Mariana Rossi

Mariana Rossi is a distinguished Brazilian physicist specializing in computational physical chemistry and quantum-mechanical simulations. She completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Physics from the University of São Paulo, followed by a Ph.D. at the Fritz Haber Institute under Professors Volker Blum and Matthias Scheffler. Her academic journey includes postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford with Professor David Manolopoulos and a visiting researcher position at EPFL with Professor Michele Ceriotti. She established and led the Otto Hahn Group "Simulations from Ab Initio Approaches" at the Fritz Haber Institute from 2016 to 2020, before moving to her current position as head of the Lise Meitner Group at the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg. Her groundbreaking work in developing theoretical methods at the interface of statistical mechanics, electronic structure theory, and machine learning has earned her the prestigious Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize 2024. She currently leads the SabIA (Simulations from Ab Initio Approaches) group, focusing on understanding the impact of temperature and quantum nuclear motion on complex materials, and contributes to the development of major atomistic simulation software including FHI-aims and i-P