John Martin KolinskiDr. Kolinski studied Applied Mathematics (Sc.M.) and Applied Physics (Ph.D.) at Harvard University, completing a PhD under the supervision of L. Mahadevan and Shmuel Rubinstein on the role of air in droplet impact. John did his post-doc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel supported by the Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship. At HUJI, he worked on interfacial instabilities in soft matter in the labs of Eran Sharon and Jay Fineberg. John continues his research into interfacial mechanics at EPFL in EMSI, his newly founded laboratory for the study of Engineering Mechanics of Soft Interfaces.
Jian Rui SohEducation DPhil | Condensed Matter Physics 2016 – 2019 University of Oxford BSc | Physics 2012 – 2015 Imperial College London
Pascal Alexander SchouwinkEnseignement et PhD Cours Advanced Solid State and Surface Characterization CH-633 Principles and Applications of X-ray Diffraction CH-632
Andrea MerliEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Spencer Collaviti
Alina KleimenovaEnseignement et PhD Cours Projet de Physique II PHYS-422 L'étudiant.e applique les compétences acquises au cours de ses études dans une recherche effectuée dans l'un des laboratoires de la section de physique sous l'encadrement d'un.e enseignant.e de la section. Elle/il est présent dans le laboratoire un jour par semaine.
Jakob HeierEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Vahid Charkhesht A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Nicolas Alexandre Serge Leclaire, Donatas Gesevicius, Surendra Babu Anantharaman, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh, Shungui Deng Cours Modern photovoltaic technologies PHYS-609
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
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
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Enseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Gian Gentinetta, Linda Mauron, Samuele Piccinelli, Alessandro Sinibaldi, Shao Hen Chiew, David Linteau, Clemens Giuliani, Ali Goodarzi, Gianluca Grosso, Ruize Ma, Ekaterina Pankovets A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Dian Wu, Julien Sebastian Gacon, Gabriel Maria Pescia, Barison Stefano, Imelda Romero Cours Advanced computational physics PHYS-339 Le cours couvre l'algèbre linéaire dense/creuse, les méthodes variati Lenka ZdeborováLenka Zdeborová is a Professor of Physics and of Computer Science in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where she leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory. She received a PhD in physics from University Paris-Sud and from Charles University in Prague in 2008. She spent two years in the Los Alamos National Laboratory as the Director's Postdoctoral Fellow. Between 2010 and 2020 she was a researcher at CNRS working in the Institute of Theoretical Physics in CEA Saclay, France. In 2014, she was awarded the CNRS bronze medal, in 2016 Philippe Meyer prize in theoretical physics and an ERC Starting Grant, in 2018 the Irène Joliot-Curie prize, in 2021 the Gibbs lectureship of AMS. She is an editorial board member for Journal of Physics A, Physical Review E, Physical Review X, SIMODS, Machine Learning: Science and Technology, and Information and Inference. Lenka's expertise is in applications of concepts from statistical physics, such as advanced mean field methods, replica method and related message-passing algorithms, to problems in machine learning, signal processing, inference and optimization. She enjoys erasing the boundaries between theoretical physics, mathematics and computer science.
Loïc Jean Pierre HerviouEnseignement et PhD Cours Solid state physics III PHYS-419 Le but de ce cours est de proposer une introduction à la théorie de quelques phénomènes remarquables en matière condensée tels que l'effet Hall quantique ou la supraconductivité.
