Biographical sketch

Pablo Piaggi is currently an Ikerbasque Research Fellow at CIC nanoGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2019 from EPFL (Switzerland) working in the research group of Michele Parrinello. From 2019 to 2023 he held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University. Piaggi has received several awards for his work on the use of advanced simulation methods to study phase equilibria and predict the crystal structure of materials, including the 2021 IBM Research Award. In 2019 he was awarded a postdoctoral mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and in 2023 he was selected as fellow of  Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science.