Rate My Professor Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

Marco Buongiorno Nardelli is a Regents Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at the University of North Texas, holding a joint appointment in the Division of Composition Studies in the College of Music. He earned his Laurea in Physics summa cum laude from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1989, an M.Sc. in Physics from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, in 1991, and a Ph.D. in Physics from SISSA in 1993 under the supervision of Prof. S. Baroni. His academic career began with postdoctoral positions at Laboratorio INFM/TASC in Trieste, Italy (1993-1995), Université de Marne-la-Vallée in France (1995), and North Carolina State University (NCSU) (1995-1998). At NCSU, he advanced from Research Associate (1998-2001) to Assistant Professor (2001-2005), Associate Professor (2005-2009), and Full Professor (2009-2012), with joint appointments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Since joining UNT in 2012 as Full Professor in Physics and Chemistry, he has held positions including University Distinguished Research Professor (2014-present), Faculty Member of iARTA and CEMI (2015-present), and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute (2021-present), where he leads the working group on Music Complexity and Structure.

Nardelli's research in computational physics centers on theoretical and computational materials physics, materials informatics, high-performance ab initio simulations, high-throughput materials discovery using tools like AFLOW and PAOFLOW, quantum electronic and thermal transport, nano-catalysis, molecular electronics, topological insulators, quantum materials, energy storage, thermoelectrics, and spintronics. His interdisciplinary work extends to sonification of scientific data through the materialssoundmusic platform and complexity analysis in music. With over 32,000 citations on Google Scholar, key publications include "Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with Quantum ESPRESSO" (Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017; 10,596 citations), "The high-throughput highway to computational materials design" (Nature Materials, 2013), "AFLOWLIB.ORG: A distributed materials properties repository from high-throughput ab initio calculations" (Computational Materials Science, 2012), and "Convergence of multi-valley bands as the electronic origin of high thermoelectric performance in CoSb3 skutterudites" (Nature Materials, 2015). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2010) and the Institute of Physics (2011), recipient of the UNT Research Leadership Award (2017) and Regents Professorship (2022), and serves as Associate Editor of Advances in Complex Systems. Nardelli has delivered numerous invited lectures at conferences such as MRS Fall Meetings, APS March Meetings, and international workshops on materials and music complexity.