MARIVI FERNANDEZ-SERRA
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
marivi.fernandez-serra@stonybrook.edu | (631)-632-8244, Physics B-139
Research Group Website | Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2024 Aug 29)
Biography
Marivi Fernandez-Serra is a Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University. She received
her PhD in 2005 from the University of Cambridge. After this she worked as a postdoc
at CECAM (Center for Atomic and Molecular Simulations) in Lyon, France. Her research
is in the field of computational condensed matter physics. She develops and applies
methods to study the atomic and electronic dynamics of complex materials. One of her
main research areas is the study of fundamental properties of liquid water using quantum
mechanical simulations. Currently, research efforts in her group are focused on developing
new exchange and correlation functionals using machine learning, and on simulations
of the electrochemical interface. She also works with high energy theorists developing
methods to identify possible Dark Matter detection mechanisms using electronic structure
methods. She was elected APS Fellow in 2021 and is the current elected secretary of
the Division of Computational Physics of the APS.