米歇尔·帕里内洛1945—

帕里内洛一开始在意大利研究凝聚态物理学，后来关注​凝聚态和相变中化学键的形成和断裂。1981年受邀在芝加哥阿贡国家实验室当了三个月访问学者，在那与Aneesur Rahman一同工作，创立了帕里内洛-拉赫曼方法，以观察晶体结构相变。而他39岁时与卡尔共同提出的卡尔-帕里内洛方法，他主要负责分子动力学和统计力学方面的研究。帕里内洛后来的研究还包括控制晶体形状以合成新材料。

Michele Parrinello (born 7 September 1945) is an Italian physicist particularly known for his work in molecular dynamics (the computer simulation of physical movements of atoms and molecules). Parrinello and Roberto Car were awarded the Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the Sidney Fernbach Award in 2009 for their continuing development of the Car–Parrinello method, first proposed while working at SISSA in their seminal 1985 paper, "Unified Approach for Molecular Dynamics and Density-Functional Theory". They have continued to receive awards for this breakthrough, most recently the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences and the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry.

Parrinello also co-authored highly cited publications on "polymorphic transitions in single crystals" and "canonical sampling through velocity rescaling."

Life and career

Michele Parrinello was born in Messina (Sicily) and received his Laurea in physics from the University of Bologna in 1968. After working at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, the IBM research laboratory in Zurich, and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, he was appointed Professor of Computational Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 2001, a position he also holds at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. In 2004 he was elected to Great Britain's Royal Society. In 2010, he became International Member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2011 he was awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize. Between 2014 and 2018, he was a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). Since 2018, he has been a Senior Researcher, and since 2020, the Principal Investigator of the Atomistic Simulations research unit at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

In 2020 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) in Chemistry. As of 2024, he has received over 150,000 scientific citations and has an h-index of 163, which is one of the highest among all scientists. In Clarivate's annual list of citation laureates, Car and Parrinello have been selected as candidates for the 2024 chemistry Nobel prize.

As of 2023, at the age of 78, there are still 6 PhD students working in his group.

Selected notable contributions

Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics (the original paper on this is now the 5th most highly cited paper in Physical Review Letters)

• Parrinello–Rahman algorithm
• Flying ice cube
• Metadynamics
• Machine learning potential