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Semester Project and Thesis

The SPRING lab offers project opportunities for BSc, MSc, and PhD students. We encourage interested students to have a look at the Thesis & Project Guidelines from the MLO lab , where you will gain an understanding about what can be expected of us and what we expect from students.

Last Update: 22nd November 2023

How to apply

Please, apply via Google form (login may be required) . You will need to specify which project(s) you are interested in, why you are interested, and if you have any relevant experience in this area.

External students , i.e., students who are not from EPFL nor ETHZ, should get in touch with the supervisors of the project(s) via email.

Applications are processed in two rounds. For each round, we collect applications before the deadline. Then, we will get back to selected applicants during the corresponding “First Contact From Supervisors” period. If we do not get back to you during the indicated period, it means that we probably do not have space any more.

We will make a mark on the project once it is taken. We strongly recommend that you apply as soon as possible for best consideration, since we expect most projects would be taken after the first round. However, we will leave the form open after the second round and consider all applications, if there are still available projects at that time.

Early deadline: 11th December 2023

First Contact From Supervisors: 12th December 2023 - 22nd December 2023

Late deadline: 1st February 2024

First Contact From Supervisors: 2nd February 2024 - 16th February 2024

If you encounter any technical issue, please get in touch with Boya Wang .

Projects on Cryptography

Crypto1: usable and interpretable concrete uc security taken.

Universal Composability (UC) is a model to prove that a given cryptographic primitive remains secure when arbitrarily composed (e.g., sequentially, or concurrently) with (the same or) other protocols. Thus, UC security is a very important and desirable goal for real-world protocols, where we often cannot make the assumption that a cryptographic protocol will run in isolation.

The strong guarantee of UC security comes at a cost: UC proofs are notoriously hard to write, and the resulting security bounds are complex and involve many parameters. This project aims to improve the usability and applicability of UC security results to real-world protocols for a range of cryptographic primitives.

In this project, the student will:

• Read UC security proofs for various primitives (e.g., zero-knowledge proofs, digital signatures, anonymous credentials) and build an understanding of their complexity as well as usability and interpretability issues.
• Build understanding of the interplay between the theoretical UC results and concrete metrics stemming from real-world deployments (e.g., concrete bounds of best-known attacks, real-world parameter regimes, efficiency metrics).
• Build a tool (script/interface/frontend) to improve the usefulness of the UC results for practitioners.

Requirements

• Familiarity with proof techniques for cryptographic primitives, applied cryptography
• (optional) Familiarity with UC security or simulation-based proofs
• (optional) Knowledge of SageMath, Knowledge of frameworks for graphical interfaces

Applying to this project

This semester project is aimed at one M.Sc. student. The student will work with Christian Knabenhans (SPRING lab) and Giacomo Fenzi (COMPSEC lab).

Projects on Machine Learning

Ml1: split backdoor in multimodal ml.

Backdoors are typically one media. So are detection algorithms. Multimodal learning could in theory allow adversaries to avoid detection of their poisoned data by breaking the backdoor in parts to gain stealthiness.

• Experience with Python.
• Knowledge of ML basics.
• Adversarial ML a plus.

This semester project is aimed at one MSc student. The student will work with Mathilde Raynal .

ML2: On the Relationship of Content Moderation and Content Promotion Models

Moderation models are usually blackbox, meaning that not much is known. On the other hand, it is possible to find advertisement models that are open-source. The goal of the project is to explore any correlation between the two approaches using standard datasets.

• NLP is a plus.

This semester project is aimed at one or two MSc students. The students will work with Mathilde Raynal .

ML3: Data Extraction Attacks Against ML Classifiers Taken

Machine learning models are increasingly deployed on devices (so-called edge machine learning) to reduce latency and inference costs. In spite of their appeal, on-device releases expose a lot of information through the weights of the model, raising concerns about the leakage of sensitive information about the model’s training dataset.

The goal of this project is to explore the feasibility of reconstruction attacks based on a novel “transposing” technique. More specifically, it has been shown that a model can be trained with a secondary purpose of reconstructing training records in the backward direction, in addition to its primary classification purpose executed in the forward direction [1]. This is achieved through a novel ``transposing’’ technique whereby the reconstruction functionality is learnt jointly with the classification task and can be executed backwards, from the output (last) layer to the input (first) layer.

• Solid grasp of machine learning fundamentals.
• Previous experience with Pytorch and training deep neural networks.

This semester or master thesis project is aimed at one M.Sc. student. The student will work with Ana-Maria Cretu .

[1] Amit, G., Levy, M., & Mirsky, Y. (2023). Transpose Attack: Stealing Datasets with Bidirectional Training. NDSS 2024.

ML4: Characterizing False Positives of Perceptual Hashing Algorithms Taken

End-to-end-encryption (E2EE) in messaging platforms allows people to communicate privately. The widespread adoption of E2EE however raises concerns that it facilitates the sharing of illegal content such as child sexual abuse media. Client-side scanning (CSS) is one of the main solutions envisioned by researchers and policymakers for detecting illegal content in E2EE communications. The idea behind this system is to scan all images shared by individuals directly on their devices before they are encrypted. The scanning consists of (1) computing a fingerprint of the image and (2) matching it against a database of fingerprints of known illegal images. If the image shared by the individual is close enough to any of the images in the database, then it is deemed a match and would be shared unencrypted for a manual analysis. The fingerprints are computed using a perceptual hashing algorithm such as a deep neural embedding model.

The goal of this project is to characterize the false positives of perceptual hashing algorithms. False positives are innocuous images wrongly flagged as matches to the database because their fingerprint closely matches one of the fingerprints in the database. False positives would be shared unencrypted with the service provider or relevant authorities for a manual check, violating user privacy and potentially leading to user blocking. Therefore, it is crucial to understand if there are any biases towards particular image categories.

• Previous experience with Pytorch.
• Previous experience in training convolutional neural networks.

This master thesis project is aimed at one M.Sc. student. The student will work with Ana-Maria Cretu .

[1] Jain, S., Creţu, A. M., Cully, A., & de Montjoye, Y. A. (2023, May). Deep perceptual hashing algorithms with hidden dual purpose: when client-side scanning does facial recognition. In 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) (pp. 234-252). IEEE.

[2] Prokos, J., Fendley, N., Green, M., Schuster, R., Tromer, E., Jois, T., & Cao, Y. (2023). Squint hard enough: attacking perceptual hashing with adversarial machine learning. In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23) (pp. 211-228).

Projects on System Security

Sys1: privacy risk assessment for humanitarian data publishing taken.

Humanitarian organisations, such as the ICRC, have a mandate to assist and protect crisis-affected populations and report their activities through various means, including sharing statistics both publicly and with donors (see, for instance, the ICRC’s Annual Report 2022 ). As it stands, there is no clear methodology for assessing the privacy risk of such data sharing; despite the known risk that even sharing aggregate data can result in harmful inferences (see, for instance, this blog post that explains a certain type of statistical privacy attack).

In this project, we will build on our previous work, to develop a risk assessment methodology that is data-driven, i.e., takes into account quantitative measures computed on the data to be released, and compatible with existing organisational structures.

• Basic programming skills in Python
• Good theoretical understanding of privacy notions
• Good theoretical understanding of privacy threat modelling
• Advanced knowledge on privacy risks of aggregate data publishing is a plus

This semester project or master thesis is aimed at one MSc student. The student will work with Theresa Stadler .

SYS2: Preventing Harm from Recommender Systems Taken

Recommender systems, such as those used in online advertising , are known to pose substantial risks to the individuals they concern. Articles on this topic mostly talk about privacy risks caused by the large amounts of data collected to power the machine learning models behind those systems. As a reaction, many service providers have moved towards privacy-friendly recommender systems that fulfil the same function as their traditional counterparts; but do so in a way that supposedly avoids privacy risks through, for instance, decentralised model training or encryption . In this project, we want to question whether such systems that avoid privacy risks actually solve the problem they claim to solve : to eliminate not just privacy invasions through machine learning-based attacks but the potential harms that might result as a consequence.

• Programming skills in Python including machine learning libraries such as torch or tensorflow required
• Basic knowledge of machine learning
• Prior experience with multi-party computation or homomorphic encryption frameworks would be a plus

Projects on Web Security

Web1: chrome manifest v3 impact on privacy enhancing browser addons taken.

Around a third of all internet users (1.76 Billion users) rely on Ad-blockers to browse the internet privately. Ad-blockers are browser extensions (small applets that run on your browser) that continuously filter network requests and elements in your webpage for Ads and trackers that are trying to monitor you. Ad-blockers are part of a bigger family of extensions called “Privacy Enhancing Technologies” or PETs for short. Since their inception, there has been a mouse-and-cat game between Privacy addon developers and web marketers.

Browser Addons interact with the page you are browsing using APIs specified by the browser. In June 2024, Chrome (a very popular browser) will be migrating its APIs from “Manifest V2” to “ Manifest V3 ”. This update changes the fundamental way addons, and especially adblockers, interact with the webpages and restrict their core functionality: (1) transitioning from background pages to “service workers”; (2) limiting network request modification by addons; and (3) removing remotely hosted code execution. Since this announcement, the adblocker community raised their concerns and is trying hard to prepare their addons for this shift.

This project aims to understand and characterize how the change to manifest v3 will impact PET addons. By studying the impact on the cost of privacy, we hope this project helps shed light on the important arguments in the discussion between browsers and the ad-filtering community.

• Collect and analyze the various PETS-related chrome addons for common functionality, core APIs…
• Read and understand the Manifest V3 proposal in depth.
• Design a systematic manner to identify parts of the addon functionality that can be easily substituted, or remain broken in the future after introducing V3.
• Writeup to identify the negative impact of Manifest V3 on existing PETs and future PETs and (potentially) outline countermeasures.
• Previous experience with Python and Javascript
• Good grasp of Web development concepts such as HTTP, HTML, and CSS
• (optional) Previous experience with Selenium and/or crawling and/or scraping

This semester project is aimed at one MSc student. The student will work with Saiid El Hajj Chehade .

WEB2: Browser Cookie Privacy Measure Taken

As you visit any page on your favorite browser, you need to fetch the page from some server. Your browser uses the HTTP protocol to fetch the necessary bits. But, the HTTP protocol is stateless: every request is independent. But, as you know, shopping websites for example can keep track of your cart across multiple visits. How does it pull it off? It uses “ Cookies ”. Cookies are small files sent by the server with the HTTP response and stored by your browser. In the example given, the server can request from your browser to store cookies about the item IDs in your bag. Cookies are also used to keep you logged in to a website.

But cookies can also be used maliciously to track you across multiple websites. Marketers can then sell your browsing patterns and identify your interests to serve you personalized Ads. But most often, these malicious cookies are well obfuscated to be differentiated from the cookies with sensitive info like your user session.

Isolating sensitive and necessary cookies is essential to many domains. For example, Tor has to block all your cookies to prevent fingerprinting. In this project, we will explore how sensitive cookies look and behave and try to use modern methods to identify them among other cookies.

• Crawl websites, collect cookies, and curate a labelled dataset of sensitive/shareable cookies.
• Read and summarise the literature about cookie classification.
• Adapt, propose, prototype, and evaluate methods to classify these cookies.
• Previous experience in Python and Javascript
• Good grasp of fundamental machine-learning techniques

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Physics Theses, Dissertations, and Masters Projects

Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Ab Initio Computations Of Structural Properties In Solids By Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo , Siyuan Chen

Constraining Of The Minerνa Medium Energy Neutrino Flux Using Neutrino-Electron Scattering , Luis Zazueta

Experimental Studies Of Neutral Particles And The Isotope Effect In The Edge Of Tokamak Plasmas , Ryan Chaban

From The Hubbard Model To Coulomb Interactions: Quantum Monte Carlo Computations In Strongly Correlated Systems , Zhi-Yu Xiao

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Broadband Infrared Microspectroscopy and Nanospectroscopy of Local Material Properties: Experiment and Modeling , Patrick McArdle

Edge Fueling And Neutral Density Studies Of The Alcator C-Mod Tokamak Using The Solps-Iter Code , Richard M. Reksoatmodjo

Electronic Transport In Topological Superconducting Heterostructures , Joseph Jude Cuozzo

Inclusive and Inelastic Scattering in Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions , Amy Filkins

Investigation Of Stripes, Spin Density Waves And Superconductivity In The Ground State Of The Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model , Hao Xu

Partial Wave Analysis Of Strange Mesons Decaying To K + Π − Π + In The Reaction Γp → K + Π + Π − Λ(1520) And The Commissioning Of The Gluex Dirc Detector , Andrew Hurley

Partial Wave Analysis of the ωπ− Final State Photoproduced at GlueX , Amy Schertz

Quantum Sensing For Low-Light Imaging , Savannah Cuozzo

Radiative Width of K*(892) from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics , Archana Radhakrishnan

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

AC & DC Zeeman Interferometric Sensing With Ultracold Trapped Atoms On A Chip , Shuangli Du

Calculation Of Gluon Pdf In The Nucleon Using Pseudo-Pdf Formalism With Wilson Flow Technique In LQCD , Md Tanjib Atique Khan

Dihadron Beam Spin Asymmetries On An Unpolarized Hydrogen Target With Clas12 , Timothy Barton Hayward

Excited J-- Resonances In Meson-Meson Scattering From Lattice Qcd , Christopher Johnson

Forward & Off-Forward Parton Distributions From Lattice Qcd , Colin Paul Egerer

Light-Matter Interactions In Quasi-Two-Dimensional Geometries , David James Lahneman

Proton Spin Structure from Simultaneous Monte Carlo Global QCD Analysis , Yiyu Zhou

Radiofrequency Ac Zeeman Trapping For Neutral Atoms , Andrew Peter Rotunno

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

A First-Principles Study of the Nature of the Insulating Gap in VO2 , Christopher Hendriks

Competing And Cooperating Orders In The Three-Band Hubbard Model: A Comprehensive Quantum Monte Carlo And Generalized Hartree-Fock Study , Adam Chiciak

Development Of Quantum Information Tools Based On Multi-Photon Raman Processes In Rb Vapor , Nikunjkumar Prajapati

Experiments And Theory On Dynamical Hamiltononian Monodromy , Matthew Perry Nerem

Growth Engineering And Characterization Of Vanadium Dioxide Films For Ultraviolet Detection , Jason Andrew Creeden

Insulator To Metal Transition Dynamics Of Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films , Scott Madaras

Quantitative Analysis Of EKG And Blood Pressure Waveforms , Denise Erin McKaig

Study Of Scalar Extensions For Physics Beyond The Standard Model , Marco Antonio Merchand Medina

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Beyond the Standard Model: Flavor Symmetry, Nonperturbative Unification, Quantum Gravity, and Dark Matter , Shikha Chaurasia

Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Van Der Waals Systems , Yohanes Satrio Gani

Extraction and Parametrization of Isobaric Trinucleon Elastic Cross Sections and Form Factors , Scott Kevin Barcus

Interfacial Forces of 2D Materials at the Oil–Water Interface , William Winsor Dickinson

Scattering a Bose-Einstein Condensate Off a Modulated Barrier , Andrew James Pyle

Topics in Proton Structure: BSM Answers to its Radius Puzzle and Lattice Subtleties within its Momentum Distribution , Michael Chaim Freid

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

A Measurement of Nuclear Effects in Deep Inelastic Scattering in Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions , Anne Norrick

Applications of Lattice Qcd to Hadronic Cp Violation , David Brantley

Charge Dynamics in the Metallic and Superconducting States of the Electron-Doped 122-Type Iron Arsenides , Zhen Xing

Dynamics of Systems With Hamiltonian Monodromy , Daniel Salmon

Exotic Phases in Attractive Fermions: Charge Order, Pairing, and Topological Signatures , Peter Rosenberg

Extensions of the Standard Model Higgs Sector , Richard Keith Thrasher

First Measurements of the Parity-Violating and Beam-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetries in Elastic Electron-Aluminum Scattering , Kurtis David Bartlett

Lattice Qcd for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Short Range Operator Contributions , Henry Jose Monge Camacho

Probe of Electroweak Interference Effects in Non-Resonant Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering , James Franklyn Dowd

Proton Spin Structure from Monte Carlo Global Qcd Analyses , Jacob Ethier

Searching for A Dark Photon in the Hps Experiment , Sebouh Jacob Paul

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

A global normal form for two-dimensional mode conversion , David Gregory Johnston

Computational Methods of Lattice Boltzmann Mhd , Christopher Robert Flint

Computational Studies of Strongly Correlated Quantum Matter , Hao Shi

Determination of the Kinematics of the Qweak Experiment and Investigation of an Atomic Hydrogen Møller Polarimeter , Valerie Marie Gray

Disconnected Diagrams in Lattice Qcd , Arjun Singh Gambhir

Formulating Schwinger-Dyson Equations for Qed Propagators in Minkowski Space , Shaoyang Jia

Highly-Correlated Electron Behavior in Niobium and Niobium Compound Thin Films , Melissa R. Beebe

Infrared Spectroscopy and Nano-Imaging of La0.67Sr0.33Mno3 Films , Peng Xu

Investigation of Local Structures in Cation-Ordered Microwave Dielectric a Solid-State Nmr and First Principle Calculation Study , Rony Gustam Kalfarisi

Measurement of the Elastic Ep Cross Section at Q2 = 0.66, 1.10, 1.51 and 1.65 Gev2 , YANG WANG

Modeling The Gross-Pitaevskii Equation using The Quantum Lattice Gas Method , Armen M. Oganesov

Optical Control of Multi-Photon Coherent Interactions in Rubidium Atoms , Gleb Vladimirovich Romanov

Plasmonic Approaches and Photoemission: Ag-Based Photocathodes , Zhaozhu Li

Quantum and Classical Manifestation of Hamiltonian Monodromy , Chen Chen

Shining Light on The Phase Transitions of Vanadium Dioxide , Tyler J. Huffman

Superconducting Thin Films for The Enhancement of Superconducting Radio Frequency Accelerator Cavities , Matthew Burton

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Ac Zeeman Force with Ultracold Atoms , Charles Fancher

A Measurement of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in Aluminum and its Contribution to A Measurement of the Proton's Weak Charge , Joshua Allen Magee

An improved measurement of the Muon Neutrino charged current Quasi-Elastic cross-section on Hydrocarbon at Minerva , Dun Zhang

Applications of High Energy Theory to Superconductivity and Cosmic Inflation , Zhen Wang

A Precision Measurement of the Weak Charge of Proton at Low Q^2: Kinematics and Tracking , Siyuan Yang

Compton Scattering Polarimetry for The Determination of the Proton’S Weak Charge Through Measurements of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry of 1H(E,e')P , Juan Carlos Cornejo

Disorder Effects in Dirac Heterostructures , Martin Alexander Rodriguez-Vega

Electron Neutrino Appearance in the Nova Experiment , Ji Liu

Experimental Apparatus for Quantum Pumping with a Bose-Einstein Condensate. , Megan K. Ivory

Investigating Proton Spin Structure: A Measurement of G_2^p at Low Q^2 , Melissa Ann Cummings

Neutrino Flux Prediction for The Numi Beamline , Leonidas Aliaga Soplin

Quantitative Analysis of Periodic Breathing and Very Long Apnea in Preterm Infants. , Mary A. Mohr

Resolution Limits of Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry with Pulsed Source , Guangzhi Qu

Solving Problems of the Standard Model through Scale Invariance, Dark Matter, Inflation and Flavor Symmetry , Raymundo Alberto Ramos

Study of Spatial Structure of Squeezed Vacuum Field , Mi Zhang

Study of Variations of the Dynamics of the Metal-Insulator Transition of Thin Films of Vanadium Dioxide with An Ultra-Fast Laser , Elizabeth Lee Radue

Thin Film Approaches to The Srf Cavity Problem: Fabrication and Characterization of Superconducting Thin Films , Douglas Beringer

Turbulent Particle Transport in H-Mode Plasmas on Diii-D , Xin Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Ballistic atom pumps , Tommy Byrd

Determination of the Proton's Weak Charge via Parity Violating e-p Scattering. , Joshua Russell Hoskins

Electronic properties of chiral two-dimensional materials , Christopher Lawrence Charles Triola

Heavy flavor interactions and spectroscopy from lattice quantum chromodynamics , Zachary S. Brown

Some properties of meson excited states from lattice QCD , Ekaterina V. Mastropas

Sterile Neutrino Search with MINOS. , Alena V. Devan

Ultracold rubidium and potassium system for atom chip-based microwave and RF potentials , Austin R. Ziltz

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Enhancement of MS Signal Processing for Improved Cancer Biomarker Discovery , Qian Si

Whispering-gallery mode resonators for nonlinear and quantum optical applications , Matthew Thomas Simons

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Applications of Holographic Dualities , Dylan Judd Albrecht

A search for a new gauge boson , Eric Lyle Jensen

Experimental Generation and Manipulation of Quantum Squeezed Vacuum via Polarization Self-Rotation in Rb Vapor , Travis Scott Horrom

Low Energy Tests of the Standard Model , Benjamin Carl Rislow

Magnetic Order and Dimensional Crossover in Optical Lattices with Repulsive Interaction , Jie Xu

Multi-meson systems from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics , Zhifeng Shi

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Dark matter in the heavens and at colliders: Models and constraints , Reinard Primulando

Measurement of Single and Double Spin Asymmetries in p(e, e' pi(+/-,0))X Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering , Sucheta Shrikant Jawalkar

NMR study of paramagnetic nano-checkerboard superlattices , Christopher andrew Maher

Parity-violating asymmetry in the nucleon to delta transition: A Study of Inelastic Electron Scattering in the G0 Experiment , Carissa Lee Capuano

Studies of polarized and unpolarized helium -3 in the presence of alkali vapor , Kelly Anita Kluttz

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During December or May, the students, who obtained the required credits of Master cycle and have carried out the internship in industry, have to choose a topic for the PdM by contacting the laboratories of IMX. It is also possible to carry out the PdM in a laboratory of an other Institute of EPFL, supervised by a responsible of SMX (prof, MER).

PdM   in an external university or academic Institute   (17 to 25 weeks)

During December or May, the students, who obtained the required credits of Master degree and have carried out the engineering internship, can make their PdM in an external academic institute. They have to find a responsible of SMX (prof, MER) willing to supervise the project and with whom they will discuss modalities and organization of the PdM.

Pdm in industry with engineering internship (PdMe) (25 weeks)

The students who obtained the required credits of Master degree can choose to carry out a PdMe which includes the engineering internship and the PdM. Before accepting an offer from a company, they have to find a responsible of SMX (prof, MER) who will agree to supervise the project according to the indications mentionned here .  The PdMe can also be carried out if the engineering internship has already been completed.

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The IPESE group is proposing an integrated concept of teaching where semester/master projects and lectures are considered as a whole entity.

The undergraduate studies for the mechanical engineering master combine lectures and projects. Thus it is recommended that the students realizing a project in our lab also register to the lectures given by Prof. Mar chal.

The lab is now located in the new campus of EPFL in Sion .

Students will be reimbursed for the travel to Sion.

You will find all necessary details together with contact information on the respective project page.

Students interested in doing a semester or master project in IPESE and who have not found a specific project of interest in the list of available projects can send a CV together with a motivation letter and a transcript of records (Bachelor, Master) to StudentProjectsIPESE . Your chances of finding an appropriate supervisor increase, when directly contacting a person from the IPESE lab. Therefore, visit the research pages to find your supervisor.

IPESE is also involved in the Minor in Energy: realize your master in 2 years with a special focus on energy and obtain the engineering master + a minor in Energy.

Students are welcomed at IPESE for semester projects, minor in energy projects and master projects. It is strongly recommended to select the projects with some continuity and consistency, selecting for example semester projects that concern different aspects of the same technology and that prepare the master thesis.

The subjects cover different aspects on the fields of research of the IPESE group as can also be seen by the completed projects.

Adsorbents for CO2 capture

Adsorption based o2 capture from atmosphere, comparative life cycle assessment of thermal energy storage material candidates with a focus on sim type sorbents, comparative techno-economic assessment of thermal energy storage material candidates with a focus on sim type sorbents, development of a digital twin for soec system using a dynamic approach, dynamic modelling of sofc stack, développement territorial chablais, efficiency beyond computing: exploring heat recovery in data centers for district heating and power production, energy integration of an aluminium casting house for reduced fuel consumption and combined heat and power production., heat transfer mechanisms and interfaces in a heat treatment furnace (pusher) in novelis aluminium rolling plant., ideal sofc - back to fundamentals to find areas for improvement, lca of electrolyzer and fuel cell technologies, life cycle assessment (lca) of renewable multi-generation systems using ammonia as an energy carrier, model building on electricity production via sofc by using formic acid, optimal strategy and arrangements for waste heat recovery from hot-rolled aluminium coils, optimization of co2 capture process using zeolite 13x in gproms, supporting the ecodesign of novel solid oxide eletrolyzer architectures for hydrogen production, techno-economic analysis of co2 capture using temperature swing adsorption with mof and silica adsorbents, techno-economic analysis (tea) of three energy carriers for the power-to-x-to-power (p2x2p) pathway, waste heat recovery from casting process at high temperature in the aluminium industry.

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12 May 2022 - we have had our first group meeting in person since 11 Mar 2020. It's been longer than we ever expected. Maybe I'll keep here for a bit the email to the group, from 13 Mar 2020. Let's keep fingers crossed.

you must have just seen the email from EPFL announcing the temporary closure of the school - I'll write tomorrow about practicalities (e.g. I'm thinking that people could take a monitor/keyboard/camera/mouse home, during the weekend - declaring this to me/Irene/Cornelia, to make working easier - workstations will have to stay at EPFL).

Right now I'm more thinking that all of you might feel quite a bit distressed by what is happening, especially if you have family or friends far away. So, I want to make you think that we are all also family and friends, and you can look out for each other, and support each other - in particular, I'm always available for a chat, and some support and consolation - just drop me a line.

Also, however odd this might feel, at the end it's really to keep everyone safe, and not overburden our medical system.

So, practicals will come tomorrow - for tonight, to offer glimpses of hope and optimism, a love poem by Nazim Hikmet when he was in prison, and it was 1945 - not a particularly good year, except for the Bordeaux vintages.

Also, straight from the writer's almanac, as oft-repeated: be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet. Our most beautiful days we haven't seen yet. And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven't said yet...

Nâzım Hikmet Ran, September 24th 1945

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• Changpeng Lin (Oct 2020 - onwards)
• Mario Caserta (Nov 2020 - onwards)
• Marija Stojkovic (Jan 2021 - onwards)
• Enrico Di Lucente (March 2021 - onwards)
• Alessandro Carbone (Oct 2021 - onwards)
• Andrea Fedrigucci (Dec 2021 - onwards)
• Tushar Thakur (July 2022 - onwards)
• Aleksandr Poliukhin (Aug 2022 - onwards)
• Guoyuan Liu (April 2023 - onwards)
• Luca Righetti (Sept 2023 - onwards)
• Matteo Quinzi (Jan 2024 - onwards)
• Binbin Liu (June 2024 onwards)

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Dr. Giovanna Lani (Nov 2020 - onwards)
• Dr. Louis Ponet (Apr 2021 - onwards)
• Dr. Mouyi Weng (Mar 2022 - onwards)
• Dr. Giannis Savva (Aug 2022 onwards)
• Dr. Giovanni Cistaro (Nov 2022 - onwards)
• Dr. Nicephore Bonnet (Jan 2023 - onwards)
• Dr. Tommaso Chiarotti (July 2023 - onwards)

Application Support Specialists and Software Engineers

• Dr. Valeria Granata (web engineer, Apr 2019 - onwards)
• Dr. Kristjan Eimre (web engineer, Apr 2022 - onwards)

Master Students

• Gabriel de Miranda Nascimento (Sept 2022 - Sept 2024)
• Zhiyi Wang (Sep 2022 to Dec 2023 + Feb 2024 to Aug 2024)
• Szymon Blazucki (Nov 2023 to Feb 2024)

Guests and visitors

• Dr. Michele Kotiuga (visiting scientist, Oct 2023 to Mar 2024)
• Gabriel Joalland (visiting Master student, March to August 2024)
• Serena Bragadini (INSPIRE student, March to August 2024)
• Valentina Sanella (INSPIRE student, April to September 2024)
• Laura Mismetti (INSPIRE Fellow, Sep 2023 to Feb 2024 at IBM Zurich)
• Tianshu Li (Bachelor project, Oct 2023 to Feb 2024)
• Anna Paulish (INSPIRE Fellow, Aug 2023 to Jan 2024)
• Dr. Davide Grassano (PostDoc, Jan 2020 - Jan 2024)
• Yongjoong Shin (semester's project student, Sep 2022 to Sep 2023)
• Simone Grillo (visiting PhD student, Sept to Dec 2023)
• Dr. François Liot (web engineer, Oct 2021 - Dec 2023)
• Dr. Lorenzo Monacelli Marie Curie fellow (Jan 2022 - Dec 2023)
• Dr. Sokseiha Muy (PostDoc, Sep 2019 - Dec 2023)
• Luca Binci (PhD student, Sep 2019 - Dec 2023)
• Chiku Parida (visiting PhD student from DTU, November 2023)
• Dr. Fatema Mohamed Saeed (visiting PostDoc, Sept to Oct 2023)
• Dr. Edward Linscott (PostDoc, Nov 2019 - Oct 2023)
• Dr. Iurii Timrov (postdoc & Senior scientist, Feb 2016 to Nov 2023)
• Dr. Martin Uhrin (PostDoc, Mar 2021 - Sept 2023)
• Dr. Michele Kotiuga (PostDoc, Sep 2019 - Sept 2023)
• Simone Merotto (Master project, Sep 2022 - Oct 2023)
• Nada Alghamdi (Master project, Feb 2022 - Oct 2023)
• Anna Paulish (Master project, Sep 2022 to June 2023)
• Gabriel Joalland (visiting Master student, April 3rd to July 30th 2023)
• Xander Ault (E3 fellow, May to August 2023)
• Arianna Cantarella (Valorisation Master, May 2023 to Aug 2023)
• Dr. Marnik Bercx (PostDoc, Apr 2020 - Aug 2023)
• Dr. Francisco Ramirez (PostDoc, Aug 2019 - Aug 2023)
• Dr. Christopher Sewell (PostDoc, Apr 2020 - July 2023)
• Tommaso Chiarotti (PhD student, Oct 2018 - June 2023)
• Alessandro D'Urso (Master student, Mar 2023 to June 2023)
• Dr. Dou Du (PostDoc, Oct 2019 - May 2023)
• Norma Rivano (PhD student, Aug 2018 - May 2023)
• Dr. Riccardo De Gennaro (PostDoc, Oct 2022 - May 2023)
• Giovanni Trezza (visiting PhD student, Nov 2022 to May 2023)
• Julian Geiger (visiting PhD student, Feb 1st to May 12th 2023)
• Laura Mismetti (Master student, Sep 2022 to Feb 2023)
• Swathilakshmi Swathilakshmi (Master project, Sep 2022 to Feb 2023)
• Liu Guoyuan (Master project, Sep 2022 to Feb 2023)
• Nataliya Paulish (INSPIRE potential, Sep 2022 to Mar 2023)
• Arianna Cantarella (INSPIRE potential, Oct 2022 to Mar 2023)
• Dr. Francesco Libbi (Postdoc Nov 2022 - March 2023)
• Francesco Libbi EPFL Innovators fellow (Apr 2018 - Oct 2022)
• Dr. Cristiano Malica (visiting PostDoc, Jan 25th to Feb 8th)
• Dr. Giovanni Pizzi (postdoc & Senior scientist, Jan 2012 to Jan 2023)
• Dr. Xing Wang (postdoc, Aug 2022 to Dec 2022)
• Dr. Jusong Yu (postdoc, Sep 2021 to Dec 2022)
• Dr. Flaviano José dos Santos (PostDoc, Aug 2020 to Oct 2022)
• Lorenzo Bastonero (visiting PhD student, Nov 2022 to Dec 2022)
• Emmanuele Cannavò (visiting PhD student, Mar to Nov 2022)
• Dr. Loris Ercole (postdoc, Jan 2019 - Oct 2022)
• Manuel Dillenz (visiting PhD student, Aug 2022 to Oct 2022)
• Mohammad Tohidivahdat , (PhD student Sep 2017 - Oct 2022, joint with Prof. Agrawal, EPFL)
• Riccardo De Gennaro (PhD student, Jan 2018 - Oct 2022)
• Dr. Simon Adorf (PostDoc,Oct 2019 - Sept 2022)
• Stéphane Nilsson (Master student, spring semester's project, Feb 2022 to May 2022)
• Nada Alghamdi (Master student, spring semester's project, Feb 2022 to May 2022)
• Yannick Schubert (Master student, fall semester's project, Sep 2021 to Jan 2022)
• Liu Guoyuan (Master student, fall semester's project, Sep 2021 to Jan 2022)
• Miki Bonacci (visiting PhD student, mid-Feb 2022 to mid-May 2022)
• Nataliya Paulish (Master student, Oct 2021 to Feb 2022)
• Gabriel de Miranda Nascimento (visiting Master student, Feb to Apr 2022)
• Matteo d'Alessio (visiting Master student, end of Jun - early Jul 2022)
• Dr. Samuel Poncé , Marie Curie Fellow (PostDoc, Nov 2019 - Oct 2021)
• Mr. Marco Borelli (web engineer, May 2017 to April 2022)
• Dr. Francesco Aquilante (PostDoc, Oct 2019 - April 2022)
• Dr. Leopold Talirz (PostDoc, Jun 2017 - Oct 2021)
• Dr. Yakutovich Aliaksandr (PostDoc, Nov 2017 - Oct 2021)
• Jacopo Rizzo (visiting Master student, Apr 2021 - Dec 2021)
• Dr. Elsa Passaro (web engineer, Sep 2017 - Dec 2021)
• Lorenzo Bastonero (visiting PhD student, mid-Sep to mid-Oct 2021)
• Eric Macke (visiting PhD student, mid-Sep to mid-Oct 2021)
• Giovanni Cistaro (visiting PhD student, mid-Sep to mid-Dec 2021)
• Lorenzo Varrassi (visiting PhD student, mid-Sep to mid-Dec 2021)
• Dr. Michele Simoncelli (PostDoc, Jun 2021 - Aug 2021)
• Dr. Casper Andersen (PostDoc, Oct 2018 - Jul 2021)
• Vijay Sudarshan (Visiting Master Student, May 2021 to Jul 2021)
• Konstantin Sopov (Spring Semester 2021)
• Elena Gazzarrini (INSPIRE Fellow, Jan 2021 - Jul 2021)
• Dr. Marco Vanzini (PostDoc, Jul 2018 - Jul 2021)
• Michele Simoncelli (PhD student, Oct 2016 - May 2021)
• Dr. Giuliana Materzanini (PostDoc, Feb 2017 - April 2021)
• Aman Singh (master student, Spring 2020 and Jun 2020 to Jan 2021)
• Dr. Sebastiaan Huber (PostDoc, Nov 2016 - Dec 2020)
• Enrico Di Lucente (visiting Master student, Apr 2020 - Dec 2020)
• Dr. Davide Campi , (PostDoc, Feb 2016 - Oct 2020)
• Virginie De Mestral (Master student, Feb 2020 - Aug 2020)
• Dr. Antimo Marrazzo (PostDoc, Dec 2019 - Aug 2020)
• Ms. Snehal Kumbhar (web engineer, Jul 2015 - Aug 2020)
• Dr. Leonid Kahle (PostDoc, Jan 2020 - May 2020)
• Austin Zadoks (Master student, July 2019 - Jan 2020)
• Dr. Daniele Tomerini (PostDoc, Jan 2019 - Jan 2020)
• Felix Bölle (Visting PhD student, Oct 2019 - Dec 2019)
• Antimo Marrazzo (PhD student, 2015 - Nov 2019)
• Leonid Kahle (PhD student, 2015 - Dec 2019)
• Oscar Arbelaez Echeverri (PhD student, Feb 2019 - Nov 2019)
• Dr. Thibault Sohier (PostDoc, Jan 2016 - Oct 2019)
• Matthieu Mottet (PhD student, Fall 2015 - Fall 2019, joint with Dr. Curioni, IBM Research Labs)
• Dr. Robert Baldock , EPFL Fellow (Oct 2016 - Sep 2019)
• Prof François Gygi, (invited professor, May 2019 - Aug 2019)
• Dr. Francesco Nattino (PostDoc, 2018 - Sep 2019)
• Gianluca Prandini (PhD student, Jan 2015 - Jul 2019)
• David Amblard (visiting master student, Apr 2019 - Jul 2019)
• Marcel Sadowski (exchange PhD student, Apr 2019 - Jun 2019)
• Dr. Nicola Colonna (PostDoc, Dec 2014 - May 2019)
• Dr. Conrad Johnston (PostDoc, May 2018 - May 2019)
• Dr. Nicolas Hörmann (PostDoc, Mar 2016 - Apr 2019)
• Dr. Spyros Zoupanos (application support specialist and software engineer, Jun 2015 - Apr 2019)
• Shi-Lin Wang (master project, Autum semester 2018)
• Pablo Piaggi (Fall 2015 - Jan 2019, joint with Prof. Parrinello, USI and ETHZ)
• Dr. Martin Uhrin (PostDoc Jan 2015 - Jan 2019)
• Simran Kumari (MARVEL Inspire Fellow, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, Dec 2017 - Dec 2018)
• Dr. Matteo Cococcioni (senior scientist, Oct 2013 - Oct 2018)
• Rico Häuselmann (application support specialist and software engineer, Dec 2016 - Aug 2018)
• Rong Zhang, (visiting student from Nanyang Technological University, Feb 2018 - Aug 2018)
• Albert Musaelian (visiting student, Jun 2018 - Aug 2018)
• Nicola Barchi (Master project, Spring semester 2018)
• Mahdi Hijazi (Master project, Spring semester 2018)
• Théo Jaffrelot-Inizan (Master project, Spring semester 2018)
• Prof. Scott Auerbach (visiting professor, Feb 2018 to June 2018)
• Dr. Victor Manuel Garcia Suarez (visiting researcher, May 2018 - June 2018)
• Dr. Nicolas Mounet (PostDoc Feb 2015- March 2018)
• Chiheb Ben Mahmoud (visiting student from CentraleSupélec Paris, May 2017 to Feb 2018)
• Kejia Cui, EPFL (from Sept 2017 - Jan 2018)
• Farzad Rezaeianaran, EPFL (from Apr 2017 to Dec 2017)
• Carsten Staacke (visiting Master student, Sep 2017 - Dec 2017)
• Dr. Oliviero Andreussi (PostDoc 2008-2012, 2015-2017, now assistant professor NTU)
• Dr. Aris Marcolongo (PostDoc 2015-2017, now IBM Zurich)
• Francesco Libbi, (visiting Master student, Apr 2017 - Nov 2017)
• Norma Rivano (MARVEL Inspire Fellow, Mar 2017 - Oct 2017)
• Dr. Marco Gibertini (PostDoc 2013-2017, now Ambizione Fellow at U. of Geneve)
• Dr. Fernando Gargiulo (PostDoc 2015-2017, now ENEL)
• Dr. James Moraes de Almeida (PostDoc 2015-2017, now U. of Sao Paulo)
• Dr. Ngoc Linh Nguyen (PostDoc 2012-2017, now U. of Chicago)
• Pierre Jean Francois Leroux (Master thesis student - Autumn 2016)
• Sébastien Pierre Bienvenue (Master thesis student - Autumn 2016)
• Przemyslaw Juda (Master thesis student - Autumn 2016)
• Thanh Phong Lê (Master thesis student - Autumn 2016)
• Mathieu Lempen (Master thesis student - Autumn 2016)
• Dr. Andrea Cepellotti (PhD student Nov 2011 - March 2016, PostDoc until Nov 2016, now Harvard University)
• Abel Carreras Conill (visiting PhD student, Sept-Oct 2016)
• Prof. Filippo de Angelis (visiting professor, Apr 2016 - May 2016)
• Marco Coco (visiting PhD student, Apr 2016 - Oct 2016)
• Dr. Riccardo Sabatini (PostDoc 2013-2014 and visitor 2014-2016, now at Human Longevity)
• Daniele Dragoni (PhD student, Oct 2011 - Apr 2016, PostDoc U. Milano Bicocca)
• Anand Chandrasekaran (PhD student, Jan 2012 - Feb 2016, PostDoc Georgia Tech)
• Daniel Marchand (visiting Master student, Jun 2015 - Dec 2015)
• Dr. Víctor Manuel García Suárez (visiting researcher, Sep 2015-Nov 2015)
• Dr. Nongnuch Artrith (visiting Schlumberger fellow, May 2015-Aug 2015)
• Augustin Bussy (Bachelor semester project, Spring 2015; Master semester project, Fall 2015; Master thesis, Spring 2016)
• Jocelyn Boullier (Master semester project, Fall 2015)
• Dr. Ivano Castelli (EPFL Fellow, Sep 2014 - Aug 2015, now assistant professor DTU)
• Vojislav Đukić (visiting Bachelor student, Jul 2015 - Sep 2015)
• Sri Krishna Vadlamani (visiting Bachelor student, IIT Mumbai, May 2015-Jul 2015)
• Alvaro Charlet (Master semester project, Spring 2015)
• Philippe Schwaller (Master semester project, Fall 2014; Master semester project, Spring 2015; Master thesis, Spring 2016))
• Andrius Merkys (visiting PhD student, Oct 2014-Oct 2015)
• Bruno Hadenque (Master semester project, Fall 2014)
• Dr. Giovanni Borghi (PostDoc, Jan 2012 - Jan 2015, now PostDoc at U. of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
• Dr. Emine Küçükbenli (PostDoc, Feb 2012 - Nov 2014, now PostDoc at SISSA, Trieste)
• Valentin Bersier (Master semester project, Spring 2014)
• Christopher Schmitt (Master semester project, Spring 2014)
• Dr. David Daniel O'Regan (PostDoc Oct 2011 - Dec 2013, now assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin)
• Dr. Giorgia Fugallo (visiting PostDoc summer 2013, now CNRS and Université de Nantes)
• Dr. Céline Dupont (visiting PostDoc Jan 2012 - Dec 2013, now CNRS and Université de Bourgogne)
• Léo Duchêne (Master semester project, Fall 2013)
• Leonid Kahle (Master semester project, Fall 2013; Master semester project; Spring 2014, Master thesis, Spring 2015)
• Alexander Urban (visiting student, Fall 2011)
• Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay (M.Sc. U. of Oxford, Sep 2011)

[2007 to 2011 to be updated]

• Dr. Michele Ceriotti, Assistant Professor, EPFL (short postdoc 2011)
• Dr. Cheol-Hwan Park, Associate Professor, Seoul National University (postdoc 2010-2012)
• Dr. Andrea Ferretti, Research Scientist (tenured), CNR and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (postdoc 2009-2011)
• Dr. Oliviero Andreussi, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas (postdoc 2008-2012, 2015-2017)
• Dr. Xiaofeng Qian, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M (postdoc, 2008-2011)
• Dr. Davide Ceresoli, Research Scientist (tenured), CNR and University of Milan (postdoc 2008-2011)
• Dr. Oswaldo Dieguez, Associate Professor, University of Tel Aviv (postdoc 2006-2007)
• Sejoong Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology (UST) Korea (PhD 2006-2011)
• Jivtesh Garg, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma (PhD 2006-2011)
• Yu-Tzu Elise Li, Assistant Professor, NTNU Taiwan (PhD 2006-2011)
• Heather Kulik, Assistant Professor, MIT (PhD 2004-2009)
• Dr. Nicola Bonini, Senior Lecturer (aka Assistant Professor), King’s College London (postdoc 2005-2011)
• Amelie Juhin
• Marco Fornari
• Matteo Salvetti
• Nicolas Poilvert
• Nicholas Singh-Miller
• Nicephore Bonnet
• Hatem Halal
• Dmitri Volja
• Samed Halilov
• Kathy Simons
• Dr. Timo Thonhauser (DMSE, visiting scientist: Aug 2006 - Jul 2007, research associate: Aug 2007 - Jul 2008), Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University
• Dr. Ismaila Dabo (DMSE, graduate student 2002-2007), Postdoctoral researcher, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, France).
• Dr. Brandon Wood (DMSE, graduate student 2001-2007), NSF Postdoctoral researcher, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (Bangalore, India).
• Dr. Arash Mostofi (DMSE, PostDoc Oct 2005 - Aug 2007), Lecturer (i.e. Assistant Professor), Department of Physics, and Department of Materials, Imperial College (London, UK).
• Dr. Young-Su Lee (DMSE, graduate student 2001-2006, PostDoc Aug 2006 - Aug 2007), Senior Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).
• Dr. Boris Kozinsky (Physics, graduate student), Research Scientist, Bosch GMBH (Cambridge, MA).
• Dr. Francesca Baletto (DMSE, PostDoc May 2006 - Jul 2007), Lecturer (i.e. Assistant Professor), Department of Physics, King's College (London, UK).
• Chen Li (Physics, undergraduate UROP Spring 2007), Graduate student, Physics Department, Cornell University.
• Dr. Patrick Sit (Physics, graduate student 2002-2006), Postdoctoral researcher with Prof M. Klein, University of Pennsylvania.
• Michael Tambe (DMSE, graduate student 2006), Graduate student, Prof. Silvija Gradecak, DMSE.
• Dr. Manu Sharma (DMSE, short-term postdoc Sep 2005 - Dec 2005), Postdoctoral researcher with Prof. G. Galli, University of California Davis.
• Krzystof Niemkiewicz (high school RSI Scholar, Summer 2006).
• Janet Ryu (DMSE, undergraduate UROP, Sep 2005 - May 2006).
• Adam Chao (Physics, undergraduate UROP, Sep 2005 - Jan 2006).
• Dr. Paolo Umari. (DMSE, PostDoc Jan 2004 - Dec 2005), Research scientist, Democritos National Simulation Center, and Elettra synchrotron (Trieste, Italy).
• Dr. Damián Scherlis (DMSE, PostDoc May 2002 - Sep 2005), Research scientist, CONICET and Departamento de Quimica Inorganica, University of Buenos Aires.
• Giacomo Ferrari (Dublin Jerome High School, Dublin OH, Summer 2005).
• Dr. Cody Friesen (DMSE, graduate student). Assistant professor, Arizona State University.
• Dr. Mayeul d'Avezac (Physics, Paris VI, visiting graduate student, Jan 2004 - Sep 2004), Postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Alex Zunger (NREL).
• Caleb Ng (high school RSI Scholar, Libertyville High School, Summer 2004),cUndergraduate student, Caltech
• Mikael Rechtsman (Physics, undergraduate, May 2002 - May 2003), Graduate student with Prof. Sal Torquato and Prof. Frank Stillinger (Physics, Princeton University).
• Ann Chi (high school RSI Scholar, Terre Haute South Vigo High School, Summer 2003), Undergraduate student, Harvard University.
• Luke Shulenburger (Physics, undergraduate, Spring 2002), Graduate student with Prof. Richard Martin (Physics, UIUC).

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Saul Estandia, Postdoc (2023) Robin Girod, PhD (2023) Michele Bozzetti, PhD (2023) Tzu-Hsien Shen, PhD (2022) | Currently Senior Process Engineer at imec, Belgium Reinis Ignatans, PhD (2022) | Currently Leading Researcher at Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia Jan Vavra, PhD (2022) | Currently Field Engineer at Dectris, Switzerland Martina Lihter, Postdoc (2021) | Scientist at Institut za fisiku, Croatia Jing Hou, PhD (2021) | Currently Scientist at Philip Morris International, Switzerland My Pham, Master thesis (2020) | Currently PhD candidate at LMER, EPFL Junjie Li, Postdoc (2019) Nikolaos Nianias, Postdoc (2018) | Currently Technology Specialist and Materials Engineer at Embion Technologies, Switzerland Kavita Pandey, Postdoc (2017) | Currently Scientist at Center of Nano and Soft Matter Sciences, India