David Jacob is a theoretical condensed matter physicist. His principle research interests concern strong electronic correlations and quantum magnetism in nanoscale systems and quantum materials. He obtained his PhD in 2007 from the
University of Alicante (Spain) in the group of Professor Juan-José Palacios working on spin transport in atomic-scale conductors. From 2007 to 2009 he was a Postdoc in the group of Professor Gabriel Kotliar at Rutgers University (New Jersey, US) here he worked on Dynamical Mean-Field Theory applied to nanoscale systems. From 2009 to 2017 he was a Senior Postdoc in the group of Professor Hardy Gross at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle (Germany), working on the ab initio description of strong electronic correlations in molecular devices. From 2017 to 2024 he was an Ikerbasque Researcher at the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian (Spain), where he mainly worked on strong electronic correlations and quantum magnetism in magnetic nanographenes, as well as on steady-state density functional theory, a novel DFT framework for the description of electronic transport via nanoscale conductors. In 2024 he returned to the University of Alicante as a Distiguished Researcher, where he leads the Quantum Materials Theory group.