The LFIM, November 2025
Head of laboratory
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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)
Email: [email protected]
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Administrative staff
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Laure Dayer
Email: [email protected] |
Postdoctoral researcher
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Dr. Himan Dev Singh
Education:
Ph.D. in Chemistry, IISER Pune (India)
M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Jammu (India)
Email: [email protected] |
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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)
Email: [email protected] |
PhD students
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Christopher William Gardner
Education:
B.Sc. in Chemistry (2025), University of California at Berkeley (USA)
B.A. in Economics (2016), University of California at Berkeley (USA)
Email: [email protected] |
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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)
Email: [email protected] |
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Pratap Narayan Soni
Education:
M.S. in Chemical Sciences (2023), IISER Kolkata (India)
B.S. in Chemical Sciences (2021), IISER Kolkata (India)
Email: [email protected] |
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Matthieu Meoli Education:
M.S. in Molecular and Biological Chemistry (2023), EPFL (Switzerland)
B.S. in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (2021), EPFL (Switzerland)
Email: [email protected] |
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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)
Email: [email protected] |
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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)
Email: [email protected] |
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Sanjay Venkatachalam Education:
M.S. in Molecular and Biological Chemistry (2022), EPFL (Switzerland)
B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering (2019), Vellore Institute of Technology (India)
Email: [email protected] |
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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)
Email: [email protected] |
Master students
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Lou-Anne Juliette Ducruet Education:
B.S. in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (2021), EPFL (Switzerland)
Email: [email protected] |
Visiting students and researchers
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Samir El Hankari
Education: |
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Abdessamad El Amri |
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Fatemeh Ghorbannia Delavar Education:
M.S. in Chemistry (on going), Friedrich-Alexander Universität (Germany)
B.S. in Chemistry (2023), Isfahan University of Technology (Iran, Isfahan)
Email: [email protected] |
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 |
| 2025 | Florian Jean L de Wilde d’Estmael, EPFL master student |
| 2025 | Dr. Jocelyn Roth, PhD student |
| 2025 | Lou-Anne Juliette Ducruet, EPFL master student |
| 2025 | Dr. Yongjie Xu, Postdoctoral research |
| 2025 | Lara Carvalho, Visiting bachelor student, Universidade Católica do Porto Portugal |
| 2025 | Diane Seohyun Hong, Exchange bachelor student, KAIST, South Korea |
| 2025 | Dr. Moumen El Mehdi, Visiting PhD student, UM6P, Morocco |
| 2025 | Dr. Till Schertenleib, PhD student |