Stefano Baroni awarded the 2026 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
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Trieste, November 5, 2025 – The American Physical Society has awarded Stefano Baroni, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at SISSA, the 2026 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, recognizing his pioneering work in methods for studying the electronic and thermal properties of materials and his leading role in promoting open-source software for electronic structure calculations.
Prof. Baroni has been a long-time user and collaborator of Cineca’s high-performance computing infrastructure. As a member of Cineca’s HPC Scientific Council for several years, he contributed to the evaluation and selection of national research projects to be allocated on the supercomputers. His work has helped shape computational materials science in Italy and abroad, in close connection with Cineca’s mission to enable advanced research through high-performance computing.
Prof. Baroni is the the initiator of the QuantumESPRESSO project and founding director of the QuantumESPRESSO Foundation, to which Cineca is proudly partner and contributor.
Cineca and the broader scientific community that relies on its supercomputing facilities extend their warmest CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Baroni for this prestigious recognition, which also honors his long-standing contribution to the growth of computational materials science in Italy.
As leading figure in the international HPC community, Baroni continues to collaborate with Cineca, and plays an active role in the MaX Center of Excellence project for Material design and ICSC – National Research Center in High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, where he co-leads the Materials and Molecular Sciences spoke. His long collaboration with Cineca has supported research in quantum materials and molecular simulation, contributing to the development of one of the most active scientific communities in the field.