Roberto Car is the Ralph W. Dornte Professor in Chemistry at Princeton University, where he is also a faculty member in the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials. He conducts research on the simulation of molecular dynamics phenomena.. Professor Car studied physics and attained a doctorate in 1971 in nuclear technology at the Politecnico di Milano. He was a postdoc at the University of Milan and an assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He was employed at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, and he was associate professor for physics at SISSA in Trieste, and professor for physics at the University of Geneva (and director of the IRRMA of EPFL). He is a professor in the Theory Department, of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society.
