Davide Donadio

Davide Donadio is a theoretical materials scientist, Professor of Chemistry at UC Davis. He earned his Ph.D. in 2003 at the University of Milan with a thesis on photoinduced transformations and photoelasticity in silicate glasses by electronic structure calculations and molecular dynamics simulations. He then moved to ETH Zurich (Prof. Parrinello’s group), where he studied materials at extreme conditions and crystal nucleation. In 2007 he joined Prof. Galli’s group at UC Davis as a professional researcher and worked on nanoscale heat transport in thermoelectric nanostructures.

From 2010 to 2015 he led the Max Planck Research Group for “Theory of nanostructures” at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz (Germany), investigating non-equilibrium processes at the nanoscale by molecular simulations. In 2014 he was appointed Ikerbasque professor at DIPC (Donostia, Spain), and in 2015 he moved to UC Davis, where he continues his research activity on crystallization, surface chemistry, and nanophononics.

Davide Donadio received the University of California Hellman fellowship in 2017, he became UC Davis Chancellor's Fellow in 2020 and in 2022 he was elected AAAS Fellow “For distinguished contributions to the field of computational and theoretical chemistry, particularly for theoretical modeling of materials.”