Bio
Professor Catherine Stampfl received a PhD in physics from La Trobe University in 1990. She then moved to the United States where she worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Germany. Before her return to Australia in 2003 she worked at Northwestern University.
Awards, Honours and Recognition
- 2023 — Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship
- 2021 — Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales
- 2019 — Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
- 2018 — Deputy Champion of the team Nanotechnology for Carbon-Neutral Manufacturing, in the Sydney Nano Grand Challenge
- 2003 — ARC Federation Fellow at the University of Sydney
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Research Interests
Professor Stampfl’s project will focus on new catalysts and advanced new materials that speed up carbon dioxide transformation and efficient ammonia production to manufacture sustainable fuels and chemicals and enable new technologies such as for renewable energy. This research will develop a computational platform that uses powerful supercomputers, accurate simulations of atoms and artificial intelligence to overcome challenges in rapidly identifying and testing new materials. The breakthrough theoretical and computational methods expected to be delivered will advance Australia’s renewable energy and emerging quantum technology industries and inform the development of sustainable manufacturing.
Selected Publications
- A Soon, M Todorova, B Delley, C Stampfl, "Thermodynamic stability and structure of copper oxide surfaces: A first-principles investigation", Physical Review B 75 (12), 125420 (Cited: 371, Year: 2007)
- WX Li, C Stampfl, M Scheffler, "Oxygen adsorption on Ag (111): A density-functional theory investigation", Physical Review B 65 (7), 075407 (Cited: 355, Year: 2002)
- C Stampfl, CG Van de Walle, "Theoretical investigation of native defects, impurities, and complexes in aluminum nitride", Physical Review B 65 (15), 155212 (Cited: 339, Year: 2002)
- C Stampfl, W Mannstadt, R Asahi, AJ Freeman, "Electronic structure and physical properties of early transition metal mononitrides: Density-functional theory LDA, GGA, and screened-exchange LDA FLAPW calculations", Physical Review B 63 (15), 155106 (Cited: 595, Year: 2001)
- C Stampfl, CG Van de Walle, "Density-functional calculations for III-V nitrides using the local-density approximation and the generalized gradient approximation", Physical Review B 59 (8), 5521 (Cited: 894, Year: 1999)
- M Bonn, S Funk, C Hess, DN Denzler, C Stampfl, M Scheffler, M Wolf, ..., "Phonon-versus electron-mediated desorption and oxidation of CO on Ru (0001)", Science 285 (5430), 1042-1045 (Cited: 561, Year: 1999)
- C Stampfl, CG Van de Walle, "Energetics and electronic structure of stacking faults in AlN, GaN, and InN", Physical Review B 57 (24), R15052 (Cited: 423, Year: 1998)
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