Marco Salvalaglio
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                            Emmy Noether Nachwuchsgruppenleiter
NameHerr Prof. Dr. Marco Salvalaglio
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Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
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I'm a theoretical material scientist working at the crossroads between solid-state physics, computational material science and applied mathematics. My research focuses on the modeling and simulation of material properties/evolution and related fields, such as pattern recognition and analysis. I mainly exploit continuum elasticity models, Phase-Field / Phase-Field Crystals models, and Finite Element Method calculations. I'm interested in developing continuum and coarse-grained approaches, able to explain and tailor the outcome of experiments. Since March 2021, I'm leading the Mesoscale Material Modeling & Simulations Group at TU-Dresden, IWR & Dresden Center for Comp. Mat. Sci. (DCMS) funded by the Emmy Noether Programme (DFG).
CV - Short Bio.
| 2025 | DFG Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize | 
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| 2024 | 
 Professorship (apl) of Computational Materials Science  | 
| 2024 | Richard von Mises Prize - GAMM | 
| 2023 | Fellowship of the Young Academy of Europe | 
| 2023 | MSMSE Emerging Leader - Award Winner | 
| from 2021 | 
 Group Leader - Emmy Noether Programme Mesoscale Material Modeling & Simulations Group TU-Dresden, IWR & Dresden Center for Comp. Mat. Sci. (DCMS)  | 
| 2021 | TU-Dresden Young Investigator | 
| 2018 - 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow at TU-Dresden, IWR | 
| 2020 | Italian Habilitation (ASN) as Associate Professor (2020) and Full Professor (2025) in Theoretical Condensed-Matter Physics (02/B2) | 
| 2019 | 
 Junior Visiting Fellow at Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Studies & Visiting Researcher at MSE Dept. - CityU Hong Kong  | 
| 2019 | Visiting Fellow at Aalto University (Dept. of Applied Physics) | 
| 2016 - 2018 | 
 Alexander von Humboldt (Avh) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: AvH Fellow at TU-Dresden, IWR & Guest Scientist at the Materials Research Department of IHP-Microelectronics  | 
| 2016 | Ph.D. Materials Science - University of Milano-Bicocca | 
| 2012 | M.Sc. Physics - University of Milano-Bicocca | 
| 2010 | B.Sc. Physics - University of Milano-Bicocca | 
Research Interests
- Continuum and mesoscale modeling of material properties
 - Phase-Field and (Amplitude) Phase-Field Crystal modeling
 - Surface diffusion, Dewetting, Heteroepitaxy
 - Defects in Crystals and Grain Boundaries
 - Pattern formation and analysis, Correlated disorder
 - Scientific Computing
 
Master Thesis / SHK: Students (m/f/d) who aim at research projects in computational materials science or applied mathematics are always welcome. Possible topics relate to these activities (not restricted to): i) Elasticity in coarse-grained atomistic description (e.g. PFC); ii) Improvements of phase-field (PF) modeling techniques (modeling/numerics aspects); iii) PF simulations of thin films, polycrystals, two-phase systems; iv) Combining PF and Machine learning methods; iv) Properties and inverse design of disordered correlated systems. If interested, please contact me
For Available Positions (e.g. Ph.D.) and/or information on how to join the Mesoscale Material Modeling & Simulations Group see Join us!
Selected invited talks
- "Microstructure Evolution in Thin Films: Solid-State Dewetting Scenarios and Tailoring Self-Assembly", TMS Annual Meeting 2026, San Diego (US), March 2026
 - Distinguished Lecture: "Disconnection flow-mediated microstructure evolution", EUROMECH International Colloquium on “Mechanics of Interfaces”, Metz (FR), August 2025
 - Keynote: "Integrative approaches to model and tailor material microstructure", MSE Research Data Forum 2025, Siegburg (DE), July 2025
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Topical Talk: "Understanding the impact of disconnection flow on microstructure evolution, Defects of Defects Topical session, DPG Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section , Regensburg (DE), March 2025
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Unveiling local structures in hyperuniform patterns via persistent homology and topological statistics. Hyperuniformity and related topics workshop, Paris (FR), December 2024.
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Microscopically-informed phase field models of grain growth: benchmarks and application.
CHiMaD Phase Field Methods XVII workshop, Chicago (US), November 2024.
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Tailoring the self-assembly of ordered and hyperuniform nanostructures by solid-state dewetting.NanoSea-2024, Marseille (FR), July 2024.
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Coarse-grained phase field crystal modeling of elasticity and defects. The 5th International Symposium on Phase-Field Modelling in Materials Science, Hangzhou, (CN), May 2024.
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Richard-von-Mises Prize Plenary Lecture 2024: Bridging scales in mechanics: mesoscale modeling of crystalline materials. GAMM Annual Meeting, Magdeburg (DE), March 2024.
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Elasticity and plasticity at the mesoscale by phase field crystal modeling.RAM3: Recent Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics of Materials, Rome (IT), February 2024.
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IOM Colloquium: Tailoring the self-assembly of ordered and correlated-disordered nanostructures by solid-state dewetting: a modeling perspective. Leibnitz Institute of Surface Engineering, Leipzig (DE), May 2023.
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Karlsruher Werkstoffkolloquium: Self-assembly of ordered and correlated-disordered nanostructures by solid-state dewetting.Institute for Applied Materials, KIT, Karlsruhe (DE), May 2023.
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Interface faceting-defaceting mediated by disconnections. EarthFlows workshop '22
Oslo (NO), June 2022.
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Continuum modeling and simulation of solid-state dewetting. SemiconNano2021, Milano (IT), Sept. 2021.
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Effect of compositional strain and cottrell atmospheres in binary systems by amplitude PFC modeling. SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS20), Bilbao (SP), May 2021.
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Oral-Highlight: Closing the gap between atomic-scale lattice deformations and continuum elasticity within the PFC framework. The 4th International Symposium on Phase‑Field Modelling in Materials Science, Bochum (DE), July 2019.
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Crystal growth and morphological evolution of thin films by PF modeling PULSE 2019 - International Conference of GDR PULSE, Clermont-Ferrand (FR), July 2019.
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Complex morphological evolution of thin-films by phase field modeling and simulation.European Material Research Society (E-MRS) Fall Meeting, Warsaw (PL) Sept. 2018.
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Coarse-grained, three-dimensional modeling of defect networks by the amplitude expansion of the PFC model.Particle-based methods in materials science, ICMS Edinburgh (Scotland - UK), July 2018.
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Complex dewetting scenarios of ultra-thin silicon films. DIMAT 2017 - 10th International Conference on Diffusion in Materials, Haifa (IL). May 2017.
 
Publications
2019
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                                    Deterministic three-dimensional self-assembly of Si through a rimless and topology-preserving dewetting regime, 7 Okt. 2019, in: Physical review materials. 3, 10, 8 S., 103402Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
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                                    Competition Between Kinetics and Thermodynamics During the Growth of Faceted Crystal by Phase Field Modeling, Juli 2019, in: Physica Status Solidi (B): Basic Research. 256, 7, 10 S., 1800518Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
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                                    An efficient numerical framework for the amplitude expansion of the phase-field crystal model, 1 Juni 2019, in: Modelling and simulation in materials science and engineering. 27, 4, S. 044004Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
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                                    Closing the gap between atomic-scale lattice deformations and continuum elasticity, 11 April 2019, in: npj computational materials. 5, 9 S., 48Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
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                                    CONVEXITY SPLITTING IN A PHASE FIELD MODEL FOR SURFACE DIFFUSION, 2019, in: International journal of numerical analysis and modeling. 16, 2, S. 192-209, 18 S.Publikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
 
2018
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                                    Growth kinetics and morphological analysis of homoepitaxial GaAs fins by theory and experiment, 17 Sept. 2018, in: Physical review materials. 2, 9, 10 S., 093404Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
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                                    Dislocation-Free SiGe/Si Heterostructures, Juni 2018, in: Crystals. 8, 6, 16 S., 257Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Übersichtsartikel (Review)
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                                    Defects at grain boundaries: A coarse-grained, three-dimensional description by the amplitude expansion of the phase-field crystal model, 30 Mai 2018, in: Physical review materials. 2, 5, 10 S., 053804Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
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                                    Solid-state dewetting of single-crystal silicon on insulator: effect of annealing temperature and patch size, 15 April 2018, in: Microelectronic Engineering. 190, S. 1-6, 6 S.Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
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                                    Morphological evolution of Ge/Si nano-strips driven by Rayleigh-like instability, 8 Jan. 2018, in: Applied physics letters. 112, 2, 5 S., 022101Elektronische (Volltext-)VersionPublikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift > Forschungsartikel
 
See also: Google Scholar ; ResearchGate; OrcID; Publons
Teaching
Sommersemester 2025
Modeling Seminar (PDEs, Homogenization, Correlated systems): Course Page in OPAL
Sommersemester 2018-present
Advanced Concepts of Scientific Computing (MATH - CMS). Links: Course Page ('25) in OPAL
Sommersemester 2016
Graduate Lectures on "Continuum modeling of Heteroepitaxy"