Marom elected as APS Fellow

Noa Marom, professor of materials science and engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The Fellowship is a distinguished honor, recognizing excellence in physics as well as exceptional service to the physics community. 

The citation for Marom’s award states that the award has been conferred “for contributions to computational discovery and design of materials via the development of methods and codes for structure and property prediction of molecular crystals, as well as organic, inorganic, and hybrid interfaces.”

In her work, Marom uses advanced computer simulations to predict the structure and properties of molecular crystals and interfaces between inorganic and organic materials. She has created methods and software for crystal structure prediction (CSP), and has made these tools broadly available to the scientific community. Her research team has successfully participated in the 7th blind test of CSP methods. 

"Noa’s election as a Fellow in the American Physical Society is a testimony to the caliber of her research and her interdisciplinary expertise,” said materials science and engineering department chair Elizabeth Dickey. “This honor is very well deserved and our department is fortunate to have her as part of our community.” 

Marom’s work has previously been acknowledged with an NSF CAREER award, the DOE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Award, the Charles E. Kaufman Young Investigator Award, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics, and the ACS COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Within the College of Engineering at CMU, she has been the recipient of the George Tallman Ladd Award and the Dean’s Early Career Fellowship. Marom currently serves as an Associate Editor of npj Computational Materials.