Talks & Presentations

Seminars, contributed talks and posters at international conferences.

Invited talks

Excitonic response in TMD heterostructures from first principles: impact of stacking, twisting, and interlayer distance R. Reho, A. R. Botello-Méndez, D. Sangalli, M. J. Verstraete, L. Wirtz, Z. Zanolli MRS Fall Meeting, Warsaw, PL · 15–18 Sep 2025

Density functional Bogoliubov–de Gennes theory for superconductors implemented in the SIESTA code R. Reho, N. Wittemeier, A. Kole PSI-K 2025, Lausanne, CH · Finalist, CECI Award · 25–28 Aug 2025

Invited seminars

DFT for superconductors: theory and implementation in the SIESTA code R. Reho, N. Wittemeier, A. H. Kole, P. Ordejón, Z. Zanolli Physics Seminars, Limpertsberg, Luxembourg · 26 Feb 2025

DFT for superconductors: theory and implementation in the SIESTA code R. Reho, N. Wittemeier, A. H. Kole, P. Ordejón, Z. Zanolli Debye Lunch Lecture, Utrecht University, NL · 11 Dec 2024

DFT for superconductors: theory and implementation in the SIESTA code R. Reho, N. Wittemeier, A. H. Kole, P. Ordejón, Z. Zanolli ETSF Webinar, online · 22 Nov 2024

Optical properties of TMD van der Waals heterostructures R. Reho, A. R. Botello-Méndez, M. J. Verstraete, Z. Zanolli KNCV-CTC Seminars, University of Twente, NL · 20 Sep 2023

Real-time photoluminescence from first principles: application to van der Waals heterostructures R. Reho, A. R. Botello-Méndez, D. Sangalli, M. J. Verstraete, Z. Zanolli Informal ETSF workshop, Amsterdam, NL · 17 May 2023

Contributed oral presentations

Electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional materials: towards exciton dynamics R. Reho (University of Luxembourg) Frascati, IT · 23 Apr 2026

From ab initio to tight-binding framework: model exciton interaction in materials S. T. Bos, R. Reho, Z. Zanolli TIMES Workshop, Belfast, UK · 7–10 Apr 2025

Controlling light–matter interaction in TMD heterostructures R. Reho, A. R. Botello-Méndez, D. Sangalli, M. J. Verstraete, Z. Zanolli NWO Chains, Veldhoven, NL · 3–4 Dec 2024

Proximity-induced superconductivity in PbTe/Pb via first principles R. Reho, A. R. Botello-Méndez, Z. Zanolli QuMaT yearly meeting, Enschede, NL · 11–12 Nov 2024

DFT for superconductors: theory and implementation in the SIESTA code R. Reho, N. Wittemeier, A. H. Kole, P. Ordejón, Z. Zanolli ETSF electron–phonon collaboration team workshop, Louvain-la-Neuve, BE · 23–25 Sep 2024

Excitonic response in TMD heterostructures from first principles: impact of stacking, twisting and interlayer distance R. Reho, A. R. Botello-Méndez, D. Sangalli, M. J. Verstraete, Z. Zanolli CECAM workshop Frontiers in many-body excited-state dynamics from first principles, Lausanne, CH · 15–17 Jul 2024

Excitonic responses in MoS₂/WS₂ and MoSe₂/WSe₂ heterostructures from first principles: impact of stacking order and interlayer distance R. Reho, A. R. Botello-Méndez, D. Sangalli, M. J. Verstraete, Z. Zanolli 27th ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations, Marseille, FR · 3–7 Jun 2024

Optical properties of van der Waals TMD heterostructures from first principles R. Reho, Z. Zanolli DPG Spring Meeting, Berlin, DE · 22–26 Mar 2024

Density functional theory for superconductors: theory and implementation in the SIESTA code R. Reho, N. Wittemeier, A. H. Kole, P. Ordejón, Z. Zanolli NWO Physics, Veldhoven, NL · 23–24 Jan 2024

Identification of high-energy excitations in two-dimensional topological Bi₂Se₃ nanoplatelets R. Reho, P. M. M. C. de Melo, A. R. Botello-Méndez, M. J. Verstraete, D. Vanmaekelbergh, Z. Zanolli QuMat meeting, Nijmegen, NL · 22–25 Oct 2023

Absorption and emission in van der Waals heterostructures from first principles R. Reho, A. R. Botello-Méndez, M. J. Verstraete, Z. Zanolli Colloquium HOWDI, Porquerolles, FR · 8–12 May 2023

First-principles topological superconductivity R. Reho, A. Kole, N. Wittemeier, Z. Zanolli QuMat kick-off meeting, Utrecht, NL · 26 Oct 2022

Trions and biexcitons from first principles: questions and future work R. Reho, P. M. M. C. de Melo, M. J. Verstraete, H. Stoof, Z. Zanolli Informal ETSF workshop ETSFCoimbra2021, University of Coimbra, PT · 13–15 Dec 2021

Quasi-equilibrium states in heterobilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides R. Reho, P. M. M. C. de Melo, M. J. Verstraete, Z. Zanolli ETSF Young Researcher Meeting ETSFYRM2021, Cagliari, IT · 6–10 Sep 2021

Posters

Optical properties of hBN point defects as qubits S. T. Bos, R. Reho, A. R. Botello-Méndez, Z. Zanolli 27th ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations, Marseille, FR · 3–7 Jun 2024

Ab initio calculations on the band structure of TMDs R. Reho, P. M. M. C. de Melo, M. J. Verstraete, Z. Zanolli 25th Workshop on Electronic Excitations, Leuven, BE · 13–17 Jun 2022

Pressure-induced phase transitions in Fe₄N S. Barua, B. S. Biswas, A. C. Burgess, J. Dolado, A. Elomrani, W. Heyvaert, Sri K., V. Landgraf, L. MacEnulty, S. Marek, A. R. Mishra, A. A. Nair, R. Reho, A. Subrati, F. Tabatabaei, G. E. Tekneci, S. Van Dyck, A. Vázquez-López, M. Warrier, S. Cottenier 20th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science (ICTP), Trieste, IT · 23–25 Feb 2021