Steve Ndengué
Steve Ndengué is a Senior Lecturer in the Condensed Matter Physics section of the East African Institute for Fundamental Research, a UNESCO category 2 institute ICTP partner. He did his undergraduate studies and Master’s in Cameroon at the University of Buea and Douala. He then went for a PhD of Condensed Matter and Radiation at the University of Grenoble in France.
Following his PhD, he held a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer position at the University of Douala. Prior to joining the faculty staff at ICTP-EAIFR, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Richard Dawes at Missouri S&T. Steve Ndengué research interests are in molecular quantum dynamics with a particular interest in applications in atmospheric chemistry, astrophysics, combustion, catalysis, but also method development.
Nicola Marzari
Nicola Marzari holds the Chair of Theory and Simulation of Materials at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he is also the director of the MARVEL National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials.
Previous tenured appointment include the Toyota Chair for Materials Processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the first Statutory (University) Chair of Materials Modelling at the University of Oxford, where he was the director of the Materials Modelling Laboratory.
Nicola Marzari has a degree in Physics from the University of Trieste and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge.