Summary
Mariana Rossi is a computational molecular scientist and professor with over a decade of expertise developing and applying first-principles and path-integral methods to challenging materials and biomolecular problems. Trained in physics at the University of São Paulo and with a PhD from the Fritz Haber Institute/Technische Universität Berlin, she has led independent research groups at the Max Planck institutes and now holds the Unilever Professorship at Cambridge. Her work bridges electronic structure, nuclear quantum effects, and machine learning for atomistic simulations, with a track record of inventing efficient approximations for quantum nuclei in dynamical response properties. A former Junior Research Fellow at Oxford and visiting researcher at EPFL, she combines deep methodological development with leadership roles in international research networks and governance. Notably, she advances computational chemistry by pushing electronic-structure techniques to describe complex biomolecular secondary structures—bringing theoretical rigor to problems often treated only phenomenologically.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemical Physics at Technische Universität Berlin
Colégio Anglo, São José dos Campos, Brasil
English, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, French