The Team

Martiniani Lab group photo
Stefano Martiniani

Principal Investigator

Dr. Martiniani is an Assistant Professor of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Neural Science at New York University from 2022. He is a core member of NYU's Center for Soft Matter Research and the Simons Center for Computational Physical Chemistry, and an affiliate of the Center for Data Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry and an M.Phil in Scientific Computing from the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (advisor: Daan Frenkel), and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Imperial College London. Prior to joining NYU, Stefano was an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota (2019-2021), and a postdoc jointly with Paul Chaikin (NYU) and Dov Levine (Technion) (2017-2019). His awards include the AFOSR YIP Award, NSF CAREER Award, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative Neuroscience Pair Pilot Award, the inaugural Interdisciplinary Early Career Scientist Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Simons Foundation Faculty Fellowship (NYU), Gates Cambridge Scholarship, and the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award from the University of Cambridge. He has been an NSF investigator since 2020, and an NIH investigator since 2022.

For details, see CV.

Postdocs and Research Scientists

Mathias Casiulis

Mathias Casiulis

JiYeon Han

Philipp Hoellmer

Philipp Hoellmer

Tianhao Li

Simons Center Fellow

Kathryn Mcclain

Flaviano Morone

Flaviano Morone

Research Scientist

Rishabh Sharma

Simons Center Fellow

Graduate Students

Jacob Abraham

Huijie Chen

Tom Egg

Tom Egg

Elijah House

Asit Pal

Asit Pal

Akshada Pradhan

Praharsh Suryadevara

Praharsh Suryadevara

Shannon Yu

co-advised

Research Staff

Gregory Wolfe

Gregory Wolfe

Undergraduates

Kosta Dubovskiy