Silvana Botti is a full professor for Theory of Excited States of Integrated Solid State Systems at the Ruhr University Bochum.
[2] Her research group was a member of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility.
[1] Her research focuses on theoretical spectroscopy and the development of first-principles methods for electronic excitations based on (time-dependent) density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory.
[6][2] She edited the book "First Principles Approaches to Spectroscopic Properties of Complex Materials".
[4] Botti was part of an international research collaboration on a silicon-based direct bandgap light emitter, which was announced to be the "Breakthrough of the Year" by Physics World in 2020.