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

• 3-years postoctoral fellow position, starting date 01.05.2026 to 01.10.2026. Possible research directions: non-Hermitian physics in open quantum systems, uncertainty relations and quantum metrology in mesoscopic systems, quantum information processing. To be discussed with the candidate.

We are looking for excellent, strongly motivated collaborators.

Please send me your CV, a publication list and 2 names for providing a letter of reference (direct supervisors or close colleagues).

We support inclusion and diversity, do not hesitate to apply!

• 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