Nicola Marzari has joined our faculty in 2001 working in Computational Materials Science. Prof. Marzari came from Princeton University, where he was a research staff member in the Chemistry Department and in the Keck Computational Materials Science Laboratory of the Princeton Materials Institute. Prof. Marzari's research is targeted at the simulation of structural, electronic, and dynamical properties of complex systems using quantum-mechanical modeling. Recent studies include the catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons, water ordering on metal electrodes, and electronic effects in the binding of oxygen to nanotube sensors and biomolecules. Prof Marzari was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer and Information Science and Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge, where he worked on the surface dynamics and melting of metal surfaces, the sliding of grain boundaries, and the phase diagrams of semiconductor alloys.