Principal Investigator
Dr. Martiniani is an Assistant Professor of Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics at New York University since 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 Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative Collaborative Pair Pilot Project Award, the inagural Interdisciplinary Early Career Scientist Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the Simons Foundation Faculty Fellowship (NYU), Gates Cambridge Scholarship, and the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award from the University of Cambridge. He is an NSF investigator since 2020, and an NIH investigator since 2022. For details, see CV.
