Nicola Marzari | Feynman Prize Awards Ceremony
Join us for the Foresight Feynman Prizes Awards Ceremony! Named in honor of physicist Richard Feynman, these prizes are granted by the Foresight Institute to recognize recent brilliant achievements in the field of Nanotechnology.
This year, we have the honor of celebrating the accomplishments of our 2025 winner in the Theory category: Nicola Marzari
Theoretical and Computational Infrastructure for Atomically Precise Materials Discovery
Bio: Nicola Marzari holds the Chair of Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPFL, where he also directs the National Centre on Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials MARVEL. He heads the Laboratory for Materials Simulations at the Paul Scherrer Institut and holds an Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen.
He took up the post of Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge (UK) in September 2025, transitioning there in 2026. Previously, he held the Toyota Chair for Materials Processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was the inaugural Statutory Chair of Materials Modelling at the University of Oxford (UK). He received a Laurea in Physics from the University of Trieste and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge.
His research is dedicated to the development and application of electronic-structure simulations to understand, predict, and design the properties and performance of novel materials and devices.
Foresight Institute Molecular Machines Group
A group of scientists, entrepreneurs, and institutional allies who cooperate to advance molecular machines, applications in energy, medicine, and material science, and long-term progress toward Richard Feynman’s vision of nanotechnology.
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