Lab Philosophy

• I am not hiring as main supervisor until August 2025
  
• thomas.swinburne-at-cnrs.fr for US opportunities
• Research projects balance applications with math/theory/methods depending on your interests- both are great.
• Current theory topics: post-Bayesian uncertainty quantification, data-driven coarse-graining, accelerated sampling of rare events
• Current applications: defect diffusion, aging in nuclear materials, irradiation damage, crystal plasticity and work-hardening
• My goal is to train and help you perform high-quality, boundary-pushing work, not to micromanage.
• See below for past members and their current employment

Open Positions

PhD + Postdoc (Paris) in ANR PRC DAPREDIS
Data-Driven prediction of dislocation plasticity
I am PI for this exciting project, which will be conducted under co-PI Sylvain Queyreau, LPSM, Sorbonne, Paris Nord. As of 4/25, we are hiring. Please email me for more information, including your CV.

Current Members (co-supervision)

Raynol Dsouza
Postdoc, ML for irradiation damage (under Dr A Allera, IRSN, Caderache)
(Previously PhD + SALTO scholar (with myself and Prof J Neugebauer)

Emna Frikha
PhD, He retention in W (under Prof J Mougenot, Sorbonne Paris Nord)

Past Members

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

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

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

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

Main Collaborators

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