The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has appointed Prof. Giulia Galli, a world-leading figure in theoretical physics and chemistry, to its fourth cohort of Fellow-Ambassadors.
Galli, Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago, is one of a select group of global researchers chosen to foster high-level international collaboration.
The CNRS Fellow-Ambassadors program is designed to position the French national research institution as a central hub for the world’s scientific communities. This latest cohort features experts from the United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, and Germany, whose collective expertise spans fields as diverse as high-performance computing, mathematics, ecology, materials physics, immunology and film studies. The cohort also includes Turing Prize and Nobel Prize laureates.
Galli is internationally renowned in the fields of theoretical physics and chemistry and particularly specializes in materials modelling, computational science and atomic-scale simulation. Her expertise covers fields of strategic importance for the CNRS, particularly materials for energy and quantum simulations.
Galli’s career has featured major scientific contributions that have been recognized by many prestigious awards like the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, the Rahman prize in computational physics and her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Science. Her international influence is also reflected by her active role in major interdisciplinary collaborations and contributions to flagship quantum simulation projects.
—Adapted from a release originally posted on the CNRS website