The TheoSim Group
The TheoSim Group consists of approximately a dozen permanent members, along with an equivalent number of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Each researcher organizes their work around their specific interests while contributing to one or more of the group's scientific axes. The group is coordinated by Carine Clavaguéra.
Federica Agostini (Associate Professor with HDR, on leave since 01/2026), Pierre Archirel (volunteer researcher), Fabien Cailliez (Associate Professor with HDR), Carine Clavaguéra (Senior Researcher), Isabelle Demachy (Professor), Michèle Desouter-Lecomte (Professor emerita), Dominik Domin (CNRS Research Engineer), Roberto Flores (PR Universidad de Guadalajara, invited researcher), Philippe Hiberty (Senior Researcher emeritus), Aurélien de la Lande (Senior Researcher), David Lauvergnat (Senior Researcher), Pascal Pernot (Senior Researcher retiring in 2024), Van-Oanh Nguyen-Thi (Associate Professor with HDR), Melody Aeck (PhD student), Thomas Boukeke-Lesplulier (PhD student), Emeline Boyer (PhD student), Justin Grill (PhD student), Duc Le Vu (PhD student), Roberta Leonetti (PhD student), Claudia Magi (PhD student), Naija Pison (PhD student co-supervised CEA Marcoule), Rafael Porras (PhD student, co-supervised Univ. Exeter), Mathéo Ségaud (PhD student), Raphaël Vangheluwe (PhD student)
Alumni : Robert Afansounoudji (visiting PhD student from Togo 2024), Aurelio Alvarez Ibarra (postdoctoral researcher 2019-2021), Julia Attard (PhD student co-supervised by University of Pau), Carlos Bouthelier (visiting PhD student from the USA 2022 now postdoctoral researcher in Spain), Jessica Bowles (PhD student 2019-2022 now postdoctoral researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Valeriu Cemortan (postdoctoral researcher 2022-2023 now research engineer), Ahai Chen (postdoctoral researcher 2019-2021now group leader in China), Jean Deviers (PhD student co-supervised by University of Exeter, 2020-2023 now position in the private sector), Baptiste Etcheverry (doctorant 2022-2025), Sara Giarrusso (post-doctorante, maintenant assistant professor Eindhoven University of Technology), Lea-Maria Ibele (post-doctorante, maintenant chercheur CNRS Marseille), Feven-Alemu Korsaye (PhD student co-supervised by Chimie ParisTech, 2020-2023 now postdoctoral researcher at University of Vienna, Austria), Felix Moncada (visiting PhD student from Colombia 2019 now postdoctoral researcher in Sweden), Karwan Omar (PhD student 2020-2023 now assistant lecturer at the University of Sulaimani, Iraq), Angela Parise (PhD student co-supervised by University of Calabria, 2019-2022 now postdoctoral researcher at SISSA Trieste, Italy), Carlotta Pieroni (PhD student co-supervised by University of Pisa now project manager in the cosmetic industry, Italy), Issa Rabiou (doctorant visiteur Togo, 2023-2024), Eduarda Sangiogo-Gil (postdoctoral researcher 2022-2023 now group leader at University of Vienna, Austria), Peter Schürger (post-doctorant, maintenant Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems), Francesco Talotta (PhD Student 2018-2022 now Associate Professor at Université de Lorraine, Rika Tandiana (PhD student 2019-2022 now researcher at Qubit Pharmaceuticals, Damien Tolu (PhD student 2020-2023 now position in IT in the private sector), Xiaojing Wu (PhD student 2015-2018 now position in the private sector)
