Nicola Marzari named Fellow of the American Physical Society
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Prof. Nicola Marzari has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his outstanding contributions to physics.
The American Physical Society (APS), founded in 1899, counts more than 50,000 members, and it publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the prestigious Review of Modern Physics and Physical Review Letters. Election to Fellowship in this society is limited to no more than 0.5% of the membership.
APS has made Nicola Marzari a Fellow in recognition of “the development of creative and original methods for ab initio calculation of material properties, in particular Wannier-based electronic structure methods and first principles simulations of transport properties of solids and nanostructures.”
At EPFL Nicola Marzari heads the laboratory for Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS). He also directs the NCCR MARVEL for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials, one of the 8 new National Centers of Competence in Research that have been created by the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2014.