Prof. Nicola Marzari holds the Chair of Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPFL. He is the director of the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research on Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (NCCR MARVEL) and the current Chairman of Psi-k. Previous tenured appointments include the first University Chair of Materials Modelling at the University of Oxford (UK), and the Toyota Chair for Materials Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA). Within MaX, he leads WP5, developing an ecosystem for the convergence of high performance and high throughput computing and data analytics.