Stefano Curtarolo, Ph.D.

About

RESEARCH FIELDS n Artificial Intelligence Materials Science Autonomous Materials Design Computational Materials Science High-Entropy Disordered and Amorphous Systems Materials for Energy Applications Materials for Aerospace Applications Materials for Deep Space Exploration n The research is multidisciplinary and makes use of state of the art techniques from fields like materials science, chemistry, physics, quantum mechanics, mathematics and computer science.

Education

• M.S. University of Padua (Italy), 1995
• M.S. University of Padua (Italy), 1998
• M.S. Pennsylvania State University, 1999
• Sc.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
• Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Director of the Center for Extreme Materials
• Professor in the Department of Physics
• Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Selected publications

• Zhu S, Eckert H, Curtarolo S, Schroers J, Arru00f3yave R, van de Walle A. Computational study of density fluctuation-facilitated shear band formation in bulk metallic glasses (Accepted). Npj Computational Materials. 2026 Dec 1;12(1).
• Tarancu00f3n A, Botros M, Gangwar BP, Biswas K, Divilov S, Eckert H, et al. 2026 Roadmap on compositionally complex and high entropy materials for energy applications (Accepted). Jphys Energy. 2026 Sep 30;8(3).
• Feltrin AC, Zhou Y, Curtarolo S, Hilmas GE, Fahrenholtz WG. Nbu2013Zr Interdiffusion in the (Hf,Ta,Ti,Nb)B2u2013(Hf,Ta,Ti,Zr)B2 High-Entropy Boride System. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 2026 Jul 1;109(7).
• Mou MM, Haque TMA, Daigle SE, Roberts J, Fahrenholtz WG, Maria JP, et al. Finite-Temperature Grain-Boundary Segregation in High-Entropy Carbides. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 2026 Jul 1;109(7).
• Roohani I, Curtarolo S. High-entropy bioceramics as an emerging frontier. Nature Reviews Materials. 2026 Jun 1;11(6):433u20134.
• Divilov S, Eckert H, Hotz N, Campilongo X, Curtarolo S. Disorder viscosity correction approach to calculate spinodal temperature and wavelength. Acta Materialia. 2026 Apr 15;308.
• Roberts J, Rijal B, Divilov S, Maria JP, Fahrenholtz WG, Wolfe DE, et al. A software package for generating robust and accurate potentials using the moment tensor potential framework. Computer Physics Communications. 2026 Mar 1;320.
• Ha MQ, Le DK, Nguyen VC, Kino H, Curtarolo S, Dam HC. Beyond interpolation: integration of data and AI-extracted knowledge for high-entropy alloy discovery. Digital Discovery. 2026 Mar 1;5(3):1079u201397.
• Hossain MD, McIlwaine NS, Marquez-Rios NO, Feltrin AC, Chawla V, Mayanovic RA, et al. Superhard refractory high-entropy diborides. Physical Review Materials. 2026 Mar 1;10(3).
• Campanaro S, Bursi L, Curtarolo S, Calzolari A. Terahertz Volume Plasmon-Polariton Modulation in All-Dielectric Hyperbolic Metamaterials. Advanced Optical Materials. 2026 Feb 16;14(7).