Nicola Marzari holds the Chair of Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPFL, where he also directs the National Centre on Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials MARVEL. He heads the Laboratory for Materials Simulations at the Paul Scherrer Institut and holds an Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen. He took up the post of Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University
of Cambridge (UK) in September 2025, transitioning there in 2026. Previously, he held the Toyota Chair for Materials Processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was the inaugural Statutory Chair of Materials Modelling at the University of Oxford (UK). He received a Laurea in Physics from the University of Trieste and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge. His research is dedicated to the development and application of electronic-structure simulations to understand, predict, and design the properties and performance of novel materials and devices.