Summary
Davide Donadio is a materials scientist and professor at UC Davis with nine years of faculty experience and a long track record of atomistic simulations probing thermal transport, electronic structure, and nucleation phenomena. He leads research on nanostructured films, thermoelectrics, and optoelectronic materials, applying molecular dynamics and electronic-structure theory to predict materials properties from first principles. His work spans academia and research institutes—including leadership roles at the Max Planck Institute and Ikerbasque—and he combines deep computational expertise with mentoring and teaching. Based in Davis, California, he also brings interdisciplinary perspective from collaborative stints at ETH Zurich and industry consulting, uniquely positioning him to translate fundamental simulations into materials design insights.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
PhD Materials Science, PhD Materials Science at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
English, Italian, Russian, Spanish, German