Invited Speaker: Dr. Manuel dos Santos Dias

Manuel dos Santos Dias received his PhD in 2012 from the University of Warwick, and from 2012 to 2022 was based at the Peter Grünberg Institut of Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. In 2022 he became a research scientist at STFC Daresbury Laboratory, working in the CCP9 project "Computational Electronic Structure of Condensed Matter" (www.ccp9.ac.uk) and towards the understanding of collective magnetic excitations as probed in large experimental facilities such as ISIS or Diamond. The main theme of his research is the interplay between the electronic spin and orbital degrees of freedom, through either spin-orbit coupling or non-collinear magnetism, and its consequences for the electronic and magnetic ground states, topological properties, spin dynamics, transport, and spectroscopy. Including density functional theory, he employs and develops a broad range of methods in order to cover the different length and timescales for diverse materials systems.