Past Members

Ph.D. students

Amin SHOAIE 2012 – 2016 currently R&D Engineer at Hitachi Energy
Adrien BILLAT 2013 – 2017 currently Product Manager at SOITEC
Svyatoslav KHARITONOV 2013 – 2017 then postdoc at PHOSL and currently Optical Design Engineer at Advanced Osteotomy Tools AG
  Winner of the EPFL Doctoral Program in Photonics 8% distinction award for his thesis
  Winner of the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the 2016 Advanced Solid State Laser Conference
Sida XING 2015 – 2019 currently Assistant Professor at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
Jianqi HU 2016 – 2020 then postdoc at PHOSL and currently Postdoctoral researcher at LPQM EPFL
Ivan CARDEA 2016 – 2020 currently System Engineer at Semtech
Eirini TAGKOUDI 2017 – 2021 currently Senior Fellow at CERN
  Best Poster Award at EPFL Photonics Day 2018
Arman AYAN 2019 – 2023
Boris ZABELICH 2019 – 2024 currently PIC engineer at Ligentec SA

Postdocs

Dr. Armand VEDADI 2011 – 2015 currently Senior Optical Systems Engineer at PsiQuantum
Dr. Steevy CORDETTE 2013 – 2016 currently Director of Advanced Photonics Research at the Technology Innovation Institute (Abu Dhabi)
Dr. Thibault NORTH 2015 – 2016 currently Senior Firmware Engineer at Luna Innovations
Dr. Davide GRASSANI 2015 – 2019 currently Project Manager at CSEM
Dr. Simon FABBRI  2016 – 2018 currently Optical System Engineer at Viasat
Dr. Can YAO 2016 – 2018 currently Application Engineer at Ligentech SA
Dr. Florent MAZEAS 2019 – 2021 currently Lead Quantitative Analyst at Flowbank
Dr. Ezgi SAHIN 2020 – 2021 currently Researcher at ASML
Dr. Edgars NITISS 2018 – 2022 currently R&D Engineer at Sensirion
Dr. Gayathri BHARATHAN 2021 – 2023 currently Assistant ProfessorIndian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Dr. Marco CLEMENTI
2021 – 2024 currently Researcher at Università di Pavia

 

Interns, semester and master students

Jinxi Hu (2023) Axel Poidevin (2023) Sofia Glazyrina (2023) Hector Mussilon (2021)
Potamitis Nearchos (2020) Kilian Poirier (2020) Deniz Aydin (2014 – 2016) Fatemeh Alishahi (2012, 2013)
Yue-Pei Tseng (2014) Brian Verpecht (2016) Thomas Fussinger (2015) Joaquim Vincenti (2015)
Ludovic Zulliger (2014) Samuel Y. Benketaf (2014) Erwan Lucas (2013)