Organizers

Alessia is a PhD student in Physics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata," specializing in computer simulations for materials science and biophysics. She holds a Master’s degree in Material Science and Technology, where her thesis investigated the interaction between polyethylene glycol molecules and a phosphorene layer using classical molecular dynamics simulations and ab initio calculations. She also earned her Bachelor’s degree in Material Science from the same university.

Marie earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and completed an international Master’s in Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry from the University of Bordeaux, including a project at University College London on the modelling of ferroelectric properties in perovskite compounds. Since then, she has been pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam, focusing on magnetic topological insulators. Her research integrates X-ray diffraction and density functional theory to analyze and model material structures.

Erik is a postdoctoral researcher at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA). He previously completed his doctorate at École Polytechnique in Paris. His research focuses on exploring competing collective instabilities in strongly correlated systems. A particular focus is on formalism development to give a theoretical description of the intricate phase diagrams which may emerge from the interplay between competing collective fluctuations in correlated lattice models.

Gabriele Fabbro, a PhD student at Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, specializes in developing relativistic coupled cluster theory within the DIRAC program. With a master's in theoretical chemistry from the TCCM program, his research focuses on high-order methods for accurate molecular property calculations, particularly for heavy-atom systems. 

Sarbajit Dutta is a PhD student at École Polytechnique in France, where he focuses on theoretical condensed matter physics. He holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in physics from India. His current research is centered on ab-initio methods, with a particular interest in theoretical spectroscopy. Specifically, he investigates plasmon satellites in low-density systems.

Muhammed obtained his bachelor’s degree from Bilkent University in Turkey. He then joined the PhD Track program at Institut Polytechnique de Paris. In Paris, he completed his Master 1 at École Polytechnique and Master 2 (ICFP) at École Normale Supérieure. He is now a PhD student at École Polytechnique and is temporarily working as a pre-doctoral researcher at Flatiron Institute in New York.