Adriana Moreo

Adriana Moreo is an American physicist and educator, currently a professor in the Physics department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. 

She pioneered advanced computational methods to elucidate how the magnetic and superconducting properties of copper- and iron-based high-temperature superconductors can be controlled by various experimental control parameters. Her research interests include Condensed Matter Physics, Material Science, Computational Physics, High Tc Superconductors, Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems, Manganites Colossal Magnetoresistance, Magnetism, and Numerical Methods.

Moreo attended Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina, from where she obtained her bachelor's degree (1983) and Ph.D. in Physics (1985).

After completing her education, Moreo was a Research Associate in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois (1985-1988.) From 1988-1991, she was a Research Associate in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California. 

In 1992, Moreo joined the faculty of Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, where she served as an Assistant Professor (1992-1994), Associate Professor (1994-1999), and full Professor from 1999 to 2004. 

Since 2004, she is a Professor in the Physics department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. The same year, she also joined the research staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

• 2018: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) "for contributions to condensed matter physics, in particular for the development of advanced computational techniques for strongly correlated electronic systems such as manganites and cuprates."
• 2002: Fellow of the America Physical Society
• 1998: COFRS Award - Florida State University
• 1997: Developing Scholar Award – Florida State University
• 1993: Summer Assistant Professor Research Award – Florida State University
• 1984-1985: Fellow of Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica at the Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentine Atomic Energy Commission

• 2003-2006: National Science Foundation (NSF): "ITR: Study of Complex Nanoclustered States using Novel Efficient Algorithms''. NSF DMR-03-12333. NSF DMR-04-43144 after transfer to UTK. $400,000 for 3 years with Elbio Dagotto.
• 2003-2006: National Science Foundation (NSF): "Correlation Effect and Transport in Nanostructured Materials: An Argentina-Brazil-USA Collaboration''. NSF DMR-03-03348. NSF DMR-04-54504 after transfer to UTK. $155,000 per year with Elbio Dagotto.
• 2001-2004: National Science Foundation (NSF): "Physics of TransitionMetal Oxides and Related Materials.''. NSF DMR-01-22523. $300,000 for three years with Elbio Dagotto.
• 1998-2001: National Science Foundation (NSF): "Computational Studies of Electronic Models for Ladders and ...''. NSF DMR-98-14350. $273,000 for three years with Elbio Dagotto.
• 1997-1999: National Science Foundation (NSF): "Study of Spin Gapped Quasi-One-Dimensional compounds using ESR ...''. $138,061 for two years with Elbio Dagotto, Jack Crow, and L.C. Brunel.
• 1995-1998: National Science Foundation (NSF): "Photoemission Spectra,d-wave Superconductivity ...''. NSF DMR-95-20776. $153,000 for three years with Elbio Dagotto.
• 1994-1997: Office of Naval Research (ONR): "Computational Studies of Strongly Interacting Electrons''. ONR N00014-94-1-1031. $172,020 for three years with Elbio Dagotto (FSU) and Richard Scalettar (UC, Davis).
• 1993-1995: Office of Naval Research (ONR): "Computational Studies of Correlated Electrons''.ONR N00014-93-0495. $305,214 over two and a half years (in collaboration with E. Dagotto (FSU), and R. Scalettar (UC, Davis)).
• 1992-1994: NATO, for a collaboration with researchers in France on computational physics. $ 5,000 over two years.

• Member of the nominating committee of the DCP of APS.2003-2005.
• Member of Review Panel for Condensed Matter Program at Brookhaven National Laboratory (2004).
• Leader of Status of Women site visit committee at University of Arizona, Tucson. (2004)
• Organizer of Workshop on Manganites and Related Transition Metal Oxides. Telluride, CO, June 2004.
• Member of Status of Women site visit committee at University of North Carolina, Durham. (2003)
• Organizer of Focus Sessions on Manganites at APS March Meeting 2001.
• Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the Division of Computational Physics of the APS.
• Member of the American Physical Society.
• Regular Referee for: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B and D, Physics Letters A and B, Journal of Low Temperature Physics and Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids.
• Referee for NSF Grant Proposals.
• Referee for Grant Proposals for the Chilean Government.
• Referee for Supercomputing Time Proposals at SDSC (San Diego).

• "Influence of Quenched Disorder, Two Types of Colossal Magnetoresistances, and Charge-Ordered States for Electron-Doped Materials". H. Aliaga, D. Magnoux, A. Moreo, D. Poilblanc, Seiji Yunoki and Elbio Dagotto. Submitted to Phys. Rev. B.
• "Unveiling New Magnetic Phases of Undoped and Doped Manganites", Takashi Hotta, Mohammad Moraghebi, Adrian Feiguin, Adriana Moreo, Seiji Yunoki, and Elbio Dagotto. To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.
• "Optical Conductivity and Resistivity of a Hole-Doped Spin-Fermion Model for Cuprates". M. Moraghebi, S. Yunoki, and A. Moreo. Phys. Rev. B 66, 214522 (2002).
• "Robust D-wave Pairing Correlations in a Hole-Doped Spin-Fermion Model". M. Moraghebi, S. Yunoki, and A. Moreo. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 187001 (2002).
• "Colossal Effects in Transition Metal Oxides Caused by Intrinsic Inhomogeneities". J. Burgy, M. Mayr, Victor Martin-Mayor, A. Moreo, and Elbio Dagotto. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 277202 (2001).
• "Fermi Surface and Spectral Functions of a Hole Doped Spin-Fermion Model for Cuprates". M.Moraghebi, C. Buhler, S. Yunoki and A. Moreo. Phys. Rev. B63, 214513 (2001).
• "Electronic Phase Separation and Giant Cluster Coexistence in Manganites". A. Moreo. J. of Electron Spectroscopy 117-118, 251 (2001).
• "Colossal Magnetoresistant Materials: the Key role of Phase Separation". E. Dagotto, T. Hotta and A. Moreo. Physics Reports 344, 1 (2001).
• "Resistivity of Mixed-Phase Manganites". M. Mayr, A. Moreo, J. Verges, J. Arispe, A. Feiguin and Elbio Dagotto. Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 135 (2001).