Michele Amato is currently Assistant Professor (Maître de conférences) at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (LPS) of Université Paris Saclay (UPSaclay). In 2011 he received his Ph.D. in Physics at the Università di Modena (Italy). He was a visiting scientist at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona from 2009 to 2011. In January 2012 he moved to Paris for working as post-doc at Laboratoire de Physiques des Solides of Université Paris Sud. In March 2013 he was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship for working as a researcher at École Polytechnique in Paris. In 2013 he became Assistant Professor at the Institut d’Électronique Fondamentale of Université Paris Sud where he worked until February 2019. His research is devoted to the application of computational modelling to outstanding problems and issues in materials science, using ab initio quantum-mechanical theory and codes to aid and guide experimental activities.