The College of Science is proud to announce that UNT Physics professor Dr. Marco Buongiorno Nardelli has received the 2022 Regents Professorship Award. This award recognizes faculty at the rank of professor who have performed outstanding teaching, research and service to the profession, and who have achieved a high level of national and international recognition.

"It is a great honor to be named 2022 Regents Professor. I feel this is a very high point in my journey here at the University of North Texas, and a recognition of my role not just as a teacher, scientist and composer, but also as a catalyst for inter- and cross-disciplinary initiatives and collaborations," said Dr. Buongiorno Nardelli. "I want to thank all the people that are making this trail adventurous, exciting and stimulating: my students and colleagues in the Departments of Physics and Chemistry in the College of Science; the Division of Composition Studies in the College of Music; iARTA, the initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts; and CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia. And the most important thing is that the journey is not over!"

Dr. Marco Buongiorno Nardelli is computational physicist and composer with appointments in Physics, Chemistry and Composition, a member of iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts and of CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia. As both an Artist and a Scientist, his work is intrinsically inter- and cross-disciplinary: his work in Physics and in Music is the natural extension of his practices as a creative thinker: "At the core, I am doing the same thing; the tools that I use to achieve the end-goals are different, of course, but the conceptual framework is very similar. These two things talk to each other at a very deep level." His scientific research activities range from the design and discovery of novel materials for 21st century applications in renewable energy, environment, nano-electronics and devices, to the development of advanced electronic structure theories and scientific software for computational materials design.

As a composer, he is a pioneer in the application of complexity theories and big data analysis tools to the structure of music as a generalized mathematical space. As an artist, he is internationally recognized for his music/new media installations, and his artistic research is rooted in the duality "music as data, data as music", including the translation of scientific data and processes into sonic, and potentially artistic, material.

He has published more than 200 papers that have garnered more than19000 citations (H-index: 58). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Institute of Physics, an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and a Parma Recordings artist.