THEOS

Jan. 2019. Front (from left to right): I. Laroche, M. Borelli, S. Waychal, G. Pizzi, M. Vanzini, L. Favre-Quattropani, N. Rivano, N. Marzari, G. Materzanini, M. Simoncelli, C. Bujenita, U. Vaucher, P. Mayor, L. Ercole. Back (from left to right): M. Gibertini, L. Talirz, S. Zoupanos, R. Baldock, S. Huber, G. Prandini, C. Andersen, F. Nattino, D. Tomerini, T. Chiarotti, F. Libbi, R. De Gennaro, N. Hörmann, T. Sohier, A. Marrazzo, L. Kahle, I. Timrov, E. Passaro, D. Campi, N. Colonna, C. Johnston, M. Tohidivahdat.

Previous group pictures

Group Leader

• Prof. Nicola Marzari

THEOS Management

• Mme. Irene Laroche (administrative assistant)

MARVEL Management

• Mme. Cornelia Bujenita (administrative assistant)
• Dr. Lidia Favre-Quattropani (scientific manager)
• Dr. Patrick Mayor (programme manager)
• Dr. Pascale Van Landuyt (tech transfer)
• Mme. Carey Sargent (tech transfer/communication)
• Mme. Ursula Vaucher (financial officer)

Senior Scientists

• Dr. Giovanni Pizzi

Graduate Students

• Michele Simoncelli (Fall 2016 - onwards)
• Riccardo De Gennaro (Jan 2018 - onwards)
• Francesco Libbi (Mar 2018 - onwards)
• Mohammad Tohidivahdat, (Sep. 2017 - onwards, joint with Prof. Agrawal, EPFL)
• Norma Rivano (Aug 2018 - onwards)
• Tommaso Chiarotti (Oct 2018 - onwards)
• Luca Binci (Sep 2019 - onwards)
• Junfeng Qiao (Dec 2019 - onwards)
• Chiara Cignarella (Feb 2020 - onwards)
• Fatemeh Haddadi (Feb 2020 - onwards)

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Dr. Iurii Timrov (Feb 2016 - onwards)
• Dr. Davide Campi, EPFL Fellow (Feb 2016 - onwards)
• Dr. Sebastiaan Huber (Nov 2016 - onwards)
• Dr. Giuliana Materzanini (Feb 2017 - onwards)
• Dr. Leopold Talirz (Jun 2017 - onwards)
• Dr. Yakutovich Aliaksandr (Oct 2018 - onwards)
• Dr. Marco Vanzini (July 2018 - onwards)
• Dr. Casper Andersen (Oct 2018 - onwards)
• Dr. Loris Ercole (Jan 2019 - onwards)
• Dr. Francisco Ramirez (Aug 2019 - onwards)
• Dr. Sokseiha Muy (Sep 2019 - onwards)
• Dr. Michele Kotiuga (Sep 2019 - onwards)
• Dr. Du Dou (Oct 2019 - onwards)
• Dr. Simon Adorf (Oct 2019 - onwards)
• Dr. Francesco Aquilante (Oct 2019 - onwards)
• Dr. Edward Linscott (Nov 2019 - onwards)
• Dr. Samuel Poncé (Nov 2019 - onwards)
• Dr. Antimo Marrazzo (Dec 2019 onwards)
• Dr. Leonid Kahle (Jan 2020 - onwards)
• Dr. Davide Grassano (Jan 2020 - onwards)
• Dr. Marnick Bercx (Apr 2020 - onwards)
• Dr. Christopher Sewell (Apr 2020 - onwards)

Application Support Specialists and Software Engineers

• Ms. Snehal Kumbhar
• Mr. Marco Borelli
• Dr. Elsa Passaro
• Dr. Valeria Granata

Master Students

• Virginie De Mestral (Spring Semester Feb 2020)
• Aman Singh (Spring Semester Feb 2020)

Guests and visitors

• Enrico Di Lucente Visiting Master student (Apr 2020 - Dec 2020)

Alumni

• Austin Zadoks (July 2019 - Jan 2020)
• Dr. Daniele Tomerini (Jan 2019 - Jan 2020)
• Felix Bölle (Visting PhD student, Oct 2019 - Dec 2019)
• Antimo Marrazzo (PhD student 2015 - Nov 2019)
• Leonid Kahle (PhD student 2015 - Dec 2019)
• Oscar Arbelaez Echeverri (Feb 2019 - Nov 2019)
• Dr. Thibault Sohier (Jan 2016 - Oct 2019)
• Matthieu Mottet (Fall 2015 - Fall 2019, joint with Dr. Curioni, IBM Research Labs)
• Dr. Robert Baldock, EPFL Fellow (Oct 2016 - Sep 2019)
• Prof François Gygi, (invited professor, May 2019 - Aug 2019)
• Dr. Francesco Nattino (2018 - Sep 2019)
• Gianluca Prandini (PhD student Jan 2015 - Jul 2019)
• David Amblard (visiting master student, Apr 2019 - Jul 2019)
• Marcel Sadowski (exchange PhD student, Apr 2019 - Jun 2019)
• Dr. Nicola Colonna (postdoc, Dec 2014 - May 2019)
• Dr. Conrad Johnston (postdoc May 2018 - May 2019)
• Dr. Nicolas Hörmann (postdoc, Mar 2016 - Apr 2019)
• Dr. Spyros Zoupanos (application support specialist and software engineer, Jun 2015 - Apr 2019)
• Shi-Lin Wang (master project, Autum semester 2018)
• Pablo Piaggi (Fall 2015 - Jan 2019, joint with Prof. Parrinello, USI and ETHZ)
• Dr. Martin Uhrin (postdoc Jan 2015 - Jan 2019)
• Simran Kumari (MARVEL Inspire Fellow, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, Dec 2017 - Dec 2018)
• Dr. Matteo Cococcioni (senior scientist, Oct 2013 - Oct 2018)
• Rico Häuselmann (application support specialist and software engineer, Dec 2016 - Aug 2018)
• Rong Zhang, (visiting student from Nanyang Technological University, Feb 2018 - Aug 2018)
• Albert Musaelian (visiting student, Jun 2018 - Aug 2018)
• Nicola Barchi (master project, Spring semester 2018)
• Mahdi Hijazi (master project, Spring semester 2018)
• Théo Jaffrelot-Inizan (master project, Spring semester 2018)
• Prof. Scott Auerbach (visiting professor, Feb 2018 to June 2018)
• Dr. Victor Manuel Garcia Suarez (visiting researcher, May 2018 - June 2018)
• Dr. Nicolas Mounet (postdoc Feb 2015- March 2018)
• Chiheb Ben Mahmoud (visiting student from CentraleSupélec Paris, May 2017 to Feb 2018)
• Kejia Cui, EPFL (from Sept 2017 - Jan 2018)
• Farzad Rezaeianaran, EPFL (from Apr 2017 to Dec 2017)
• Carsten Staacke (visiting master student, Sep 2017 - Dec 2017)
• Dr. Oliviero Andreussi (postdoc 2008-2012, 2015-2017, now assistant professor NTU)
• Dr. Aris Marcolongo (postdoc 2015-2017, now IBM Zurich)
• Francesco Libbi, (visiting master student, Apr 2017 - Nov 2017)
• Norma Rivano (MARVEL Inspire Fellow, Mar 2017 - Oct 2017)
• Dr. Marco Gibertini (postdoc 2013-2017, now Ambizione Fellow at U. of Geneve)
• Dr. Fernando Gargiulo (postdoc 2015-2017, now ENEL)
• Dr. James Moraes de Almeida (postdoc 2015-2017, now U. of Sao Paulo)
• Dr. Ngoc Linh Nguyen (postdoc 2012-2017, now U. of Chicago)
• Pierre Jean Francois Leroux (Master thesis student - Autumn 2016)
• Sébastien Pierre Bienvenue (Master thesis student - Autumn 2016)
• Przemyslaw Juda (Master thesis student - Autumn 2016)
• Thanh Phong Lê (Master thesis student - Autumn 2016)
• Mathieu Lempen (Master thesis student - Autumn 2016)
• Dr. Andrea Cepellotti (PhD student Nov 2011 - March 2016, postdoc until Nov 2016, now Harvard University)
• Abel Carreras Conill (visiting PhD student, Sept-Oct 2016)
• Prof. Filippo de Angelis (visiting professor, Apr 2016 - May 2016)
• Marco Coco (visiting PhD student, Apr 2016 - Oct 2016)
• Dr. Riccardo Sabatini (postdoc 2013-2014 and visitor 2014-2016, now at Human Longevity)
• Daniele Dragoni (PhD student, Oct 2011 - Apr 2016, postdoc U. Milano Bicocca)
• Anand Chandrasekaran (PhD student, Jan 2012 - Feb 2016, postdoc Georgia Tech)
• Daniel Marchand (visiting master student, Jun 2015 - Dec 2015)
• Dr. Víctor Manuel García Suárez (visiting researcher, Sep 2015-Nov 2015)
• Dr. Nongnuch Artrith (visiting Schlumberger fellow, May 2015-Aug 2015)
• Augustin Bussy (bachelor semester project, Spring 2015; master semester project, Fall 2015; master thesis, Spring 2016)
• Jocelyn Boullier (master semester project, Fall 2015)
• Dr. Ivano Castelli (EPFL Fellow, Sep 2014 - Aug 2015, now assistant professor DTU)
• Vojislav Đukić (visiting bachelor student, Jul 2015 - Sep 2015)
• Sri Krishna Vadlamani (visiting bachelor student, IIT Mumbai, May 2015-Jul 2015)
• Alvaro Charlet (master semester project, Spring 2015)
• Philippe Schwaller (master semester project, Fall 2014; master semester project, Spring 2015; master thesis, Spring 2016))
• Andrius Merkys (visiting PhD student, Oct 2014-Oct 2015)
• Bruno Hadenque (master semester project, Fall 2014)
• Dr. Giovanni Borghi (postdoc, Jan 2012 - Jan 2015, now postdoc at U. of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
• Dr. Emine Küçükbenli (postdoc, Feb 2012 - Nov 2014, now postdoc at SISSA, Trieste)
• Valentin Bersier (master semester project, Spring 2014)
• Christopher Schmitt (master semester project, Spring 2014)
• Dr. David Daniel O'Regan (postdoc Oct 2011 - Dec 2013, now assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin)
• Dr. Giorgia Fugallo (visiting postdoc summer 2013, now CNRS and Université de Nantes)
• Dr. Céline Dupont (visiting postdoc Jan 2012 - Dec 2013, now CNRS and Université de Bourgogne)
• Léo Duchêne (master semester project, Fall 2013)
• Leonid Kahle (master semester project, Fall 2013; master semester project; Spring 2014, master thesis, Spring 2015)
• Alexander Urban (visiting student, Fall 2011)
• Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay (M.Sc. U. of Oxford, Sep 2011)

[2007 to 2011 to be updated]

1. Dr. Michele Ceriotti, Assistant Professor, EPFL (short postdoc 2011)
2. Dr. Cheol-Hwan Park, Associate Professor, Seoul National University (postdoc 2010-2012)
3. Dr. Andrea Ferretti, Research Scientist (tenured), CNR and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (postdoc 2009-2011)
4. Dr. Oliviero Andreussi, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas (postdoc 2008-2012, 2015-2017)
5. Dr. Xiaofeng Qian, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M (postdoc, 2008-2011)
6. Dr. Davide Ceresoli, Research Scientist (tenured), CNR and University of Milan (postdoc 2008-2011)
7. Dr. Oswaldo Dieguez, Associate Professor, University of Tel Aviv (postdoc 2006-2007)
8. Sejoong Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology (UST) Korea (PhD 2006-2011)
9. Jivtesh Garg, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma (PhD 2006-2011)
10. Yu-Tzu Elise Li, Assistant Professor, NTNU Taiwan (PhD 2006-2011)
11. Dr. Nicola Bonini, Senior Lecturer (aka Assistant Professor), King’s College London (postdoc 2005-2011)
12. Amelie Juhin
13. Marco Fornari
14. Matteo Salvetti
15. Nicolas Poilvert
16. Nicholas Singh-Miller
17. Nicephore Bonnet
18. Hatem Halal
19. Dmitri Volja
20. Samed Halilov
21. Kathy Simons

[2007 to 2011 to be updated]

• Dr. Timo Thonhauser (DMSE, visiting scientist: Aug 2006 - Jul 2007, research associate: Aug 2007 - Jul 2008), Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University
• Dr. Ismaila Dabo (DMSE, graduate student 2002-2007), Postdoctoral researcher, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, France).
• Dr. Brandon Wood (DMSE, graduate student 2001-2007), NSF Postdoctoral researcher, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (Bangalore, India).
• Dr. Arash Mostofi (DMSE, postdoc Oct 2005 - Aug 2007), Lecturer (i.e. Assistant Professor), Department of Physics, and Department of Materials, Imperial College (London, UK).
• Dr. Young-Su Lee (DMSE, graduate student 2001-2006, postdoc Aug 2006 - Aug 2007), Senior Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).
• Dr. Boris Kozinsky (Physics, graduate student), Research Scientist, Bosch GMBH (Cambridge, MA).
• Dr. Francesca Baletto (DMSE, postdoc May 2006 - Jul 2007), Lecturer (i.e. Assistant Professor), Department of Physics, King's College (London, UK).
• Chen Li (Physics, undergraduate UROP Spring 2007), Graduate student, Physics Department, Cornell University.
• Dr. Patrick Sit (Physics, graduate student 2002-2006), Postdoctoral researcher with Prof M. Klein, University of Pennsylvania.
• Michael Tambe (DMSE, graduate student 2006), Graduate student, Prof. Silvija Gradecak, DMSE.
• Dr. Manu Sharma (DMSE, short-term postdoc Sep 2005 - Dec 2005), Postdoctoral researcher with Prof. G. Galli, University of California Davis.
• Krzystof Niemkiewicz (high school RSI Scholar, Summer 2006).
• Janet Ryu (DMSE, undergraduate UROP, Sep 2005 - May 2006).
• Adam Chao (Physics, undergraduate UROP, Sep 2005 - Jan 2006).
• Dr. Paolo Umari. (DMSE, postdoc Jan 2004 - Dec 2005), Research scientist, Democritos National Simulation Center, and Elettra synchrotron (Trieste, Italy).
• Dr. Damián Scherlis (DMSE, postdoc May 2002 - Sep 2005), Research scientist, CONICET and Departamento de Quimica Inorganica, University of Buenos Aires.
• Giacomo Ferrari (Dublin Jerome High School, Dublin OH, Summer 2005).
• Dr. Cody Friesen (DMSE, graduate student). Assistant professor, Arizona State University.
• Dr. Mayeul d'Avezac (Physics, Paris VI, visiting graduate student, Jan 2004 - Sep 2004), Postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Alex Zunger (NREL).
• Caleb Ng (high school RSI Scholar, Libertyville High School, Summer 2004),cUndergraduate student, Caltech
• Mikael Rechtsman (Physics, undergraduate, May 2002 - May 2003), Graduate student with Prof. Sal Torquato and Prof. Frank Stillinger (Physics, Princeton University).
• Ann Chi (high school RSI Scholar, Terre Haute South Vigo High School, Summer 2003), Undergraduate student, Harvard University.
• Luke Shulenburger (Physics, undergraduate, Spring 2002), Graduate student with Prof. Richard Martin (Physics, UIUC).