Associate professor 
E-mail: cyril.martins@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr
Address: Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Office: Building 3R1b4 - office 204
Phone: +33 (0)5 61 55 60 45
RESEARCH DOMAINS
Main topics: Solid state physics : bulk materials, surfaces and interfaces
Objectives: To determine the experimentally observed (structural, thermal, electric, magnetic, mechanical, optical and spectral) properties from realistic numerical simulations To construct models explaining these properties
Areas of expertise: Ab initio electronic structure calculations (calculation based on the microscopic description of the system without any adjustment parameters) Correlated materials (materials where the electronic Coulomb interaction play a significant role and can even drive the system insulating : the “famous” metal-Mott insulator transition) Spin-orbit coupling (a relativistic correction to the Schrödinger equation which may have tremendous effects on the physical properties in materials based on heavy atoms )
Methods used: Quantum chemistry methods (post-Hartree-Fock), Density functional theory (DFT) Many-body perturbation theory (Green’s function based methods, like GW approximation), Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) and its extensions.
Applications: Electronic structure of the transition metal and their oxides SrVO3, SrTIO3, TiPO4,… Spin-orbit driven metal-Mott insulator transition iridates (Sr2IrO4 and its doped versions), rhodium-based oxide, … Magnetic properties in molecular complex single-molecule magnet, …
WORK EXPERIENCE
Since Sept. 2014: Assistant professor (Maître de Conférences) Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques , Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (France).
Jan. 2014 - Aug. 2014: } Postdoctoral fellow Laboratoire de Physique des Solides , Université Paris 11, Orsay (France).
2012 - 2013: } Research engineer (postodoctoral fellow) CEA/DAM Ile de France , Bruyères-le-Châtel (France).
2011: } Postdoctoral fellow National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Tsukuba (Japan) and Chiba University , Chiba (Japan).
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2007 - 2010: } PhD in condensed matter physics « Docteur de l’Ecole Polytechnique » , Centre de Physique Théorique (CPHT) , Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France).
2004 - 2007: } Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace - SUPAERO (the French Engineering School of Aeronautics and Space), Toulouse (France).