Bio
Antimo Marrazzo is a computational condensed-matter physicist and materials scientist whose research focuses on the theory and simulation of materials, with particular emphasis on the design and discovery of novel topological, quantum, and two-dimensional materials, as well as on the development of electronic-structure methods and data-driven approaches. He received his BSc and MSc in Physics, both cum laude, from the University of Trieste in 2013 and 2015, respectively. His master’s thesis focused on the local properties of orbital magnetization, the anomalous Hall effect, and the localization tensor in magnetic metals. In October 2015, he joined the group of Nicola Marzari at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), where he earned his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in November 2019. His doctoral thesis, Electronic Structure and Topology of Novel Materials, received the 2020 EPFL Doctoral Program Thesis Distinction, awarded to the top 8% of PhD theses. He also received the SAIS Prize 2021, recognizing the best STEM PhD among Italian-speaking doctoral students in Switzerland, and the Wasserman Award 2021 for innovative, high-level research in new materials. He remained at EPFL as a postdoctoral researcher until 2020, and from April 2021 to March 2024 he served as junior assistant professor (RTDa) in the Department of Physics at the University of Trieste. Since April 2024, he has been tenure-track assistant professor (RTDb) at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste. In January 2022, he obtained the Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) for associate professor in theoretical condensed-matter physics (FIS/03 - 02/B2). His research combines first-principles simulations based on density functional theory, orbital-dependent Koopmans-compliant functionals, and many-body perturbation theory (GW) with materials informatics, workflow automation, and machine-learning approaches, while making extensive use of high-performance computing. Much of his work involves Wannier functions, spin-orbit coupling, and concepts from geometry and topology. More recently, he has expanded his interests to include disorder, temperature effects, strong electronic correlations, and superconductivity in topological systems. He has authored 27 publications, about two-thirds of them as first or last author, with approximately 5,000 citations according to Scopus. At ARGO, he and his team work across the field, from the development of new theories and computational methods to the targeted study of materials, including high-throughput screening and collaborations with experimental groups and industrial partners.