Academy Members

Salvatore Torquato

Princeton University

Salvatore Torquato is Lewis Bernard Professor of Natural Sciences at Princeton University. He is the director of the Complex Materials Theory Group based at Princeton University in the Department of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institute. He has been a Faculty Fellow in the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. Research work in the Complex Materials Theory Group is centered in statistical mechanics and soft condensed matter theory. Current topics of interest include unusual low-temperature states of matter, packing problems, structure and bulk properties of colloids, liquids, glasses, quasicrystals and crystals, hyperuniformity, novel photonic materials, discrete geometry, self-assembly theory, disordered heterogeneous materials, optimization in materials science, cancer modeling, and biophysics.

October 2024