Pascal Alexander SchouwinkTeaching & PhD Courses Advanced Solid State and Surface Characterization CH-633 State-of-the-art surface/thin film characterization methods of polycrystalline/nano/amorphous materials. Selected topics from X-ray scattering (SAXS/GISAXS, PDF, GIWAXS, HRXRD), electronic and optical spectroscopy (XPS, AES, SERS, TERS), scanning probe and electron microscopy (STM, AFM, HRTEM, SEM). Principles and Applications of X-ray Diffraction CH-632 Basic theoretical aspects of Crystallograph
Christoph BostedtTeaching & PhD PhD Students Eloisa Florence Manetti, Wenyi Jiang, Hankai Zhang, Loïc Lucien Cédric Bassement, Silas Strebel, Eliot Jermann Past EPFL PhD Students Jonas Knurr, Ningchen Yang Courses Optical methods in chemistry CH-417 Introduction and application of photon based tools for chemical sciences: from basic concepts to optical and x-ray lasers Physical Chemistry Seminar 1: Trends CH-643 Students can learn about the broader research in Phyiscal Chemistry and broaden
Wen Hua BiExpertise
X-Ray Crystallography, Software Evaluation
Iurii TimrovProfessional employment
Postdoctoral researcherFebruary 2016 - presentAdvisor: Prof. Nicola MarzariPlace: STI IMX THEOS, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)Postdoctoral researcherJuly 2013 - January 2016Advisor: Prof. Stefano BaroniPlace: Condensed Matter Sector, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste, Italy)Postdoctoral researcherApril 2013 - June 2013Advisor: Dr. Nathalie VastPlace: Laboratoire des Solides Irradies, Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France)
Education
PhDSeptember 2009 - March 2013Advisor: Dr. Nathalie Vast Place: Laboratoire des Solides Irradi'es, Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, FranceTitle: Ab initio study of plasmons and electron-phonon coupling in bismuth: from free-carrier absorption towards a new method for electron energy-loss spectroscopyDate of defense: 27.03.2013Honors: PhD degree in physics with honors ("Tres honorable")Master in PhysicsSeptember 2008 - June 2009Place: Department of Theoretical Physics, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)Honors: Master's degree with honorsBachelor in PhysicsSeptember 2004 - June 2008Place: Department of Theoretical Physics, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)Honors: Bachelor's degree with honorsHigh School StudiesSeptember 1994 - June 2004Place: Collegium 11 (Chernigov, Ukraine)Honors: Honors degree with a Gold medal
Laura PiveteauTeaching & PhD Courses Basic and advanced NMR - Level 1 A (EPFL) CH-601(x) Basic theoretical and experimental aspects of NMR will be taught. Students will be familarized with modern NMR spectrometers. Basic and advanced NMR - Level 1 B (Sion) CH-601(y) Basic theoretical and experimental aspects of NMR. Students will be familarized with modern NMR spectrometers. Basic and advanced NMR - Level 2 (EPFL) CH-703 The goal is to give a sound theoretical and practi
Mirjana Dimitrievska2020 – present ScientistÉcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland2016 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow (dual appointment) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, USA
2016 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow (dual appointment) NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA 2013 – 2016 Marie Curie PhD Fellowship Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Barcelona, Spain2015 Guest researcher (two months)ABENGOA Solar, Seville, Spain 2015 Guest researcher (two months)University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom 2014 Guest researcher (two months)Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain
2013 Guest researcher (four months)Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Berlin, Germany
2010 – 2013 Research Assistant University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Francesco ArmillottaExpertise
Surface Science, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Desorption Spectroscopy, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy
I am presently a Postdoc in the Laboratory of Nanostructures at Surfaces (LSN) group, interested in the catalytic properties of surface-confined (sub)nano-structures. Education PhD | 2019 – 2023 University of Trieste
Teaching & PhD Courses Solid state physics PHYS-337 This lecture gives an introduction to Solid State Physics. We