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Stefano Curtarolo
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
RESEARCH FIELDS
- 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
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.
Appointments and Affiliations
- 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 Autonomous Materials Design
- Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Professor in the Department of Physics
Contact Information
- Office Location: 144 Hudson Hall, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: +1 919 660 5506
- Email Address: stefano.curtarolo@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Sc.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
- M.S. Pennsylvania State University, 1999
- M.S. University of Padua (Italy), 1998
- M.S. University of Padua (Italy), 1995
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence Materials Science; Autonomous Materials Design; Computational materials science; High-Entropy Disordered Systems; Materials for Energy Applications; Materials for Aerospace Applications. Prof. Curtarolo multidisciplinary research makes use of state-of-the-art techniques from fields like materials science, chemistry, physics, quantum mechanics, mathematics and computer science.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- High Performance, Computing Modernization Program Flagship Award. DOD-HPC. 2021
- Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher. Clarivate Analytics. 2021
- Distinguished Visiting Professorship. Max-Plank Society, Fritz-Haber Instittue, Berlin. 2018
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. 2016
- DOD-MURI Award, The Science of Entropy Stabilized Ultra-High Temperature Materials. Duke University, NCSU, UCSD, UVA. 2015
- Fellow. American Physical Society. 2013
- Stansell Distinguished Research Award. Duke University. 2013
- DOD-MURI Award, Topological decompositions and spectral sampling algorithms for elements substitution in critical technologies. Duke University, UMD, UNT, CMU, BYU. 2013
- Best Paper Award. CALPHAD (Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry). 2008
- ONR Young Investigator Program Award. Office of Naval Research. 2008
- NSF Early CAREER Award. National Science Foundation. 2008
- MRS Silver Medal Graduate Student Award. Materials Research Society. 2008
- Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. President of the United States of America. 2007
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2007
Courses Taught
- ME 592: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
- ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering
- ME 221L: Structure and Properties of Solids
- EGR 95FS: First Year seminar in Focus
- EGR 101L: Engineering Design and Communication
In the News
- Materials Scientist Stefano Curtarolo Elected to the European Academy of Sciences (Aug 13, 2024 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Computational Method Discovers New Materials for Extreme Environments (Jan 11, 2024 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Which Duke Scholars Made the Most Cited List? (Nov 16, 2023 | Duke Research Blog)
- Heat-Proof Chaotic Carbides Could Revolutionize Aerospace Technology (Oct 17, 2022 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Duke Awards 22 Distinguished Professorships (Jun 28, 2021)
- Strengthened by Chaos, New Super-Hard Materials Will Stir Steel Together (Feb 25, 2021 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Disordered Materials Could Be Hardest, Most Heat-Tolerant Ever (Nov 26, 2018 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- D.I.Y. Crystal-Makers Get Refurbished Online Cookbook (Jun 2, 2017 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Can artificial intelligence create the next wonder material? (May 5, 2016 | Nature)
- Engineering Researchers Reveal New Class of Stable Oxides Based on Five or More Elements (Oct 1, 2015)
- Researchers Aim to Develop New Techniques for Creating High-Temperature Alloys (Aug 25, 2015)
- A Made-to-Order Materials Menu (Nov 17, 2014 | Duke Research Blog)
- Duke Engineers Use Brute Force Computing to Find New Materials (Jan 5, 2014)
- How supercomputers will yield a golden age of materials science (Nov 22, 2013 | Scientific American)
- Pratt Engineers Awarded Four Department of Defense Grants (Jun 18, 2013)
Representative Publications
- Smith, SM; Gilli, N; Fahrenholtz, WG; Hilmas, GE; García-González, S; Jiménez-Piqué, E; Curtarolo, S; Silvestroni, L, Dual-phase ceramics based on multi-cation boride and carbide: Investigations at the nanoscale, Journal of Materiomics, vol 11 no. 1 (2025) [10.1016/j.jmat.2024.06.002] [abs].
- Roberts, J; Rijal, B; Divilov, S; Maria, JP; Fahrenholtz, WG; Wolfe, DE; Brenner, DW; Curtarolo, S; Zurek, E, Machine learned interatomic potentials for ternary carbides trained on the AFLOW database, npj Computational Materials, vol 10 no. 1 (2024) [10.1038/s41524-024-01321-7] [abs].
- Filipović, S; Smith, SM; Hilmas, G; Fahrenholtz, W; Obradović, N; Curtarolo, S, Synthesis and properties of (Hf,Mo,Ti,W,Zr)B2–(Hf,Mo,Ti,W,Zr)C dual phase ceramics, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, vol 44 no. 14 (2024) [10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2024.116670] [abs].
- Vecchio, K; Curtarolo, S; Kaufmann, K; Harrington, TJ; Oses, C; Toher, C, Fermi energy engineering of enhanced plasticity in high-entropy carbides, Acta Materialia, vol 276 (2024) [10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120117] [abs].
- Brune, PM; Hilmas, GE; Fahrenholtz, WG; Watts, JL; Curtarolo, S, Thermal and electrical properties of single-phase high entropy carbide ceramics, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol 107 no. 9 (2024), pp. 5893-5902 [10.1111/jace.19862] [abs].