People
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
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
Graduate Students
- Gianluca Prandini (Spring 2015 - onwards)
- Leonid Kahle (Fall 2015 - onwards)
- Antimo Marrazzo (Fall 2015 - onwards)
- Matthieu Mottet (Fall 2015 - onwards, joint with Dr. Curioni, IBM Research Labs)
- 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)
- Oscar Arbelaez Echeverri (Feb 2019 - onwards)
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Dr. Thibault Sohier
- Dr. Iurii Timrov
- Dr. Davide Campi, EPFL Fellow
- Dr. Robert Baldock, EPFL Fellow
- Dr. Sebastiaan Huber
- Dr. Giuliana Materzanini
- Dr. Leopold Talirz
- Dr. Francesco Nattino, EPFL Fellow and Marie Curie Fellow
- Dr. Marco Vanzini
- Dr. Casper Andersen
- Dr. Daniele Tomerini (Jan 2019 - onwards)
- Dr. Loris Ercole (Jan 2019 - onwards)
Application Support Specialists and Software Engineers
- Dr. Nicola Varini
- Ms. Snehal Kumbhar
- Mr. Marco Borelli
- Dr. Elsa Passaro
- Dr. Valeria Granata (Apr 2019 - onwards)
Master Thesis Students
Guests and visitors
- Prof François Gygi, (invited professor, May 2019 - Aug 2019)
- David Amblard (visiting master student, Apr 2019 - Jul 2019)
- Austin Zadoks (Visiting master student, July 2019 - Aug 2020)
Alumni
- 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]
- 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).