About

Dr. Aldo Humberto Romero is a Colombian-born physicist who holds the prestigious title of Eberly Family Distinguished Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at West Virginia University. With a career that spans over two decades, Dr. Romero is a preeminent authority in the fields of computational materials science, high-performance computing, and scientific software development. His extensive research portfolio encompasses a wide array of topics in condensed matter physics, including electronic structure, thermal, magnetic, and elastic properties of materials.

Dr. Romero's collaborative endeavors are as diverse as they are impactful. He has worked closely with leading scientists from around the world, such as Xavier Gonze, Director of the Abinit project at the University of Louvain in Belgium; Prof. Eric Bousquet, a researcher at the University of Liege, Belgium; Matthieu Verstraete, a professor at Utrecht University in Holland; Ludger Witz, a professor at the University of Luxembourg; Miguel Marques, a professor at the University of Bochum in Germany; Eduardo Hernandez from CSIC in Spain; Denis Karaiskaj from the University of South Florida; Hyowon Park from the University of Illinois, Chicago, Sobhit Singh from the university of Rochester, and Axel Hoffmann from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. These collaborations have not only enriched his research but have also contributed to advancing the frontiers of computational materials science on a global scale.