Davide Donadio [2023]
University of California Davis
Citation: For contributions to the development and application of atomistic and first principles simulations to understand the physical properties of materials and nanostructures, in particular their thermal transport properties.
Nominated by: DCOMP
Andrzej Michal Oles [2023]
Jagiellonian University
Citation: For a comprehensive analysis of the multi-orbital Hubbard model which led to a thorough understanding of complex types of order triggered by spin-orbital entanglement in strongly correlated transition metal oxides.
Nominated by: DCOMP
Adrienn Ruzsinszky [2023]
Tulane University
Citation: For the development of electronic structure theory methods, especially density functional theory and the random phase approximation, and their application to materials and molecules, including two-dimensional materials under bending.
Nominated by: DCOMP
Aidan Thompson [2023]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For advancing large-scale atomistic simulations of materials by devising quantum-accurate machine learning interatomic potentials and developing LAMMPS, the leading open-source molecular dynamics package.
Nominated by: DCOMP
Xifan Wu [2023]
Temple University
Citation: For the development of ingenious computational techniques for condensed matter, including a linear scaling algorithm for exact exchange, and for resolving long-standing puzzles about bonding and diffusion in water.
Nominated by: DCOMP
Jin Zhao [2023]
University of Science and Technology of China
Citation: For combining methods of many-body perturbation theory with molecular dynamics to model the coupled ultrafast time scale charge, spin, and lattice quantum interactions in condensed matter and quantum materials within the shared Hefei-nonadiabatic molecular dynamics code.
Nominated by: DCOMP