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Theos May 2022

12 May 2022 - we have had our first group meeting in person since 11 Mar 2020. It's been longer than we ever expected. Maybe I'll keep here for a bit the email to the group, from 13 Mar 2020. Let's keep fingers crossed.

Dear all,

you must have just seen the email from EPFL announcing the temporary closure of the school - I'll write tomorrow about practicalities (e.g. I'm thinking that people could take a monitor/keyboard/camera/mouse home, during the weekend - declaring this to me/Irene/Cornelia, to make working easier - workstations will have to stay at EPFL).

Right now I'm more thinking that all of you might feel quite a bit distressed by what is happening, especially if you have family or friends far away. So, I want to make you think that we are all also family and friends, and you can look out for each other, and support each other - in particular, I'm always available for a chat, and some support and consolation - just drop me a line.

Also, however odd this might feel, at the end it's really to keep everyone safe, and not overburden our medical system.

So, practicals will come tomorrow - for tonight, to offers glimpes of hope and optimism, a love poem by Nazim Hikmet when he was in prison, and it was 1945 - not a particularly good year, except for the Bordeaux vintages.

Also, straight from the writer's almanac, as oft-repeated: be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

nicola

The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet.
The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet.
Our most beautiful days we haven't seen yet.
And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven't said yet...


Nâzım Hikmet Ran, September 24th 1945

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Group Leader
THEOS Management
  • Mme. Irene Laroche (administrative assistant) - working every morning (currently 8:00 to 9:45)
MARVEL Management
Senior Scientists
Graduate Students
Postdoctoral Fellows
Application Support Specialists and Software Engineers
Master Students
Guests and visitors
  • Emmanuele Cannavò (visiting PhD student, Mar to Nov 2022)
  • Miki Bonacci (visiting PhD student, mid-Feb to mid-May 2022)
  • Gabriel de Miranda Nascimento (visiting Master student, Feb to Apr 2022)
  • Matteo d'Alessio (visiting PhD student, end of June to early July)
  • Manuel Dillenz (visiting PhD student, August to October 2022)


Alumni
  • Dr. Samuel Poncé, Marie Curie Fellow (Nov 2019 - Oct 2021)
  • Mr. Marco Borelli (web engineer, May 2017 to April 2022)
  • Dr. Francesco Aquilante (Oct 2019 - April 2022)
  • Dr. Leopold Talirz (Jun 2017 - Oct 2021)
  • Dr. Yakutovich Aliaksandr (Nov 2017 - Oct 2021)
  • Jacopo Rizzo (visiting Master student, Apr 2021 - Dec 2021)
  • Dr. Elsa Passaro (web engineer, Sep 2017 - Dec 2021)
  • Lorenzo Bastonero (visiting PhD student, mid-Sep to mid-Oct 2021)
  • Eric Macke (visiting PhD student, mid-Sep to mid-Oct 2021)
  • Giovanni Cistaro (visiting PhD student, mid-Sep to mid-Dec 2021)
  • Lorenzo Varrassi (visiting PhD student, mid-Sep to mid-Dec 2021)
  • Dr. Michele Simoncelli (PostDoc, Jun 2021 - Aug 2021)
  • Dr. Casper Andersen (PostDoc, Oct 2018 - Jul 2021)
  • Vijay Sudarshan (Visiting Master Student, May 2021 to Jul 2021)
  • Konstantin Sopov (Spring Semester 2021)
  • Elena Gazzarrini (INSPIRE Fellow, Jan 2021 - Jul 2021)
  • Dr. Marco Vanzini (postdoc, July 2018 - July 2021)
  • Michele Simoncelli (PhD student, Oct 2016 - May 2021)
  • Dr. Giuliana Materzanini (postdoc, Feb 2017 - April 2021)
  • Aman Singh (master student, Spring 2020 and Jun 2020 to Jan 2021)
  • Dr. Sebastiaan Huber (postoc, Nov 2016 - Dec 2020)
  • Enrico Di Lucente (visiting Master student, Apr 2020 - Dec 2020)
  • Dr. Davide Campi, (postdoc (Feb 2016 - Oct 2020)
  • Virginie De Mestral (master student, Feb 2020 - Aug 2020)
  • Dr. Antimo Marrazzo (postdoc, Dec 2019 - Aug 2020)
  • Ms. Snehal Kumbhar (web engineer, Jul 2015 - Aug 2020)
  • Dr. Leonid Kahle (postdoc, Jan 2020 - May 2020)
  • Austin Zadoks (master student, July 2019 - Jan 2020)
  • Dr. Daniele Tomerini (postdoc, 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 (PhD student, Feb 2019 - Nov 2019)
  • Dr. Thibault Sohier (postdoc, Jan 2016 - Oct 2019)
  • Matthieu Mottet (PhD student, 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 (postdoc, 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. Heather Kulik, Assistant Professor, MIT (PhD 2004-2009)
  12. Dr. Nicola Bonini, Senior Lecturer (aka Assistant Professor), King’s College London (postdoc 2005-2011)
  13. Amelie Juhin
  14. Marco Fornari
  15. Matteo Salvetti
  16. Nicolas Poilvert
  17. Nicholas Singh-Miller
  18. Nicephore Bonnet
  19. Hatem Halal
  20. Dmitri Volja
  21. Samed Halilov
  22. 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).