People
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)
- Mme. Carey Sargent (tech transfer/communication)
- Mme. Ursula Vaucher (financial officer)
Senior Scientists
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)
- Austin Zadoks (Oct 2020 - onwards)
- Changpeng Lin (Oct 2020 - onwards)
- Mario Caserta (Nov 2020 - onwards)
- Marija Stojkovic (Jan 2021 - onwards)
Postdoctoral Fellows
- 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, Marie Curie Fellow (Nov 2019 - onwards)
- Dr. Davide Grassano (Jan 2020 - onwards)
- Dr. Marnik Bercx (Apr 2020 - onwards)
- Dr. Christopher Sewell (Apr 2020 - onwards)
- Dr. Flaviano José dos Santos (Aug 2020 - onwards)
- Dr. Giovanna Lani (Nov 2020 - onwards)
Application Support Specialists and Software Engineers
Master Students
- Aman Singh (master student, Spring 2020 and Jun 2020 to Jan 2021)
- Elena Gazzarrini (INSPIRE Fellow, Jan 15th 2021 to July 14th 2021)
Guests and visitors
Alumni
- Dr. Sebastiaan Huber (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]
- Dr. Michele Ceriotti, Assistant Professor, EPFL (short postdoc 2011)
- Dr. Cheol-Hwan Park, Associate Professor, Seoul National University (postdoc 2010-2012)
- Dr. Andrea Ferretti, Research Scientist (tenured), CNR and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (postdoc 2009-2011)
- Dr. Oliviero Andreussi, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas (postdoc 2008-2012, 2015-2017)
- Dr. Xiaofeng Qian, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M (postdoc, 2008-2011)
- Dr. Davide Ceresoli, Research Scientist (tenured), CNR and University of Milan (postdoc 2008-2011)
- Dr. Oswaldo Dieguez, Associate Professor, University of Tel Aviv (postdoc 2006-2007)
- Sejoong Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology (UST) Korea (PhD 2006-2011)
- Jivtesh Garg, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma (PhD 2006-2011)
- Yu-Tzu Elise Li, Assistant Professor, NTNU Taiwan (PhD 2006-2011)
- Heather Kulik, Assistant Professor, MIT (PhD 2004-2009)
- Dr. Nicola Bonini, Senior Lecturer (aka Assistant Professor), King’s College London (postdoc 2005-2011)
- Amelie Juhin
- Marco Fornari
- Matteo Salvetti
- Nicolas Poilvert
- Nicholas Singh-Miller
- Nicephore Bonnet
- Hatem Halal
- Dmitri Volja
- Samed Halilov
- 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).