Fausto Martelli           

Dr. Fausto Martelli received a BSc in Physical Chemistry from the Universita` degli Studi di Milano, 
Italy, where he earned a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in collaboration with the 
Ecole normale superieure in Paris. During his PhD, Dr. Martelli developed a model to study exciton 
transfer in dissipative media. He than joined the CNRS in Paris as a postdoctoral scholar with a 2-year
fellowship, developing classical potentials to describe the interaction of water with heavy ions of 
interest in the nuclear industry. 
He than moved to Princeton University (USA) as a postdoctoral associate in the group 
of Prof. Roberto Car, where he worked in understanding the properties of water under 
extreme thermodynamic conditions. Dr. Martelli was promoted to Faculty Associate 
Researcher at Princeton University before joining the IBM in 2018.
He is the ideator of a new approach to characterize and quantify order in condensed phase, and
his current research is in the field of Statistical Mechanics of liquids and (biological) glasses, and
Number Theory.