Current members
Edgar Roldán
ICTP Associate Research Officer
Research interests: stochastic thermodynamics, biophysics, martingales, active matter,
random walks, experiments in nonequilibrium physics
Teaching: Professor of Biophysics (ICTP and Universita di Trieste)
Biophysics – ICTP QLS diploma program
Link to Youtube lectures
Education: PhD in Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Debraj Das
Postdoc – ICTP
Research interests: Stochastic thermodynamics, random walks, long-range interacting systems, quantum measurements
Education: PhD in Physics, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India
Léa Bresque
Postdoc – ICTP
Research interests:Stochastic thermodynamics, quantum measurements, quantum thermodynamics, nonequilibrium physics, quantitative biology, quantum biology
Education: Engineering diploma, Supaero, ISAE, France ; PhD in Physics: “Energetics of quantum measurements”, Neel Institute, France (P.C. Olivier Ezratty)
Yonathan Sarmiento
PhD student – Joint SISSA-ICTP program
Research interests: Stochastic Thermodynamics, Non-equilibrium System, Biophysics.
Pierluigi Muzzeddu
PhD student – SISSA
Research interests: Stochastic Thermodynamics, Active Matter
Education: SISSA PhD student
Constantino di Bello
Visiting PhD student
Research interests: Stochastic Thermodynamics, Martingales, Resetting, Stochastic transport
Education: PhD student University of Potsdam
Rita Majumdar
PhD student – STEP program
Research interests:Stochastic Thermodynamics, Non-equilibrium System, Active Matter, Stochastic Heat Engine, Fluctuation Theorems, Jarzynski Relation and Biophysics
Education: Msc in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Valentina Bedoya
Visiting PhD student – SISSA
Research interests:Stochastic Thermodynamics, Physics of biological systems, Computational Physics
Education: ICTP QLS Diploma
Former members
Sarah Loos
QLS Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests: Statistical physics, non-Markovian dynamics, stochastic processes, thermodynamics and fluctuations, active matter, non-linear dynamics
Current position: Marie Curie Fellow at University of Cambridge
Gennaro Tucci
PhD student – SISSA
Research interests: Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, stochastic processes, biophysics
Education: Master in “Physics of Complex Systems”, Politecnico di Torino/Sissa/Ictp/Université Paris 7
Current position: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Annwesha Dutta
Postdoctoral fellow
Research interests: Biological Physics, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Education: PhD in Physics, IIT Kanpur
Current position: INSPIRE Faculty, IISER Tirupati
Roman Belousov
Postdoctoral fellow
Research interests: biophysics, active matter, statistical physics, stochastic dynamics, thermodynamics and fluctuations
Education: PhD in Earth Sciences, Università di Torino
Current position: PhD student in Massimiliano Esposito group (University of Luxembourg)
Kristian Pajanonot
ICTP Diploma student
Research interests: Stochastic Thermodynamics, Biophysics
Laila Saliekh
ICTP Diploma student
Research interests: Biophysics, Stochastic thermodynamics
Education: Bsc in Physics, Islamic University of Gaza.
Maryalbis Patiño
ICTP Diploma student
Research interests: Physics of biological systems, stochastic thermodynamics.
Education: Bachelor in Physics. Universidad de Los Andes.
Tarek Tohme
MSc student
Research interests: Stochastic thermodynamics, thermodynamics of information, computational physics, algorithm design and development, computational logic
Education: Masters in Theoretical Computer Science, École Polytechnique, Paris
Debarshi Banerjee
MSc student
Research interests: Biophysics, Stochastic Processes, Deep Neural Networks to investigate chemical and biological processes
Education: Master of High-Performance Computing, ICTP, Trieste
Gülce Kardeş
ICTP Predoctoral researcher
Research interests: Stochastic thermodynamics; theory of computational complexity
Education: B.Sc. in Physics, University of Leipzig
Irem Topal
Visiting PhD student
Research interests: Complex networks, statistical learning, dynamical systems, chaos, molecular dynamics
Education: BSc and MSc in Physics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
Current position: PhD in Computational Sciences and Engineering, Kadir Has University
Pedro Eduardo Harunari
Visiting PhD student
Research interests: Stochastic thermodynamics
Current position: PhD student in Universidade de Sao Paulo
Ashwin Gopal
Master student
Research interests: Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, stochastic thermodynamics, critical phenomena, long-range interactions, active matter, glassy systems
Education: Integrated Bsc-Msc in Physics, IISER Pune
Current position: PhD student in Massimiliano Esposito group (University of Luxembourg)
Fahad Kamulegeya
ICTP Postgraduate Diploma Student
Research interests: Stochastic thermodynamics, Computational, structural and theoretical biophysics, Statistical physics, Non-equilibrium Physics, Active matter, Random walks
Education: BSc Physics and Mathematics, Makerere University
Current position: Research Assistant at Anton Goloborodko Lab, IMBA (Vienna)
Ekaterina Vedenchuk
Summer student
July 2019
Research interests: biophysics, random walks, fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics
Education: MSc at Mechanics and Mathematical Modelling, St. Petersburg State University
Current position: Researcher at Align Technologies
Jane Garcia
Summer student
July 2019
Research interests: stochastic resetting, biophysics, first passage processes
Education: MSc in Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
Current position: PhD in Physics, University of California, Merced
Alexandre Guillet
Summer Student
June-July 2017 and 2018
Research interests: biophysics, stochastic thermodynamics, wavelet transform, coherence/consonance in rhythmic signals (musical, physiological, etc)
Education: Msc ENS-ICFP Paris
Current position: PhD student in Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
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