Discovery and design of new enabling materials is one of the key, cross-cutting research areas called for in every energy-related basic science challenge.

The main aim of my work is to synthesize new inorganic compounds (new oxides, oxo-halides, pnictides, chalcogenides, intermettallics……) and to correlate their chemical and physical properties to their compositions and crystal structures. 

My research involves:

•  searching for novel low-dimensional materials with interesting electronic properties emerging from a competition between different electronic states or a suppression of the electronic order (charge, orbital or spin).
• exploratory synthesis of oxides, metal chalcogenides and pnictides phases;
• superconducting behavior in oxide, pnictide, chalcogenide and intermetallic systems exhibiting competing interactions and in narrow gap semiconductors.
• physical properties of novel defected hexagonal perovskites resulting from the partial introduction of fluorine anions in their anionic lattice.

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