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Pablo G. Debenedetti

Pablo G. Debenedetti

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Engineering and Technology
USA
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
96
Citations
37331
World Ranking
189
National Ranking
68

Chemistry

D-Index
99
Citations
43381
World Ranking
1311
National Ranking
504

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to fundamental understanding of metastable liquids, through creative use of statistical mechanical theory, thermodynamic analysis, and advanced computer simulation methods
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For microscopic theory, insight embodied in a scholarly monograph, and application of supercritical and metastable fluids.
  • 1991 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Pablo G. Debenedetti is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics within Physics and Astronomy, focusing particularly on materials chemistry and molecular biology among other subfields. The scientist's work engages extensively with material dynamics and properties, protein structure and dynamics, theoretical and computational physics, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, and spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies.

The scientist has contributed to frequent publication venues including:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their publication record includes key recent papers such as:

  • Second critical point in two realistic models of water, 2020, Science
  • Signatures of a liquid-liquid transition in an ab initio deep neural network model for water, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Phase Equilibrium of Water with Hexagonal and Cubic Ice Using the SCAN Functional, 2021, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Anomalies and Local Structure of Liquid Water from Boiling to the Supercooled Regime as Predicted by the Many-Body MB-pol Model, 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Liquid-Liquid Transition in Water from First Principles, 2022, Physical Review Letters

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Pablo M. Piaggi
  • Roberto Car
  • Frank H. Stillinger
  • Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
  • Thomas E. Gartner

The researcher's main fields of study are further broken down into several subfields:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics

They have also authored a book published by Princeton University Press titled Metastable Liquids in 2020.

The scientist has received multiple awards over their career, including:

  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2015, for contributions to the understanding of metastable liquids through statistical mechanical theory, thermodynamic analysis, and advanced computer simulation methods
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2000, for microscopic theory, insight embodied in a scholarly monograph, and application of supercritical and metastable fluids
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1991

Best Publications

  • Supercooled liquids and the glass transition

    Pablo G. Debenedetti;Frank H. Stillinger;Frank H. Stillinger

  • Metastable Liquids: Concepts and Principles

    Pablo G. Debenedetti

  • Supercooled and glassy water

    Pablo G Debenedetti

  • Relationship between structural order and the anomalies of liquid water

    Jeffrey R. Errington;Pablo G. Debenedetti

  • Is random close packing of spheres well defined

    S. Torquato;Thomas M Truskett;P. G. Debenedetti

  • Signatures of distinct dynamical regimes in the energy landscape of a glass-forming liquid

    Srikanth Sastry;Srikanth Sastry;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Frank H. Stillinger;Frank H. Stillinger

  • Supercritical fluids as solvents for chemical and materials processing

    Charles A. Eckert;Barbara L. Knutson;Pablo G. Debenedetti

  • SINGULARITY-FREE INTERPRETATION OF THE THERMODYNAMICS OF SUPERCOOLED WATER

    Srikanth Sastry;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Francesco Sciortino;H. E. Stanley

  • Supercooled and glassy water

    Pablo G. Debenedetti;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Effect of surface polarity on water contact angle and interfacial hydration structure.

    Nicolas Giovambattista;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Peter J. Rossky

  • Metastable liquid–liquid transition in a molecular model of water

    Jeremy C. Palmer;Fausto Martelli;Yang Liu;Roberto Car

  • Particle formation with supercritical fluids—a review

    Jean W. Tom;Pablo G. Debenedetti

  • Supercritical fluids : fundamentals and applications

    Pablo G. Debenedetti

  • Effect of pressure on the phase behavior and structure of water confined between nanoscale hydrophobic and hydrophilic plates

    Nicolas Giovambattista;Peter J. Rossky;Pablo G. Debenedetti

  • Towards a quantification of disorder in materials: Distinguishing equilibrium and glassy sphere packings

    T. M. Truskett;S. Torquato;P. G. Debenedetti

  • The evaporation rate, free energy, and entropy of amorphous water at 150 K

    Robin J. Speedy;Pablo G. Debenedetti;R. Scott Smith;C. Huang

  • Glass Transition Thermodynamics and Kinetics

    Frank H. Stillinger;Pablo G. Debenedetti

  • Molecular structural order and anomalies in liquid silica.

    M. Scott Shell;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

  • Generalization of the Wang-Landau method for off-lattice simulations.

    M. Scott Shell;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

  • Solute–solvent interactions in infinitely dilute supercritical mixtures: A molecular dynamics investigation

    Irena B. Petsche;Pablo G. Debenedetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank H. Stillinger
Frank H. Stillinger Princeton University
Peter J. Rossky
Peter J. Rossky Rice University
Nicolas Giovambattista
Nicolas Giovambattista City University of New York
Salvatore Torquato
Salvatore Torquato Princeton University
Thomas M. Truskett
Thomas M. Truskett The University of Texas at Austin
H. Eugene Stanley
H. Eugene Stanley Boston University
Roberto Car
Roberto Car Princeton University
Sergey V. Buldyrev
Sergey V. Buldyrev Yeshiva University
Mikhail A. Anisimov
Mikhail A. Anisimov University of Maryland, College Park

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