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Yuri is an assistant professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy), where he obtained his PhD degree in 2022 in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering. His primary research interests are molecular technologies for the sensing of single molecules and for molecular computing, with a particular focus on molecular Field-Coupled Nanocomputing, and sustainable electronics. He is the lecturer of “Nanoelectronic Systems” since 2024 and co-lecturer for digital electronics since 2019. In 2021, he was the chair of the IEEE Student Branch of Politecnico di Torino.
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Yannick obtained his PhD at Strasbourg University in 2002 on the theory of nonlinear optics on metallic surfaces. He went to the group of Prof. F. Flores at the Autonomous University in Madrid (2004-2008) to learn Density functional Theory (DFT) methods and developed expertise in theory of van der Waals interactions in graphene and carbon materials, and electronic properties of molecules on surfaces. In 2008, he has been hired as CNRS researcher, and he is now CNRS Research Director at the Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (C2N – CNRS – University Paris Saclay). His main research interests focus on the theoretical study of graphene, 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures, charge density waves in 2D materials, electronic transport in nanostructures, STM image simulations and Molecular Electronics, using DFT and Keldysh-Green methods. Besides he is deputy head of the GDR NEMO which puts together all the researchers in Molecular Electronics in France.
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Mariagrazia received the M.Sc. and PhD degrees in electronics engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino. Since 2008, she has been an Adjunct Faculty with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UFL), Chicago, IL, USA. From 2014 to 2017, she was a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie IntraEuropean Fellow with the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, U.K. Since 2015, she has been a Lecturer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research interests include nanotechnology, emerging technology devices, the simulation and design of nanocomputing devices, architectures, and circuits with physical-aware Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools, field coupling nanocomputing, and quantum computing.
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Carlos holds a degree in Physics from the University of Valencia. He is currently the director of the QT Lab, a laboratory where electron transport experiments are conducted and theoretical models based on molecular dynamics and first-principles calculations are developed. After obtaining his PhD in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the University of Alicante in 2013, Dr. Sabater completed a three-year postdoctoral stay at Leiden University, the Netherlands (2013-2016). Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the prestigious Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel (2017-2018). In 2019, he returned to Spain to take up a tenure-track position (CDEI-GenT-junior) at the University of Alicante (2019-2022). In 2022, he obtained the second tenure-track position (CIDE-GenT-senior), also at the University of Alicante (2023-2026).
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Leonardo is a research associate at the Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) in Germany. His current work focuses on combining machine learning methods with quantum/statistical mechanics to develop physics-inspired neural network potentials for the study of inorganic and organic materials. During his postdoc at the University of Luxembourg, he developed computational frameworks for investigating the dynamics of (bio)molecular systems as well as for data-driven molecular design. In 2018, Leonardo got his doctor degree in Mechanical Engineering at TU Dresden as an IMPRS fellow (International Max Planck Research School). Earlier, he got his bachelor and master’s degree in Physics at the National University of San Marcos in Lima-Peru. In addition to his theoretical investigations, Leonardo actively engages in multi-disciplinary projects with experimental/industrial collaborators to address current challenges in Physics and Chemistry (see Google Scholar page). He is currently the vice-chair of the Peru Chapter of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council. He serves as a referee for numerous scientific journals and has also organized workshops and conferences in the past years.
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Andrea is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. His work focusses on the fabrication of functional single-molecule junctions – extremely small nanoelectronic devices made by one molecule “chemically soldered” to two nanoelectrodes. He has developed single-molecule transistors, nanoelectromechanical devices, and optoelectronic diodes, establishing structure-property relationships and developing novel instrumentation for high-bandwidth measurements. His group works on all aspects of junction fabrication, from the design and synthesis of molecular wires to their nanofabrication and nanomanipulation into single-molecule junctions, and the characterisation of their optoelectronic properties. In addition to support from the Royal Society, Andrea’s research is also in receipt of council funding (EPSRC New Investigator Award, EPSRC Core Equipment Award, ERC Starting Grant / UKRI Frontier Research Grant) and he sits on the management committee of the nanofabrication suite at the University of Liverpool with colleagues in Physics and Engineering.
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Marcel received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2021 for his work on algorithms for the physical design of emerging post-CMOS nanotechnologies. He is currently a Postdoc at the Chair for Design Automation at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, and a Senior Quantum Software Engineer at the Munich Quantum Software Company (MQSC), Germany. He has also been working as a Substitute Professor for the University of Bremen in 2024. Furthermore, he is the initiator and maintainer of the open-source "fiction" framework for the logic synthesis, physical design, verification, and simulation of Field-coupled Nanotechnologies.
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Linda is an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She obtained her physics master’s degree in Bari (Italy, 2003) and her PhD from the University of Liverpool (UK, 2008). After that, she moved to Madrid where she was a postdoctoral researcher in several groups from 2008 to 2014 at the UAM. After working as a post-doc in Trinity College Dublin in 2015, she returned to Madrid as Principal Investigator of a 3-year national project at UAM (2015-2019). In 2019 she obtained a 4-year tenure-track position at Universidad de Sevilla. At the end of 2020, she returned to the UAM to take her position as Assistant Professor. In 2025 she was promoted to a permanent position.
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Molecular dynamics; electron dynamics; single molecule junctions; molecular machines; molecular field-coupled nanocomputing.
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Single-molecule sensors; molecular electronics; electrical transport; nanoelectronics; semiconductor devices and sensors; DFT; NEGF; FEM simulations; compact modeling; QuantumATK; Sentaurus TCAD; MATLAB; Python.
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Molecular electronics; molecular Field-Coupled Nanocomputing; single molecule junctions; nano fabrication.
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Molecular electronics; Biomolecular electronics; Proteins; Interference.
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Quantum Computing; Nanotechnologies; Labs-on-chips; Design Automation.
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