Michele Giovanni Bianchi. Programme in Fisica (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Clara Salvini. Programme in Scienza E Tecnologia Dei Materiali (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Unraveling CO2 Reduction Mechanisms on Selective Electrocatalysts: Computational Insights for Efficient Valorization
Publications
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- Tizei, Luiz H. G.; Re Fiorentin, Michele; Dursap, Thomas; van den Berg, Theodorus M.; ... (2025)
Optical Absorption in Hexagonal-Diamond Si and Ge Nanowires: Insights from STEM-EELS Experiments and Ab Initio Theory. In: NANO LETTERS, vol. 25, pp. 8604-8611. ISSN 1530-6984
Contributo su Rivista - Blundo, E.; Tuzi, F.; Cuccu, M.; Re Fiorentin, M.; Pettinari, G.; Patra, A.; Cianci, S.; ... (2025)
Giant Light Emission Enhancement in Strain-Engineered InSe/MS2 (M = Mo or W) van der Waals Heterostructures. In: NANO LETTERS, vol. 25, pp. 3375-3382. ISSN 1530-6984
Contributo su Rivista - Re Fiorentin, M.; Risplendi, F.; Palummo, M.; Cicero, G. (2025)
Multiple Linear Dichroism Inversions in SnO Monolayers for Polarization-Sensitive UV Photodetection: An Ab Initio Investigation. In: ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS, vol. 8, pp. 2374-2381. ISSN 2574-0970
Contributo su Rivista - Re Fiorentin, Michele; Risplendi, Francesca; Salvini, Clara; Zeng, Juqin; Cicero, ... (2024)
Silver Electrodes Are Highly Selective for CO in CO2 Electroreduction due to Interplay between Voltage Dependent Kinetics and Thermodynamics. In: THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, vol. 15, pp. 11538-11545. ISSN 1948-7185
Contributo su Rivista - Birello, Piero; Re Fiorentin, Michele; Wang, Boxuan; Colizza, Vittoria; Valdano, Eugenio (2024)
Estimates of the reproduction ratio from epidemic surveillance may be biased in spatially structured populations. In: NATURE PHYSICS, vol. 20, pp. 1204-1210. ISSN 1745-2473
Contributo su Rivista - Salomone, M.; Re Fiorentin, M.; Risplendi, F.; Raffone, F.; Sommer, T.; Garcia-Melchor, ... (2024)
Efficient mapping of CO adsorption on Cu1−xMx bimetallic alloys via machine learning. In: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY. A. ISSN 2050-7496
Contributo su Rivista - Bianchi, MICHELE GIOVANNI; Risplendi, Francesca; RE FIORENTIN, Michele; Cicero, Giancarlo (2024)
Addressing the effects of gas adsorption on monolayers beyond charge population analysis: the case of WS2. In: NPJ COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS, vol. 10. ISSN 2057-3960
Contributo su Rivista - Bianchi, Michele Giovanni; Risplendi, Francesca; Re Fiorentin, Michele; Cicero, Giancarlo (2024)
Engineering the Electrical and Optical Properties of WS2 Monolayers via Defect Control. In: ADVANCED SCIENCE, vol. 11. ISSN 2198-3844
Contributo su Rivista - RE FIORENTIN, Michele; Re Fiorentin, Stefano (2023)
Cosmological horizons. In: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 91, pp. 644-652. ISSN 0002-9505
Contributo su Rivista - Fortunati, Alessia; Risplendi, Francesca; RE FIORENTIN, Michele; Cicero, Giancarlo; ... (2023)
Understanding the role of imidazolium-based ionic liquids in the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction. In: COMMUNICATIONS CHEMISTRY, vol. 6. ISSN 2399-3669
Contributo su Rivista - Palummo, Maurizia; RE FIORENTIN, Michele; Yamashita, Koichi; Castelli, Ivano E.; Giorgi, ... (2023)
Study of Optoelectronic Features in Polar and Nonpolar Polymorphs of the Oxynitride Tin-Based Semiconductor InSnO2N. In: THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, vol. 14, pp. 1548-1555. ISSN 1948-7185
Contributo su Rivista - Fortunati, Alessia; José Rubio, María; Iliev, Boyan; Schubert, Thomas J. S.; Risplendi, ... (2022)
Understanding the role of imidazolium-based ionic liquids in the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction: an experimental and theoretical study. In: GRICU 2022, Ischia (Italia)
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Valdano, Eugenio; Fiorentin, Michele Re; Poletto, Chiara; Colizza, Vittoria (2018)
Epidemic Threshold in Continuous-Time Evolving Networks. In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 120. ISSN 0031-9007
Contributo su Rivista - Di Bari, P; Re Fiorentin, M (2017)
A full analytic solution of SO(10)-inspired leptogenesis. In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, vol. 2017. ISSN 1029-8479
Contributo su Rivista - Re Fiorentin, M.; Niro, V.; Fornengo, N. (2016)
A consistent model for leptogenesis, dark matter and the IceCube signal. In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, vol. 2016. ISSN 1029-8479
Contributo su Rivista - Re Fiorentin, M. (2016)
Strong thermal leptogenesis and the N2-dominated scenario. In: ICHEP 2014, pp. 256-261. ISSN 2405-6014
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - RE FIORENTIN, Michele (2016)
FaRe: A Mathematica package for tensor reduction of Feynman integrals. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C, vol. 27. ISSN 0129-1831
Contributo su Rivista - Di Bari, P; Marzola, L; Re Fiorentin, M (2015)
Decrypting SO(10)-inspired leptogenesis. In: NUCLEAR PHYSICS. B, vol. 893, pp. 122-157. ISSN 0550-3213
Contributo su Rivista - Fiorentin, M. R.; King, S. E. (2015)
Neutrino parameters and the N2-dominated scenario of leptogenesis. In: 1st Prospects in Neutrino Physics Conference, NuPhys 2013, Institute of Physics (IoP), gbr, 2013. ISSN 1742-6588
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Di Bari, P; King, Se; Re Fiorentin, M (2014)
Strong thermal leptogenesis and the absolute neutrino mass scale. In: JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, vol. 2014. ISSN 1475-7516
Contributo su Rivista