I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. (Richard P. Feynman, 1967).
LCMD is a computational/theoretical laboratory, focusing on electronic structure theory in the area of method development and conceptual work applied to the field of homogeneous catalysis and organic molecular materials. Our research heavily exploits the interplay between quantum chemistry, machine learning techniques (e.g., Q-stack) and data-driven pipelines (e.g., NaviCat platform) for molecules and materials discovery.
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News
| December 2024 | Congratulations to Dr. Terry Blaskovits for winning the EDCH(ISIC) Doctoral Thesis Award! And congratulations to Jacques Mandriota multiple prizes winner for his bachelor degree in Chemistry (EPFL). Thank you for making LCMD shines. |
| August/September 2024 | LCMD will be hosting three new undergraduate students. Welcome to Yoann Humbert, Jacques Mandriota and Alexandre Mayer and have fun with your project. Congratulations to Puck for defending her PhD work on physics-based representations for chemical reaction properties. |
| July 2024 | Happy to host Dr. Mohammed Azzouzi, who is joining from Imperial College London with a SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations for the fellowship and welcome to LCMD. |
| April 2024 | Congratulation to Sara for defending her candidacy exam. |
| March 2024 | Dr. Ksenia Briling defended her PhD thesis and she did great! Thank you and congratulations Ksenia! |
| February 2024 | Welcome back to your new PhD student, Thanapat Worakul. |
| January 2024 | Congratulation to Osvaldo for defending his candidacy exam. |
| December 2023 | We are pleased to announce that after brilliantly defending his PhD thesis in October, Dr. Simone Gallarati has been awarded a SNSF post-doc fellowship to conduct research in the Sigman (UofUtah) and Doyle (UCLA) laboratories. Looking forward to read about your next discovery Simone! |
| November/December 2023 | Candidacy exams successfully defended by Liam and Yannick. Congratulations! |
| February 2023 | With the start of the semester LCMD is happy to welcome: Thanapat Worakul (master student from Mahidol University, Thailand), Luca Schaufelberger (master student from ETHZ), Matthew Johnson (visiting PhD student from University of Alberta, Canada), Theo Neukomm (master student from EPFL). |
| January 2023 | Two candidacy exams successfully defended by Juliette and Yuri. Congratulations! |
| December 2022 | LCMD welcomes Osvaldo Hernandez as a new PhD student. Osvaldo did his bachelor studies in Mexico and obtained his master degree from the University of Madrid. |
| October 2022 | Big congratulations to Yannick Alonso for receiving his Master degree from EPFL and welcome back to LCMD, this time as a PhD student! We are also happy to welcome Matthieu Haeberle for a PhD in co-direction with Fritz Eisenbrand (EPFL mathematics). |
| September 2022 | Welcome to our semester students, Malte Franke and Lucien Brey. |
| September 2022 | Clemence has officially started her sabbatical semester at Caltech. Sorry LCMD for the late group meetings! |
| September 2022 | Liam Marsh, from ENS Lyon, is coming back to LCMD to start his PhD! Welcome back Liam. |
| July 2022 | Congratulations to Simone Gallarati for his poster award at WATOC 2022 (Vancouver). Read his interview here and stay tuned to learn more about his work on OSCAR. |
| June 2022 | Welcome to our new visiting student Alexander Makaveev coming from Oxford with the Excellence Research Internship Program. Congratulations to Dr. Veronika Juraskova for being award a SNSF postdoc.mobility fellowship to join the group pf Prof. Fernanda Duarte in Oxford. |
| Spring 2022 | This spring, LCMD had to let some of its oldest members move to their next career step. We will miss you: Dr. Maria Fumanal, Dr. Sergi Vela, Dr. Raimon Fabregat and Dr. Alberto Fabrizio. This time with you was fantastic! |
| April 2022 | Some delayed news on awards: Clemence Corminboeuf was awarded the Per-Olov Löwdin lecture 2022, the Almlöf–Gropen lecture 2022 and the Heilbronner-Hückel lecture 2021. Kudos to all the LCMD members for their involvements. |
| March 2022 | Congratulations to Terry for being an EPFL finalist of MT180! We loved his performance! |
| January 2022 | Welcome to our new PhD student, Juliette Schleicher, who did her undergraduate studies at the University of Heidelberg. |
| December 2021 | LCMD welcomes Yuri Cho, who is starting her PhD with us. Yuri did her master thesis in Basel with Prof. Anatole von Lilienfeld for which she received a MARVEL Inspire fellowship. |
| November 2021 | Big congratulations to Veronika and Raimon, who passed their PhD oral exam the same week. |
| October 2021 | Welcome to, Alexandre Schoepfer, a PhD student joint with the Waser lab. Congratulations to Puck for passing her candidacy exam! Congratulations to Veronika Juraskova who received the SCGC teaching award. |
| September 2021 | Happy to host three new semester master students. Patricia Brandl (EPFL), Thanapat Worakul (Thailand) and Yannick Alonso (EPFL). |
| June 2021 | Very happy to welcome Hanna Cramer, a visiting PhD student from MPI CEC under the supervision of Walter Leitner. |
| May 2021 | We are happy to welcome, Yanan, a visiting doctoral student from Peking University. |
| February 2021 | LCMD welcomes a new master student, Liam Marsh from ENS Lyon. Liam will perform his master thesis with us working at the quantum chemistry/machine learning interface. |
| January 2021 | Clemence Corminboeuf is a new ACS associate editor for the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. |
| January 2021 | LCMD welcomes, Bruna Sanchez Pladevall, a visiting PhD student from Maseras group at ICIQ. |
| October 2020 | Congratulations to Ksenia and Simone for successfully passing their candidacy exam! Exciting science up front! |
| October 2020 | LCMD is happy to finally welcome the first post-covid members: Pit Steinbach, a master student from Aachen, Puck Van Gerwen, a PhD student from UniBasel, and two new postdocs from LCT Paris, Dr. Ruben Laplaza (PhD with Drs Julia Contreras-Garcia and Victor Polo) and Dr. Frederic Celerse (PhD with Jean-Philip Piquemal). |
| October 2020 | Saying good bye to Dr. Kun-Han Lin, starting his next career step as a SNF fellow with Dr. Denis Andrienko at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. |
| September 2020 | It is official after their PhD public defense: LCMD congratulates two new doctors, Dr. Alberto Fabrizio and Dr. Kun-Han Lin! |
| August 2020 | NCCR catalysis is officially launched! |
| July 2020 | Great PhD oral exam, bravo Kun. |
| June 2020 | Our master students David Girardier and Miyeon Chang students survived to the covid semester and terminated their project at LCMD. A lot of time spent on zoom but great results! Congratulations for their big achievement. |
| May 2020 | Most of us are back on campus (respecting the covid measures). |
| March 2020 | Congratulation to Alberto, who brilliantly passed his PhD oral exam on March 16. On the same day, LCMD is locked down because of Covid-19. |
| February 2020 | Sinjini officially terminated her master thesis at LCMD and is now ready to successfully defend it at her home university. |
| Februrary 2020 | LCMD welcomes Dr. Maria Fumanal, Dr. Marc Garner and Dune Andre. Maria is starting her MSCA actions project, D3AiSF. Marc was awarded an independent research fund from Denmark and Dune was awarded a MARVEL INSPIRE fellowship for a master project. |
| January 2020 | Farewell to Dr. Benjamin Meyer who is starting a new position at Philip Morris and to Alan Scheidegger, who has finished his semester project. Good luck to both! |
| October 2019 | Clemence Corminboeuf will receive the Jaubert Prize 2020 from the university of Geneva. |