Biographical sketch

Pablo Piaggi is currently Ikerbasque Research Fellow and Ramón y Cajal Fellow at CIC nanoGUNE, the nanoscience cooperative research center, in 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 development and application of advanced atomistic simulation methods, including the 2021 IBM Research Award. In 2019 he was awarded a postdoctoral mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), in 2023 he was selected as fellow of Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, and in 2025 was awarded the Ramón y Cajal fellowship from the Spanish State Research Agency.