Luca Grisanti, PhD worked at the intersection of computational materials science, chemical physics, and biophysics. He developed and applied computer-simulation methods to study how the atomic structure and dynamics of molecular and hybrid materials shape their electronic, optical, and energy-transfer properties, including charge and exciton transport, electron–phonon interactions, and theoretical spectroscopy.
From 2021, he led the Croatian Science Foundation project HYMO4EXNOMOMA, combining excited-state calculations, molecular dynamics, model Hamiltonians, and machine learning to predict optical properties and exciton dynamics in organic and biomolecular materials. He also contributed to research on amyloid-protein fluorescence, Förster energy transfer, natural anthocyanin dyes, and light-emitting two-dimensional halide perovskites.
Luca was a research associate in the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group / Modelling and Theory of Materials Group from October 2018 to November 2022. He currently works at CNR-IOM, Italy.