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Salvatore Torquato is an Italian theoretical scientist whose research work has impacted a variety of fields, including physics, chemistry, applied and pure mathematics, materials science, engineering, and biological physics. He is Professor of Chemistry and a Member of the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials at Princeton University. He has been a Senior Faculty Fellow in the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, an enterprise dedicated to exploring frontiers across the theoretical natural sciences. He is also an Associated Faculty Member in three departments or programs at Princeton University: Physics, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. On multiple occasions, he was a Member of the School of Mathematics as well as the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
Torquato's research work is centered in statistical mechanics and soft condensed matter theory. A common theme of his research is the search for unifying and rigorous principles to elucidate a broad range of physical and biological phenomena. His current work focuses on self-assembly theory via inverse statistical mechanics, disordered and ordered particle packings, hyperuniform materials, liquids, structural glasses, quasicrystals, crystals, optimal multifunctional material design, random media, and cancer modeling. He has published over 330 refereed journal articles and a book entitled Random Heterogeneous Materials: Microstructure and Macroscopic Properties.
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