Ezio Iacocca, Ph.D.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8870-5106

Iacocca Group

Theoretical and numerical magnetism. I study three broad areas:

1. Physics-informed machine learning applied to physical modeling and discovery of functional materials.
2. Artificial spin ices, focusing on their spin wave dispersion, nonlinear effects such as frequency combs, and waveguide properties.
3. Ultrafast magnetism and picosecond dynamics of magnetic materials subject to an intense, femtosecond optical excitation.

Postdoc, CU Boulder

Ph.D., University of Gothenburg, Sweden

M.Sc., Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

A. Roxburgh, M. Copus, and E. Iacocca, Accelerating magnonic simulations with the pseudospectral Landau-Lifshitz equation, npj Computational Materials 11, 369 (2025)

K. Rockwell, J. Hirst, T. A. Ostler, and E. Iacocca, Pseudospectral Landau-Lifshitz description of magnetization dynamics, Phys. Rev. B 104, L180404 (2024)

G. Alatteili, V. Martinez, A. Roxburgh, J. C. Gartside, O. G. Heinonen, S. Gliga, and E. Iacocca, Gænice: a general model for magnon band structure of artificial spin ices, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 589, 171603 (2023)

E. Iacocca et al., Spin-current-mediated rapid magnon localization and coalescence after ultrafast optical pumping of ferrimagnetic alloys, Nature Commun. 10, 1756 (2019)

NSF Standard Grant 2532497 (2025 - current)

DOE Early Career Award DE-SC0024339 (2023 - current)

NSF Standard Grant 2205796 (2022 - 2025)

S. Gliga, E. Iacocca, and O. G. Heinonen, Dynamics of reconfigurable artificial spin ice: towards magnonic functional materials, APL Materials 8, 040911 (2020)

E. Iacocca and Mark A. Hoefer, Perspectives on spin hydrodynamics in ferromagnets materials, Phys. Lett. A 383, 125858 (2019)