
MAterials design at the eXascale (MAX)
MAX Structure
Director: Elisa Molinari | CNR - Unimore | IT
General Assembly
The main governing body of the Centre of Excellence is the General Assembly (GA) composed by the Principal Investigator (PI) of each project partner:
- CNR | Elisa Molinari
- SISSA | Stefano Baroni
- ICN2 | Pablo Ordejón
- JUELICH | Stefan Blugel
- CEA | Thierry Deutsch
- EPFL | Nicola Marzari
- UGENT | Stefaan Cottenier
- CINECA | Fabio Affinito
- BSC | Julio Gutierrez
- ETHZ | Joost VandeVondele
- E4 | Fabrizio Magugliani
- ARM | Conrad Hillairet
- ICTP | Ivan Girotto
- TRUST-IT | Silvana Muscella
Executive Committee
In guiding the activities of MaX, the Director will be supported by the Executive Committee (ExC), composed of persons selected by the GA within the Consortium teams with competence covering key areas of the MaX activities.
- Andrea Ferretti (Chair - CNR)
- Daniele Varsano (CNR)
- Daniel Wortmann (Juelich)
- Giovanni Pizzi (EPFL)
- Alberto Garcia (ICN2)
- Fabio Affinito (CINECA)
- Stefano De Gironcoli (SISSA)
- Luisa Neri (CNR)
- Mariella Ippolito (CINECA)
Management Team
The Management team at CNR includes:
Work Packages (WPs)
The work plan of the MaX project is organised into 7 work packages contributing to the main MaX pillars.

- WP1 | Lighthouse Applications for Materials Science | Stefano Baroni | SISSA
- WP2 | Exascale workflows and extreme data for materials | Nicola Marzari | UBREMEN
- WP3 | Technical challenges towards exascale and post-exascale | Fabio Affinito | CINECA
- WP4 | Co-design, technology exploitation & energy efficiency | Lubomir Riha | IT4I at VSB
- WP5 | Training & Community Engagement within the HPC ecosystem | Daniele Varsano | CNR
- WP6 | Communication, exploitation, and dissemination | Àlex Argemí | ICN2
- WP7 | Management | Luisa Neri | CNR
Third parties participating to the projects: