Marco Buongiorno Nardelli is University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas, a computational materials physicist, a composer, flutist and a member of CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, and iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Institute of Physics, a founding member of the AFLOW Consortium and a Parma Recordings artist.