Congratulations to our member Marco Salvalaglio who has been appointed as Associate Professor of Computational Materials Science at the Institute of Scientific Computing / Faculty of Mathematics.
Marco has been an Emmy Noether group leader at TU Dresden since 2021. He is a physicist by training and received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2016. In the same year, he joined TU Dresden with a two-year Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and closely collaborated with the Leibnitz Institute IHP-Microelectronics in Frankfurt (Oder). In 2019, he was a Visiting Junior Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute of Advanced Studies. His interdisciplinary research focuses on modeling material properties and evolution at different scales, including crystalline systems, thin films, defects and grain boundaries, interfaces, pattern formation, and data-driven design of materials using state-of-the-art computational approaches. He has authored over 70 scientific papers and has been invited several times to present his research at internationally renowned conferences, universities, and research institutes. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Young Academy of Europe. In 2024, he received the MSMSE Emergent Leader award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to materials science, and subsequently joined the editorial board of the homonymous IOP journal. The same year, he was awarded the prestigious Richard-von-Mises Prize (GAMM) “in appreciation of his results on coarse-grained modeling of mechanical properties and evolution of crystals.”