Josep Esteban Montes joined our lab in February as a visiting Bachelor’s student for his thesis project. He did a fantastic job and has been wonderful company for all of us.
Wishing you all the best for your future!
29th April 2026
Goodbye, Madhubanti!
Your kindness and sweetness brought so much to our group. You haveve left a truly unforgettable mark on all of us.
Wishing you all the very best for your new adventure in Kolkata. You will be deeply missed!
1st February 2026
Good luck, Vlada, with starting your group in Prague!
More than anything, you have been a dear friend and an incredible office mate to all of us. We will truly miss you! Not just your brilliance, but your kindness, generosity, and the warmth you bring every day.
Your future team is incredibly lucky to have you. We can’t wait to see you shine in this new chapter!
1st January 2026
Welcome Alice Piantavigna to our group as a shared PhD candidate with the LPI group led by Prof. Michael Grätzel!
Alice first joined us February last year as an Erasmus student for her Master’s thesis and did such an outstanding job that both theorists and experimentalists wanted to keep her!
Wishing you the best of luck on your journey with our beloved perovskite solar cells
1st September 2025
Welcome Amina Menhour to our group as a PhD candidate!
Amina is joining our bio subgroup. Wishing her the best for this new adventure.
2nd June 2025
Welcome Ettore Bartalucci to our group as a PostDoc!
A brave transition from experiments to simulations and a fantastic addition as an NMR expert
1st April 2025
Welcome August Tetenoire to our group as a PostDoc!
Bringing expertise in machine learning potentials, August is set to push our research to new frontiers. Let’s make the atoms dance!
17th March 2025
Welcome Evan Vasey to our group as a PhD candidate!
Evan will focus on modeling charge transport in perovskite solar cell devices, a fascinating and impactful challenge.
Wishing you great success on this journey!
3rd March 2025
Welcome Thibault Kläy to our group as a PhD candidate!
Our software development subgroup has gained fresh energy and valuable expertise
3rd February 2025
Welcome back Swarnendu Bhattacharyya to our group as a PostDoc!
We are happy to have you with us again and look forward to diving deeper into the fascinating world of excited states
1st November 2024
Welcome Madhubanti Mukherjee to our group as a PostDoc!
Madhubanti will work on molecular electronic and perovskite solar cells
1st October 2024 Qihao and Salomé will do their PhDs in the lab!
They were so happy here that they decided to spend more time with us! Good luck!
1st – 3rd October 2024 Happy birthday Ursula!
On the occasion of her 60th birthday, we celebrated Ursula’s contributions to the computational chemistry and our lives at a conference supported by CECAM. It was a great opportunity for former and current group members to meet each other, get to know Ursula’s mentors and collaborators and foremost, to salute all her remarkable achievements in science and her kindness to all of us.
Thank you Paolo, Michele, Alessandra, Ute, and Stefano for organizing this incredible event!
5th September 2024 We did it again (or Andrea did)!
The poster, masterfully crafted by Andrea Levy, won the first prize in the CompChem section of the annual SCS Fall Meeting. Congrats!
1st August 2024 Welcome Samaneh Davoudi!
Samaneh joined our lab as PostDoc in the bio subsection of the group.
Looking forward for your achievements!
1st May 2024 Welcome Andrea Vezzosi!
Andrea joined our lab as PostDoc after graduating ad PhD from the university of Modena!
He will work on perovskites and machine learned force fields.
2nd February 2024 Mathias is done with his PhD!
Don’t party too hard, Mathias Dankl! But if you do, at least you’ll be safe, being that you are a certified pyrotechnician.
11th December 2023 Welcome Francesco!
Up to June 2024 Francesco Biasoni will work on his master thesis in our lab. Francesco is a visiting student from Politecnico di Milano.
Congrats to Sophie and Ursula for their outstanding work.
1st September 2023 Hi Salomé!
For this semester, Salomé Marie Alizé Guilbert will work on her project in our lab.
25th August 2023 Sophie triumphs at SCS Fall Meeting!
The poster of Sophie Johnson dazzled the jury in the CompChem section who awarded her the first prize. It has now become a permanent exhibit in our fabled poster collection.
25th July 2023 Congrats to Justin & François!
It has been a bountiful summer this year with Justin Villard and François Mouvet finishing their PhDs.
6th February 2023 Hi Nicolas!
For this semester, Nicolas Tavernier will work on his project in our lab.
3rd January 2023 Welcome Vlada!
We kicked off the new year with a new member Vladislav Slama, who joined LCBC as a postdoc.
30th November 2022 Well done, Dr. Guido!
Guido Frisari successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
23rd September 2022 Goodbye Irea!
We miss you already and wish you all the best in your future.
12th September 2022 Happy 20th birthday LCBC!
This September, we thoroughly celebrated lab’s 20th birthday and as a present, we gave it this flashy new website. Enjoy!
1st September 2022 Welcome Oliver!
Oliver Toth has started his Master’s project at LCBC.
1st November 2019 LCBC lab welcomes its new members: Viacheslav Bolnykh & Simon Dürr
16th July 2019 Ariadni Boziki won the poster prize (sponsored by American Chemical Society) during the ‘ISCTP 2019: 10th Triennial Congress of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics’, Tromso / Norway 11-17 July 2019
7th June 2019 Paramvir Ahlawat won the poster prize (sponsored by Advanced Theory and Simulations Wiley-VCH) during the ‘Mainz Materials Simulation Days 2019’, Mainz / Germany 5-7 June 2019
7th January 2019 LCBC lab welcomes its new member: Simran Kumari
1st June 2018 Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi won IOP award during the ‘HOPV18 – International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics’, Alicante / Spain 28 – 31 May 2018
