!!Nicola Spaldin - Curriculum Vitae \\ __Education__ \\ *Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1996\\ *B.A. Natural Sciences, First Class Honours, Cambridge University, 1991 \\ __Research Employment__ \\ *ETH Zurich, Department of Materials, Professor and Chair of Materials Theory, 2010 - present \\ *University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Department , Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, 1997 - 2006 \\ *Uppsala University, Dept. of Materials Physics, Visiting Professor, April - August 2010 \\ *UC Berkeley, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Visiting Miller Professor, January - June 2007 \\ *Cambridge University, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Visiting Professor, March - June 2003 \\ *Jawarhalal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Visiting Professor, October - December 2000 \\ *Yale University, Applied Physics Dept., Postdoctoral Researcher, 1996 - 1997\\ *University of California, Berkeley, Chemistry Dept., Graduate Student Researcher, 1991 - 1996 \\ __Selected Professional Activities__ \\ *Founding Lead Editor, Physical Review Research, the new fully open access journal of the American Physical Society. *Coordinator, ETH Materials Department BS curriculum revision project, The Materials Scientist 2030, Who is She? \\ *Director, International Center for Materials Research, UC Santa Barbara, 2007 - 2010. \\ *Selected Advisory Board Memberships: ERC Scientific Council; ABINIT electronic structure code development project; Thomas Young Centre, London; Max Planck Institute for Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Dresden; ISIS UK National Facility for neutron scattering and muon spectroscopy; Ψk Electronic Structure Network.\\ \\