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Electronic Structure Theory and Methods Development
Tommaso Nottoli
Tommaso is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa. He received his Master's Degree in Physical Chemistry at the University of Pisa in 2020 and the PhD at the same institution in 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Filippo Lipparini and Prof. Jürgen Gauss. His works primarily focus on employing rank-reduction techniques to speed up quantum chemical calculations, in particular CASSCF and Coupled Cluster. Currently, he is working on interfacing the CFour software with the OpenMMPol library to support polarizable embedding QM/MM calculations.
Abdallah El Sahili
Abdallah earned his PhD from École Polytechnique in Paris. His research focuses on theoretical advancements in the Green’s function framework within many-body perturbation theory to predict the electronic properties of materials. He investigates existing methods and develops new approaches that extend beyond the standard GW approximation, aiming to improve both the theoretical understanding and numerical modeling of complex materials.
Maryam Azizi
Maryam is a researcher in computational physics with a background in project management, algorithm development, and computational modeling. She has been a member of the NOMAD CoE at Université Catholique de Louvain, where she works on code development and high-performance computing projects. Maryam holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Wrocław University of Technology and has contributed to over 15 scientific publications. She is skilled in programming and FEM tools.
Optical Properties of Materials
Marta Monti
Marta completed her Ph.D. in computational chemistry under the supervision of Mauro Stener at the University of Trieste in 2024, with research focused on the interplay between chirality and dynamics of complex systems. She then joined Ali Hassanali’s group at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste) as a postdoctoral researcher, where she is currently studying the photoluminescence of non-aromatic systems, such as amino acid-based crystals, and crystalline ice. Her work aims to find new classes of biocompatible and eco-friendly luminescent materials, with potential applications in sustainable technology and biophotonics
Elisa Serrano Richaud
Elisa Serrano Richaud is a postdoctoral researcher in material science. She completed her PhD in 2024 in the Laboratoire d’études des Microstrutures (LEM), where she focused on the theoretical modelling of the electronic and optical properties of 2D lateral heterostructures. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Centre d’Energi Atomique (CEA). Her postdoctoral research is centered on halide perovskites, more pecisely investigating the interface of these materials with charge transfer layer in photovoltaic cells.
Vibrational Properties of Materials and Transport
Ivan Maliyov
Dr. Ivan Maliyov received his BSc in Applied Physics from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. He then earned an MSc degree in Nanosciences from École Polytechnique and Univérsité Paris-Saclay in France. As a part of a dual-degree program, he has also completed an MSc in Medical Physics at Kharkiv National University. In 2019, he received his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in France. From 2019 to 2023, Dr. Maliyov conducted postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, focusing on real-time electron-phonon interactions. From 2023 to 2024, he worked on the uncertainty quantification in atomic systems at Aix-Marseille Université, France. Currently, Dr. Maliyov is a postdoctoral scholar at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, where he develops Bayesian optimization methods for electronic structure problems.
Strongly Correlated Systems and Magnetism
Francesca Paoletti
Francesca is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg, working with Prof. Giorgio Sangiovanni. She obtained her PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from SISSA in 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Massimo Capone and Dr. Adriano Amaricci, with a thesis on Static and Dynamical Correlations in Topological Insulators. Her research focuses on strongly correlated topological systems, and she is currently employing slave rotors technique to investigate various aspects of these models.
Pauline Besserve
Pauline is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. After completing a master in theoretical physics at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, she earned a PhD from École Polytechnique in Paris. Her work focuses on developing techniques to understand and harness the power of quantum computers before fault tolerance is achieved, in order to address correlated fermion models using hybrid quantum-classical algorithms.
High Performance Computing
Aleksandar Zivkovic
Graduated high-school teacher of physics and computer science (BSc+MEdu), ventured into theoretical chemistry (PhD), worked in earth sciences and geochemistry (postdoc), and currently paid by MSCA COFUND + CAU Kiel to bring forward material interfaces via some more modelling (fellowship). I.e., my research aims to develop computational models for accurately simulating material interfaces with tailored functional properties, focusing on predictive algorithms, multiscale modelling frameworks, and synergistic integration of existing methodologies. ...zzz... The idea is to enhance the design of heterostructures for energy applications by addressing challenges in interfacial stability, electronic structure calculations, and device-relevant conditions. Not to be taken too serious. Would do (almost) anything for a laugh (following the great L. Nielsen). Good coffee, good music, let's do some science!
Industry Session
Fabio Caleffi
Fabio Caleffi earned his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from SISSA in 2022. His academic research focused on the study of strongly correlated lattice systems through innovative semi-analytical techniques, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between competing collective fluctuations in building strong correlations across quantum criticalities. He currently holds a position as Senior Analyst at the Pricing & Financial Innovation Unit in Prometeia (Bologna), where he specialises in financial modelling projects and the valuation of complex financial instruments, including derivatives, corporate shares, and fund investments.
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