Simone IadanzaTeaching & PhD Courses Nanophotonics MICRO-516 Students understand and apply the physics of the interaction of light with semiconductors. They understand the operating mechanism of scaled photonic devices such as photodetectors, LEDs and lasers, as well as challenges and opportunities relating to their integration and dimensional scaling.
Zheru QiuBefore joining LPQM, I graduated from University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor's degree. In USTC, I actively worked in Prof. Zheng-tian Lu's research group and I mainly participated in the atomic magnetometer project led by Prof. Dong Sheng.
Pasquale ScarlinoI obtained my master's degree in Physics at the University of Salento, Lecce (Italy) in February 2011. During 2006-2011, I have also been a student of Scuola Superiore ISUFI (SSI). SSI is one of six schools of excellence established in Italy to develop the intellectual capital in technological and social sciences. I conducted an external Master thesis project during an 8 months internship in the Quantum Transport Group at TU Delft, under the supervision of Prof. L.M.K. Vandersypen. There, I implemented the Quantum Point Contact Radio-Frequency Reflectometry technique, which allows increasing the single-shot electron spin readout bandwidth and is currently routinely used in the group.I obtained my Ph.D. degree in February 2016, in the Spin Qubits group of Prof. L.M.K. Vandersypen at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience-Qutech (TU Delft). During my Ph.D. I have been leading the Si/SiGe spin qubits project, collaborating with the M. Eriksson Group at Wisconsin University. In parallel, I have been working on other different projects, in particular with GaAs depletion quantum dots, high impedance superconducting resonators, and surface acoustic wave resonators. I have been working as a Postdoc fellow in the group of Prof. A. Wallraff (Quantum Device Lab) at ETH Zurich. My main project, in collaboration with the group of Prof. K. Ensslin and Prof. T. Ihn, consisted in integrating semiconductor and superconductor technologies. Realizing a well-controlled interface between the semiconductor and superconductor-based quantum information technologies may allow harnessing the best of both device architectures, for example by providing an interface between strongly coupled charge state and high coherence spin states. Furthermore, it enables the possibility to explore light/matter hybridization in a class of solid-state systems and regimes that are new in the context of quantum optics.From June 2019 till September 2020, I have been a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Station Q Copenhagen and at the Center for Quantum Devices in Copenhagen, focusing on developing semiconductor-superconducting hybrid hardware for topologically protected quantum computation.Since October 2020, I am a tenure track Assistant Professor of Physics in the School of Basic Sciences at the EPFL where I founded the Hybrid Quantum Circuit (HQC) laboratory.
Julie Nathalie S GheysenProfessionals experiences PhD student 2018–2022 Université Catholique de Louvain
Teaching & PhD Courses Materials MSE-171 Introduction course of material science applied to usual building materials, especially concrete and metals. Description of their fabrication, mechanical and thermal properties and use in construction. Mechanical behaviour of materials MSE-234 This course provides an introduction to the mechanical behaviour, the processing, the structure and life-cycle o
Christian André Clément LafforgueTeaching & PhD Courses Electrical engineering science & technology EE-106 This course introduces the fundamental laws of electricity and the methods for analyzing linear electrical circuits, consisting of resistors, capacitors and inductors. We will start with the Direct Current circuits and then switch to single-phase and three-phase Alternating Current circuits.
Tara HabibiCurrent Work
SafeShore ProjectPrincipal Investigator Climate change will lead to significant sea level rise and more frequent, intense storm surges. These developments pose severe risks to coastal regions, threatening human lives, cultural heritage, and economic stability. Conventional shoreline protection methods, such as seawalls and armour blocks, have proven effective. However, their reliance on heavy concrete makes them slow to construct and environmentally unsustainable. To address these challenges, t
Marianne LiebiMarianne Liebi is Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at EPF Lausanne and head of the Laboratory for X-ray characterization of materials (cam-X) and the group “
Structure and Mechanics of Advanced Materials
” at PSI. She has been appointed in 2021 at EPFL where she is part of the Institute of Materials within the School of Engineering. Marianne Liebi studied Food Science at ETH Zurich where she also obtained her PhD in 2013 in the Laboratory of Food Process Engineering lead by Prof. Erich J. Windhab. Within this project started using small-angle neutron scattering at PSI for the characterization of soft-matter, namely of magnetic alignable self-assembly structures. As a Postdoc in the coherent X-ray scattering group at the Swiss Light Source she worked from 2013-2016 on method development in SAXS tensor tomography. In 2016 she moved to Sweden where after a short period at the NanoMAX beamline, MAXIV Laboratory, Lund she started her own research group in 2017 as Assistant Professor at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and became Docent in Physics in spring 2020. She kept her affiliation at Chalmers University of Technology, where still part of her group is located (
Liebi research group
) when moving back to Switzerland in 2020 where she was Scientific Group Leader in the Center for X-ray Analytics at Empa, St.Gallen, before starting the joint position between EPFL and PSI in November 2021.
Gopal Narmada NaiduExpertise
Researcher with 8+ years of experience in computational physics and multiphysics modeling, focused on numerical simulation of light–matter interactions and photon propagation. Proficient in FEM, FDTD, and Monte Carlo methods to model energy conversion and optical behavior, with additional expertise in AI/ML techniques for model optimization and design exploration. Strong background in photonic devices, photo-thermal, thermo-optical effects, and nanostructure engineering. Adept at translating compl
Victor Carle Adrien BoureauExpertise
Aberration-corrected TEM and STEMQuantative microscopyElectron diffractionStrain mapping (GPA, precession 4D-STEM)Electric and magnetic field mapping (electron holography, DPC, 4D-STEM)
Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Pierpaolo Ranieri Courses Scanning and Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy MSE-735 This intensive course discusses advanced TEM techniques such as: scanning TEM; analytical TEM using EELS and EDX; aberration corrected imaging; and image s
Andrea VezzosiAndrea Vezzosi is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Ursula Rothlisberger at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, EPFL (Switzerland). He earned his Ph.D. in Physics and Nanosciences from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2024, where he investigated spin–orbit coupling and topological states in core–shell semiconductor nanowires. During his doctoral studies, he developed nwkp, an open-source Python library for computing the band structure of core–shell nanowires using
Valerio PiazzaTeaching & PhD PhD Students Claire Valentine Blaga, Matilde Cantele, Julia Sarah Marhic Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Michele Zendrini Courses Functional properties of materials MSE-210 The main objective of this course is to present the concepts allowing the understanding of the fundamental principles that enable to predict the properties of the materials. The goal is that with these concepts, one will be able to realize material design and/or to understand novel materials.
Virginia CarnevaliExpertise
Theoretical condensed matter physics: theory and simulations of structural, electronic, magnetic and optical properties (Quantum ESPRESSO), ab-initio molecular dynamics (CP2K), and Kinetic Monte Carlo codes; automate Quantum ESPRESSO workflows and high-throughput calculations (AFLOWÏ€); generation of tight-binding hamiltonians, transport properties, and data analysis (PAOFLOW).Materials for photovoltaic: Pb- and Sn-based organic perovskites; investigation and improvement of the HTL-ETL interaction
Anja TiedePronouns
she/her
I am a researcher at the interface of photonics and materials science; my interests and research contributions relate to the use of correlated-disordered structures for light management for ultra-thin film photovoltaic applications. This interdisciplinary research requires expertise in both simulation and nanofabrication of semiconductor devices. My career started in Germany, with a degree in microsystems engineering from the University of Applied Sciences of Regensburg and a master's in ph
Savvas SaloustrosEducation PhD | Construction Engineering 2017 – 2017 UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain MSc | Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions (SAHC) 2013 – 2013 University of Padova, Italy & UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain Diploma | Civil Engineering 2012 – 2012 National Technical University of Athens, Greece Professionals experiences Co-founder & Board Member 2019–2019 FENECStructural Engineer 2019–2019 Windmill Structural Constultants, Barcel
Zihan LiGraduated from University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor’s degree in optics. And now, I am working on LiNbO3 integrated photonic device and related nanofabrication technology.
Alisa DavydovaEducation BSc in Physics | Department of Theoretical physics, Classical and Quantum Field Theory 2015 – 2019 Lomonosov Moscow State University MSc in Photonics and Quantum Materials | Nanomaterials application for Nonlinear Optics 2019 – 2021 Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Stefana ParaschoTeaching & PhD PhD Students Jingwen Wang, Gabriel Vallat, Maxence Grangeot, Eleni Maria Skevaki, Wenqian Yang, Megi Sinani Courses Capitalizing on Uncertainty AR-809 SUMMER SCHOOL - Capitalizing on Uncertainty is a 6-day Summer school exploring uncertainty as a productive resource in design and fabrication through lectures, hands-on experiments, and the collaborative design and construction of a full-scale structure in a human-robot fabrication setting. Digital design and making: A criti
Xurong LiExpertise
Photonic integrated circuits, terahertz optoelectronics, terahertz imaging systems
Xurong Li received B.S. degree from Peking University in 2016. He obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Prof. Mona Jarrahi's group in 2018 and 2022, respectively, working on terahertz optoelectronics and systems. He continued as a postdoc scholar in the same group from January 2023 to May 2024. Xurong joined the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (LPQM) in
Anat SiddharthExpertise
Nonlinear Optics, Integrated Photonics, Frequency Comb, Nonreciprocity
Research Interest Nonlinear Optics, Integrated Photonics, Frequency Comb, Nonreciprocity
