Current Members

From 08/25 positions in Europe are as co-supervisor.
George Simmonds
2025-: PhD, Bayesian inverse problems in atomic simulation
Co-supervision with Prof J Kermode and Prof T Hudson, University of Warwick

Guillaume Commelin
2025-: PhD, analysis and forecasting of dislocation plasticity (ANR DAPREDIS)
Co-supervision with Prof S Queyreau, Paris Nord

Léonard Morachini
2025-: PhD, UQ for atomic simulations of rare events
Co-supervision with Drs T Pidgeon, M Menz IFPEN & MC Marinica CEA

Emna Frikha
2024-: PhD, predicting He retention in plasma-facing W (ANR HEBERTUNE)
Co-supervision with Prof J Mougenot, Paris Nord.

Past Members

Ivan Maliyov
Postdoc, automatic differentiation in materials science
Now: Research Scientist, Microsoft Quantum

Raynol Dsouza
PhD + SALTO scholar, with Prof J Neugebauer (MPIE)
Now: Postdoc, IRSN Caderache

Petr Grigorev
Postdoc, Machine learning assisted DFT methods
Now: Permanent CNRS Researcher, Lyon

Clovis Lapointe
PhD, ML for defect entropics (with Dr MC Marinica, CEA)
Now: Staff scientist, CEA Saclay

Deepti Kannan
MSc, reducing Markov Chains (with Prof DJ Wales, Cam.)
Now: PhD candidate, MIT

Frequent Collaborators

• Dr Mihai-Cosmin Marinica, SRMP, CEA Saclay, FR
• Dr Danny Perez, T-1, Los Alamos, USA
• Prof David Wales FRS, Univ. Cambridge, UK
• Prof Jörg Neugebauer, Max Planck Dusseldorf
• Prof James Kermode, Univ. Warwick, UK
• Prof S Queyreau, Sorbonne Paris Nord