Research Interests & brief CV

Mesoscopic physics, Quantum thermodynamics, Quantum transport, Quantum information, Quantum dynamics

I am a theoretical physicist, expert in quantum thermodynamics and quantum transport in nanoscale devices. My research focuses on understanding how quantum coherent effects and quantum correlations can be exploited in out-of-equilibirum quantum systems towards energy harvesting, heat management and quantum information processing. Research interests span non-Hermitian physics in open quantum systems, quantum metrology and quantum information processing in mesoscopic devices.

 

Brief CV:

2008 - 2012 : PhD thesis, supervisor Markus Büttiker, University of Geneva

2012 - 2014 : Postdoctoral fellow, Freie Universität Berlin, working with Piet Brouwer and Jens Eisert

2014 - 2015 : Postodctoral fellow, CEA Grenoble, working with Xavier Waintal and Alexia Auffèves

2016 - 2018 : Independent postodctoral fellowship, Marie-Heim Vögtlin grant, Swiss national Science Foundation, group of Nicolas Brunner, Univ. of Geneva

2018 - 2023 : Swiss National Science Foundation, PRIMA starting grant, Assistant professor, University of Geneva

2024 - 2026 : MER & scientific collaborator, Department of Applied Physics, University of Geneva

Publications

All my publications are available freely on the arXiv.

Open positions

• Applications for the postdoctoral position are under review. I will try to answer all of you. Thank you for your interest and applications!

• Master students willing to conduct their master thesis in the group should spontaneously contact me.

Group members 

• From 01.03.2026: PhD student Maxime Jeanfavre
• Jeel Kothadiya, master student, supported by NCCR Spin Inspire fellowship
• Timothée Pottié, master internship, EPFL

Past members

• Dr. Gianmichele Blasi 2021 - 2025 (now postdoc with R. Lopez, IFISC, Baleares, Spain)
• Shihang Pan 2024 - 2025, Master thesis
• Jeanne Bourgeois, 2024 -2025, master student (now PhD student with V. Savona, EPFL)
• Thomas Decultot, Spring 2023, master student (now PhD ENS Paris - Alice & Bob)
• Dr. Shishir Khandelwal, 2019-2023 (now postdoc with A. Tavakoli, Lund University)
• Michael Ronan, Master internship (Germany), March -July 2021
• Daniel Morvan, Master internship (Rennes), April - July 2021
• Guillaume Brouillon, Master internship (ENS Paris), March - June 2020
• Nicolas Palazzo, Master intership (EPFL), Summer project, 2019
• Thomas Kroiss, Master thesis (Unige), September 2018 - June 2019

Activities

Theory seminars (Mondays) 

If you have any interest in our research topics, please feel free to contact me or Nicolas Brunner.

Past seminars: 2020 - 2021, covid times

• 25/05/2021: Manas Kalkarni (ICTS Bengalore)
• 18/05/2021: Anja Metelmann (FU Berlin)
• 11/05/2021: Jacqueline Bloch (C2N, Université Paris-Sud)
• 04/05/2021: Florian Marquardt (MPI Erlangen)
• 27/04/2021: Giuseppe Carleo (EPFL)
• 13/04/2021: Barbara Kraus (Uni. Innsbruck)
• 23/03/2021: Aashish Clerk (Uni. Chicago)
• 09/03/2021: Cecilia Cormick (Uni. Cordobo, Argentina)
• 02/03/2021: Adolfo del Campo (Uni. Luxemburg)
• 23/02/2021: Henrik Wilming (ETH)
• 08/12/2020: John Goold (Trinity College Dublin)
• 01/12/2020: Gwendal Fève (LPA, ENS Paris), also featured as a QSIT seminar
• 24/11/2020: Dvira Segal (U. Toronto)
• 16/11/2020: Lorenzo Piroli (MPQ Garching)
• 10/11/2020: Benjamin Huard (ENS Lyon), also featured as a QSIT seminar
• 03/11/2020: Christoph Wächtler (TU Berlin)
• 13/10/2020: Cecilia Chiaracane (Trinity College Dublin)
• 06/10/2020: Fabrizio Minganti (Riken Japan)
• 22/09/2020: Udo Seifert (Uni Stuttgart), also featured as QSIT seminar

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2019-2020

• Philipp Strasberg (UAB, Barcelona)
• Alain Joye (U. Grenoble-Alpes)
• Oded Zilberberg (ETH Zürich)
• Francesco Giazotto (CNR Pisa), also as Physics Colloquim