Renata Wentzcovitch

Renata M. M. Wentzcovitch is a condensed matter physicist, known for her work on simulating materials at the quantum-mechanical level, including participating in the Quantum ESPRESSO project. Her work has focused mainly on materials at extreme pressure and temperature conditions typical of planetary interiors. She is a professor of material science and applied physics and of earth and environmental science at Columbia University.^[1]

Wentzcovitch has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the Columbia University faculty, she worked at the University of Minnesota. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science,^[1] and in 2013 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[2]

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• Renata Wentzcovitch publications indexed by Google Scholar