The interaction of materials with electromagnetic fields gives rise to excited-electron populations that evolve and decay over ultrafast (femtosecond to picosecond) time scales. These dynamic processes and the energy redistribution of the photoexcited charge carriers following the photoexcitation lie at the very heart of some of the most interesting light-induced physical phenomena, such as photocatalysis, photosynthesis, solar energy conversion and many more.

The first-principles school on electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling  based on Quantum ESPRESSO (QE) software has successfully ended. The event  was, for the first-time, entirely held on-line.

The  school  aimed to  introduce students and young researchers to materials and molecular modelling with Quantum ESPRESSO (QE), covering basic concepts, recent advances and developments, with emphasis on density-functional-theory (DFT) based methods and High-Performance Computing (HPC).