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The LFIM, April 2024

Head of laboratory

wendy Professor Wendy L. Queen

 

Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
EPFL Valais Wallis
Education and Training:
B.S. in Chemistry and Minor in Mathematics (2003), Lander University (USA)
Ph.D in Chemistry (2009),  Clemson University (USA)
Postdoctoral Research (2013), National Institute of Standards and Tehcnology, Center for Neutron Research (USA)
 
   

 

Administrative staff

Laure Dayer

 

Email: [email protected]

   

 

Postdoctoral researcher

   

 

Dr. Himan Dev Singh

 

Education:
Ph.D. in Chemistry, IISER Pune (India)
M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Jammu (India)
 
   

 

Dr. Yongjie Xu

 

Education:
Ph.D. in Chemistry (2022), University of Liverpool (UK)
M.S. and B.S. in Polymer Chemistry and Engineering, Sichuan University (China)
 
   

 

Dr. Nazanin Taheri 

 

Education:
M.S. and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Isfahan University of Technology (Iran)
B.S. in Applied Chemistry, Isfahan University of Technology (Iran)
 
   

PhD students

   
Olivier Smith

 

Education:
M.S. in Material Science and Chemistry (2021), ENS de Lyon (France)
B.S. in Material Science and Chemistry (2019), ENS de Lyon (France)
 
   
Pratap Narayan Soni

 

Education:
M.S. in Chemical Sciences (2023), IISER Kolkata (India)
B.S. in Chemical Sciences (2021), IISER Kolkata (India)
 
   

Matthieu Meoli 

 

Education:
M.S. in Molecular and Biological Chemistry (2023), EPFL (Switzerland)
B.S. in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (2021), EPFL (Switzerland)
 
   

Pattaraphon Rodlamul 

 

Education:
M.S. in Science and Technology (2023), University of Bologna (Italy)
M.S. in Engineering (2018), Osaka University (Japan)
B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry (2016), Chiang Mai University (Thailand)
   

Anne Belin 

 

Education:
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (2022), INSA Lyon (France)
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (2020), INSA Lyon (France)
 
   

Sanjay Venkatachalam

 

Education:
M.S. in Molecular and Biological Chemistry (2022), EPFL (Switzerland)
B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering (2019), Vellore Institute of Technology (India)
 
   

Timo Felder 

 

Education:
M.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences (2019), University of Bern (Switzerland)
B.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences (2017), University of Bern (Switzerland)
 
   

Jocelyn Roth

 

Education:
M.S. in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (2018), EPFL (Switzerland)
B.S. in Chemical Engineering (2016), EPFL (Switzerland)
 
   
Till Schertenleib 

 

Education:
M.S. in Molecular and Biological Chemistry (2020), EPFL (Switzerland)
B.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences (2017), Universität Bern (Switzerland)
 
   

 

Master students

   
Florian Jean L de Wilde d’Estmael

 

Education:

B.S. in Chemistry
 
 
   

Visiting students and researchers

   
Samir El Hankari

 

Education:

Visiting Professor, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Morocco)
 
 
   
Moumen El Mehdi

 

Education:
PhD student, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Morocco)
M.S. in Production and Valorisation of Natural Substances and Polymers, Cadi Ayyad University (Morocco)
 
   
   

Alumni

Year

Name, position in LFIM

2016 Washington S. Reeder, Visiting Bachelor student, UC Berkeley
2016 Daniel Doeller, Visiting Bachelor student, Technical University of Munich
2016 Dr. Pierre Dapsens, Postdoctoral researcher
2017 Sandrine Chuard, EPFL Master student
2017 Abbas Jamali, Visiting PhD student
2018 Matthieu Porchet, EPFL Master student
2018 Dr. Safak Bulut, Postdoctoral researcher (current Postdoc at Stockholm University)
2019 Hassan Abedini, Visiting PhD student
2019 Boris Nedyalkov, Visiting Master student
2019 Zhaoyang Sun, Visiting Bachelor student
2019 Prof. Li Peng, Postdoctoral researcher (current Associate Professor at Xiamen University)
2019 Samuel Van Gele, EPFL Master student
2019 Guanchu Lu, Visiting Master student, University of Edinburgh
2019 Martin Watt Coull, Visiting Master student, University of Edinburgh
2020 Dr. Daniel Sun, PhD student
2020 Vilasini Mahesh, EPFL Master student (currently working at Lonza)
2020 Alexandre Hueber, EPFL Master student
2021 Prof. Shuliang Yang, Postdoctoral researcher (current Associate Professor at Xiamen University)
2021 Dr. Bhawana Thakur, Postdoctoral researcher (current Postdoc at Roche)
2021 Adriana Neves, EPFL Master student
2021 Carolina Plaice, EPFL Master student
2021 Josephine Meibom, EPFL Master student (current PhD student at EPFL-LSCI)
2021 Sophia Pache, Visiting bachelor student, University of South Florida
2021 Carole Doncoeur, Visiting Master student, PSL Research University
2021 Dalia Allouss, Visiting PhD student
2021 Dr. Mehrdad Asgari, PhD student (current Postdoc at Cambridge University)  
2021 Chloe Vandelois, Visiting Master student, UC Louvain
2022 Dr. Ilia Kochetygov, PhD student (current Postdoc at Paul Scherrer Institute)
2022 Dr. Vikram Karve, PhD student (current Postdoc at HES-SO Valais)  
2022 Matthieu Meoli, EPFL Master student
2022 Doriane Meyer, EPFL Master student
2022 Soeun Kim, EPFL Master student
2022 Jariyaporn Sangkaworn, Visiting PhD student, Mahidol University
2022 Antoine Brunel, Visiting masters student, ENS Lyon
2022 Dr. Song Gao, Postdoctoral researcher
2022 Ibrahim Sultan, Visiting student
2022 Valérie Held, EPFL Master student
2023 Dr. Olga Trukhina, Postdoctoral researcher
2023 Armande Lardans, EPFL bachelor student
2023 Dr. Anita Justin, Postdoctoral researcher
2023 Olivier Smith, Visiting Master student, ENS Lyon
2023 Rong Wu, Visiting bachelor student, Wellesley College, Boston
2023 Wei Shi, Visiting PhD student, Northeastern University, China
2023 Clara Lopez, Visiting PhD student, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
2023 Léo Digonzelli, EPFL bachelor student
2023 Alina Jaison George, EPFL Master student
2024 Dr. Yudong Xue, Postdoctoral researcher
2024 Dr. Jordi Espin Marti, Postdoctoral researcher
2024 Mara Blöchlinger, EPFL master student 
2024 Dr. Pengkun Zhao, Postdoctoral researcher