Professional employmentTenure-track scientist11/2023 - presentPlace: Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland Senior research scientist / Staff scientist02/2021 - 10/2023Host professor: Prof. Nicola MarzariPlace: STI IMX THEOS, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)Postdoctoral researcher02/2016 - 01/2021Advisor: Prof. Nicola MarzariPlace: STI IMX THEOS, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)Postdoctoral researcher07/2013 - 01/2016Advisor: Prof. Stefano BaroniPlace: Condensed Matter Sector, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste, Italy)Postdoctoral researcher04/2013 - 06/2013Advisor: Dr. Nathalie VastPlace: Laboratoire des Solides Irradies, Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France)EducationPhDSeptember 2009 - March 2013Advisor: Dr. Nathalie VastPlace: Laboratoire des Solides Irradi'es, Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, FranceTitle: Ab initio study of plasmons and electron-phonon coupling in bismuth: from free-carrier absorption towards a new method for electron energy-loss spectroscopyDate of defense: 27.03.2013Honors: PhD degree in physics with honors