Students, post-doc, senior collaborators

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PhD students

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• Guilhem Semerjian   Laboratoire de Physique Théorique - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France
  Thesis Modèles dilués en physique statistique : dynamiques hors d'équilibre et algorithmes d'optimisation
  (18 June 2004).
  At present Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France
  
• Davide Loi   ESRF, Grenoble, France - Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI - LPTHE
  Thesis Modèles de matière active : étude numérique des propriétés structurales et dynamiques.
  Présentation orale (11 Juin 2009); co-advisor Stefano Mossa (CEA, Grenoble)
  At present Software Sardegna, Italia
• Alberto Sicilia   LPTHE Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI Jussieu
  September 2006 - 18 September 2009
  Thesis Out of equilibrium dynamics through a phase transition.
  Présentation orale (18 Septembre 2009)
  After October 2009 Post-doc at The University of Cambridge, UK; next post-doc at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espana. At present journalist and blogger Principia Marsupia Blog Twitter Instagram
• Camille Aron   LPTHE Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI Jussieu
  September 2007 - 20 September 2010, co-directed by Marco Picco
  Thesis Dynamique hors d'équilibre classique et quantique. Formalisme et applications.
  Présentation orale (20 September 2010)
  Master Edwards-Anderson and Random Field Ising Models: Dynamical Correlation Length. Continuous-Time Monte Carlo, Parallel Tempering.
  After October 2010 post-doc at Rutgers University and Princeton University, USA. At present CNRS researcher at Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies, ENS, Paris on leave at EPFL Lausanne Switzerland
  
• Demian Levis   LPTHE Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI Jussieu
  September 2009 - 26 octobre 2012
  Thesis Two dimensional spin-ice and the sixteen vertex model
  Présentation orale (26 octobre 2012)
  After 2021 post-doc at Montpellier, Koln, EPFL. At present professor at Universidad de Barcelona
  
• Julius Bonart   LPTHE Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI Jussieu
  September 2010 - September 2013
  Phase transitions and diffusion in dissipative classical and quantum systems
  Présentation orale (4 octobre 2013)
  After 2013: post-doc at Capital Fund Management-Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance, Lecturer at University College London, Quantitative Researcher at Citadel LLC UK
  
• Hugo Ricateau   LPTHE Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI Jussieu
  September 2014 - September 2017
  Dynamique hors équilibre des théories classiques des champs et des modèles de spin d'Ising
  Présentation orale (29 Septembre 2017)
  After 2017 private activity, Paris area
• Alessandro Tartaglia   LPTHE Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI Jussieu
  September 2015 - September 2018
  Coarsening and percolation in 2d kinetic Ising models and Quench dynamics of the isolated p = 2 spherical spin glass model
  Présentation orale (27 September 2018) co-advisor M. Picco
  After 2018 ICT consulting in the Milano area, Italy.
• Mathias Casiulis   LPTHE & LPTMC Sorbonne Université
  September 2016 - September 2019
  Etude d'un modèle Hamiltonien de liquide non-Galiléen : du mouvement collectif sans activité
  main advisor M. Tarzia
  After 2019 post-doc at Technion, Haifa, Israel, next New York University, USA
  See The Lutetium Project
  
• Damien Barbier LPTHE Sorbonne Université
  September 2018 - September 2021
  Non-trivial dynamics of simple models: examples from classical spin glasses, integrable systems and quantum localization
  After 2021 post-doc at EPFL Switzerland, at present post-doc at Bocconi U, Milano
• Greivin Alfaro LPTHE Sorbonne Université
  September 2022 - September 2025
  Ergodicity Breaking in Disordered Matter: Novel Methods Across Physical Systems
  After 2025 post-doc at Karlsruhe University, Germany.
  
• Lorenzo Tonetti LPTHE Sorbonne Université
  September 2025 - September 2028
  

Collaboration with other graduate students

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• Florence Alberici-Kious (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France, 1999-2000)
  
• Thibault Arnoulx de Pirey (Université de Paris, France, 2020-2022. Now at Technion, Haifa, Israel)
  
• Ludovic Berthier (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France, 2001. Univ. Montpellier, EPSCI Paris France)
  
• Giulio Biroli (Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris, France, 2001. IPhT, Saclay, CEA, ENS Paris, France)
  
• Thibault Blanchard (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 2011-2014)
    Thesis: Morphology of domains in and out of equilibrium
• Sebastian Bustingorry (Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina, 2004-2006. Now at Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina.)
  
• Patrick Charbonneau (Harvard University, USA, 2004. Now prof. at Duke University, USA.)
  
• Claudio Caporusso (Universita di Bari, Italia)
    Tesi di Laurea: Proprietà di aggregazione e leggi di crescita per i cluster di particelle attive (2020)
    PhD thesis: Aggregation and Dynamics of Active Particle Systems: From Active Clusters to Chiral Fluids (2020-2023)
  
• Riccardo Cipolloni (Universita di Roma Sapienza, Italia)
  
• Lorenzo Correale (SISSA, Italia, 2023)
  Thesis Chaos and thermalization in semi-classical and Floquet systems
  
• Marco Esposito (Imperial College, London, UK, 2019-2021)
  
• Raphael Exartier (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France, 1999-2002. At present: Senior Manager Software Development, Nice Area, France)
  
• Pasquale Digregorio (Università di Bari, Italia, 2016-2020)
    Thesis: Phase behavior and topological defects of self-propelled particles in 2D, Oral presentation
    Next post-doc at EPFL, Switzerland and Barcelona, Spain)
  
• M. Victoria Ferreyra (Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina)
  
• Laura Foini (SISSA Italia and Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. Now CNRS researcher at IPhT Saclay France)
  
• Pedro H. de Freitas Pimenta (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil)
  
• Pamela Guruciaga (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina)
  
• Malcolm Kennett (Princeton University USA, 2002-2004. Prof. at Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, Canada.)
  
• Alejandro Kolton (Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina, 2002. Now at Centro Atomico Bariloche.)
  
• Gianluca Laghezza (University of Oxford, 2013-2016).
  
• Homero Lozza (Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2002-2006. Now at Instituto Nacional del Agua, Ezeiza, Argentina)
  
• Isabella Petrelli (Università di Bari, Italia, 2017-2020)
  
• Antonio Suma (SISSA, Italia, 2013-2016. Next post-doc Temple Univ. Philadelphia. At present prof. Univ. di Bari)
  
• Onofrio Mazzarisi (Università di Salerno, Italia, 2018-2020)
    Thesis: Out of equilibrium problems in classical spin models of statistical mechanics
    At present: post-doc at Leipzig, Germany
  
• Xhek Turkeshi (SISSA, Italia, 2020-2021)
  
• Andrea Velenich (Boston University, USA, 2008. Now at MIT, USA)
  
• Davide Venturelli Stochastic dynamics in complex landscapes (SISSA Italia, 2022-2023)
  
• David Yllanes (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espana)
  
• Francesco Zamponi (Università di Roma I, Italia, 2002-2004. Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris, Univ di Roma I)
  
• Mingyuan Zheng (Department of Chemistry, Duke University, USA. Function Hub, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 511455, Guangzhou, China 2025)
  
  

Post-docs

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• Constantino da Silva Santos 1999 - 2001
  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
  Address after Sept 2001: Departamento de Fisica Universidad de Granada, Espana
  Next professor at the Mathematics Department, Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, Portugal
  
• José Luis Iguain 2000 - 2002
  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
  Address after Sept 2002: Physics Department University of Montreal Canada.
  At present permanent researcher CONICET and associate professor at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina
  
• Eytan Katzav 2004 - 2005
  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
  At present Professor at the Racah Institute, University of Jerusalem, Israel
  
• Silvano Garnerone 2006 - 2007
  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
  Address after February 2008: Physics Department, University of California - Davis USA
  
• Asja Jelic 2009 - 2010
  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
  Address after March 2010: Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
  
• Marcos Paulo Loureiro 2010 - 2011
  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
  Address after December 2011: Universidade de Vicoca, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  
• Ana Carolina Ribeiro-Texeira 2011 - 2012
  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
  Address after 2012: Universidade Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre
• Laura Foini 2011 - 2012
  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
  At present CNRS researcher at IPhT Saclay France
  
• Nicolás Nessi 2015 - 2018
  Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina (collaboration ECOS-Sud & PICS)
  At present researcher at CONICET and assistant professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
• Ramgopal Agrawal 2022 - 2024
  Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
• Rafael González Albaladejo 2025 - 2026
  Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
• Renan de Almeida 2025 - 2026
  Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu
  
• Rodolgo Silva da Rocha 2025 - 2026
  Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies - Jussieu

Stages

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• Andrea Baldassarri (Tesi di Laurea, Universita di Roma I, Italia)
  In collaboration with Jorge Kurchan and Miguel A. Virasoro
  
• Vassilis Spyratos (stage long ENS Paris 2004)
  Stage: De l'influence de l'urbanisation sur le regime des feux de foret.
  In collaboration with Patrick Bourgeron (Chaire Pascal a l'ENS and University of Colorado at Boulder) and Michael Ghil (ENS Paris)
  
• Alberto Sicilia (stage M2 Paris VI 2006)
  Stage: Croissance de domaines en modèles d'Ising en 2D sans et avec desordre gelé
  
• Ludovic Jaubert (stage long ENS Lyon 2006)
  Stage: Fluctuations spatio-temporelles dynamiques en verres de spins
  In collaboration with Marco Picco (LPTHE Jussieu)
  
• Camille Aron (stage M2 Paris VI 2007)
  Stage: Edwards-Anderson & random field models: dynamical correlation length, continuous time Monte Carlo and parallel tempering
  In collaboration with Marco Picco (LPTHE Jussieu)
  
• Yoann Sarrazin (stage M2 Paris VI 2008)
  Stage: Croissance des domaines en paramètre d'ordre conservé
  In collaboration with Alberto Sicilia (LPTHE Jussieu)
  
• Marco Baity Jesi (stage long ENS Paris 2009)
  Stage: Une étude analytique et numérique du modèle Blume-Capel
  In collaboration with Camille Aron and Alberto Sicilia (LPTHE Jussieu)
  
• Thibault Blanchard (stage M2 Paris VI 2011)
  Stage: Study of domain growth between critical points
  In collaboration with Marco Picco (LPTHE Jussieu)
  
• Louis Gallouin (stage M2 ENS Paris 2013)
  Stage: Quenches in Phi4 theory
  
• Hugo Ricateau (stage M2 ENS Paris 2014)
  Stage: Quenches in Phi4 theory
  
• Alessandro Tartaglia (stage M2 Systèmes complexes 2015)
  Stage: Dynamics of the voter model
  In collaboration with Marco Picco (LPTHE)
  
• Ferdinando Insalata (tesi di Laurea, Università di Salerno, Italia 2016)
  Stage: Coarsening and percolation in the inhomogeneous Ising model
  In collaboration with Federico Corberi (Salerno) and Marco Picco (LPTHE)
  
• Pasquale Digregorio (tesi di Laurea, Università di Bari, Italia 2016)
  Stage: Phase transitions in an active dumbbell system
  In collaboration with Giuseppe Gonnella (Bari) and Antonio Suma (SISSA Trieste)
  
• Aigars Langins (stage M1 2017)
  Stage: Investigation of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation
  
• Marco Esposito (tesi di Laurea, Universitá di Salerno, Italia 2018)
  Stage: Multinucleation in the first-order phase transition of the 2d Potts model
  In collaboration with Federico Corberi (Salerno) and Marco Picco (LPTHE)
  
• Damien Barbier (stage M2 ENS Paris 2018)
  Stage: Out of equilibrium dynamics of classical mean-field spin models
  
• Marlone Nugent (stage M1 Sorbonne Université 2018)
  Stage: Etude des corrélation à trois points du modèle d'Ising cinétique en deux dimensions
  
• Ludovic Dumoulin (stage M1 Sorbonne Université 2018)
  Stage: Etude numérique de la dynamique stochastique du modèle p-spin avec des interactions non symétriques
  
• Hugo Bacry (stage M2 and 4th year ENS Paris 2019)
  Stage: Finite temperature order by disorder in the Domino model with well-tuned random fields
  In collaboration with Marco Tarzia (LPTMC Sorbonne Université)
• Nicolás Boris Sáenz (stage M1 Sorbonne Université 2020)
  
• Sebastian Castedo (stage M1 Sorbonne Université 2022)
  Stage: Analysis of Coupled Langevin Equations: Application to Magneto-Mechanical Systems
  
• Victor Delapalme (stage M1 Sorbonne Université 2024)
  Stage: Étude des propriétés des matrices de Wishart à l'aide de la méthode des répliques
  In collaboration with M. Tarzia and D. Venturelli
  
• Giuseppe Conte (tesi di Laurea Università di Pavia, Italia 2024-2025)
  
• Dimitri Taras (stage M1 Sorbonne Université)
  
• Lorenzo Tonetti (stage M2 Sorbonne Université)
  
  

Senior collaborators

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• Fabien Alet (Université de Toulouse, France)
  
• Luca Angelani (Universita di Roma I, Italia)
  
• Liliana Arrachea (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  
• Jeferson Arenzon (Universidade Federal Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
  
• Daniel Barci (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  
• Alvise Bastianello (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
  
• Federico Bonetto (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)
  
• Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (Capital Fund Management, France)
  
• Alan Bray (University of Manchester, UK)
  
• Eduardo Bringa (Universidad de Mendoza, Argentina)
  
• Livio Carenza (Istanbul, Turkey)
  
• Horacio Castillo (University of Ohio USA)
  
• Claudio Chamon (Boston University, USA)
  
• Alessio Chiocchetta (University of Kohl, Germany)
  
• Antonio Coniglio (Università di Napoli, Italia)
  
• Federico Corberi (Università di Salerno, Italia)
  
• Olivier Dauchot (Ecole de Physique et Chimie Industrielle de Paris)
  
• David S. Dean (Université de Bordeaux, France)
  
• Gonzalo dos Santos (Univerdidad de Mendoza, Argentina)
  
• Pierre-Michel Déjardin Université de Perpignan, France
  
• Jacopo de Nardis Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France
  
• Ingo Dierking (Manchester University, UK)
  
• Daniel Domínguez (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina)
  
• Pierre Doussineau (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
  
• Gabriel Fabricius (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
  
• Eduardo S. Fradkin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  
• Lara Faoro (Google, Santa Barbara, USA)
  
• Andrea Gambassi (SISSA, Trieste, Italia)
  
• Thierry Giamarchi (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
  
• Giuseppe Gonnella (Università di Bari, Italia)
  
• Zochil González-Arenas (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  
• Daniel R. Grempel (deceased)
• Niels Gronbech-Jensen (University of California - Davis, USA)
  
• Jacques Hammann (Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé Saclay, France -- retired)
  
• Lev Ioffe (Google, Santa Barbara, USA)
  
• Walter Kob (Université de Montpellier, France)
  
• Michikazu Kobayashi (University of Kyoto, Japan)
  
• Robert Konik (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
  
• Dirk Kreimer (Institut de Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France & Boston University, USA)
  
• Jorge Kurchan (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France)
  
• Nicolas Laflorencie (Université de Toulouse, France)
  
• Antonio Lamura Università di Bari, Italia
  
• Vivien Lecomte Université de Grenoble - Alpes
  
• Pierre Le Doussal (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France)
  
• Alain Levelut (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France -- retired)
  
• Gustavo Lozano (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  
• Virginia Manías (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
  
• Marc Mézard (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
  
• Remi Monasson (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France)
  
• Andrea Montanari (Stanford University, USA)
  
• Hugo Montani (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina)
  
• Enrique Moreno (West Virginia University, USA)
  
• Stefano Mossa (CEA, Grenoble, France)
  
• Markus Müller (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)
  
• Giuseppe Negro (Università di Bari, Italia)
  
• Nicolás Nessi (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  
• Miguel Ocio (deceased)
  
• Ignacio Pagonabarraga (Universidad de Barcelona, Espana & EPFL Lausanne)
  
• Giorgio Parisi (Università di Roma I, Italia)
  
• Milosz Panfil (University of Warsaw, Poland)
• Luca Peliti (Università di Napoli, Italia)
  
• Alessandro Pelizzola (Politecnico di Torino, Italia)
  
• Marco Picco (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, France)
  
• David Reichman (Columbia University USA)
  
• Felix Ritort (Universidad de Barcelona, Espana)
  
• Federico Romá (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina)
• Gerardo Rossini (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
  
• Giancarlo Ruocco (Università di Roma I, Italia)
  
• Fidel A. Schaposnik (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
  
• Gregory Schehr (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies)
  
• Marco Schirò (IPhT Saclay and Collège de France, France)
  
• Mauro Sellitto (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italia)
  
• Daniel Stariolo (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil)
  
• Marco Tarzia (LPTMC, Sorbonne Université France)
  
• Adriano Tiribocchi (CNR Roma, Italia)
  
• Julien Tranchida (CEA, France)
  
• Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
  
• Frédéric van Wijland (Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France)
• Eric Vincent (Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensée, Saclay, France)
  
• Héctor Vucetich (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
  
• Hajime Yoshino (Osaka University, Japon)
  
• Eric R. Weeks (Emory University, USA)