title: Lucia Reining
text: # Lucia Reining
  
  Lucia Reining (born 13 September 1961) is a German theoretical spectroscopist who works in France as a director of research (exceptional class) with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), in the Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés at the École Polytechnique.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Reining studied physics at RWTH Aachen University beginning in 1980, with Ivan Egry as a faculty mentor, earning a diploma there in 1985. She did her doctoral studies with Rodolfo Del Sole at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, completing her Ph.D. in 1991.
  
  After a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire in Orsay, Reining became a researcher for the CNRS in 1992. She was promoted to director of research in 2002, and to director of research exceptional class in 2016.
  
  ## Recognition
  
  Reining won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2003. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2007, after a nomination from the APS Division of Computational Physics, "for her fundamental contributions to ab initio computation of spectroscopic properties of solids, employing many-electron Green's function and time-dependent density functional approaches".
  
  She was the 2020 winner of the Gentner-Kastler Prize [de; fr] of the Société Française de Physique and German Physical Society.
  
  ## Selected publications
  
  * Albrecht, Stefan; Reining, Lucia; Del Sole, Rodolfo; Onida, Giovanni (May 1998), "Ab initio calculation of excitonic effects in the optical spectra of semiconductors", Physical Review Letters, 80 (20): 4510–4513, arXiv:cond-mat/9803194, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4510
  * Onida, Giovanni; Reining, Lucia; Rubio, Angel (June 2002), "Electronic excitations: density-functional versus many-body Green's-function approaches", Reviews of Modern Physics, 74 (2): 601–659, doi:10.1103/revmodphys.74.601, hdl:10261/98472
  * Martin, Richard M.; Reining, Lucia; Ceperley, David M. (2016), Interacting Electrons: Theory and Computational Approaches, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139050807, ISBN 978-1-139-05080-7
  