Francis LévyAprès sa formation secondaire à La Chaux-de-Fonds, Francis Lévy étudie à l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich où il obtient le diplôme de physicien (1963). Assistant au Laboratoire de physique des corps solides de l'ETHZ, il publie sa thèse de doctorat sur les propriétés structurales et magnétiques de composés des terres rares (1969). A l'Institut de physique appliquée de l'EPFL, ses recherches concernent la croissance de cristaux et la physique des semi-conducteurs. De 1974 à 1975, au Laboratoire Cavendish de l'Université de Cambridge (UK), il étudie les matériaux à structures cristallines de basse dimensionnalité et leurs propriétés électroniques. De retour à l'EPFL, ses recherches portent sur de nombreux composés des métaux de transition. Il crée un groupe de recherche sur la physique et les technologies pour les couches minces. Ses travaux visent à comprendre les propriétés physique et chimiques de couches minces fonctionnelles en relation avec des caractéristiques structurales et électroniques ainsi qu'avec des paramètres de dépôt.
Avec le titre de professeur (1987), il enseigne la physique générale, la physique du solide et des semi-conducteurs. Il est l'auteur du volume 18 du Traité des Matériaux: Physique et Technologie des Semi-conducteurs (PPUR) ainsi que auteur ou coauteur de plus de 460 publications scientifiques originales.
Vincenzo SavonaVincenzo Savona studied physics in Pisa at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa, prior to completing his PhD at the EPFL's Institute of Theoretical Physics. Subsequently he did post-doctoral work, first at the EPFL and then in the physics department of the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2002, he returned to the EPFL to create his own research group, receiving a "professeur boursier" fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2006, he was appointed tenure-track assistant professor at the EPFL and joined the NCCR for Quantum Photonics. In 2010 he was appointed associate professor. Currently he directs the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems.
Henrik Moodysson RønnowHenrik Ronnow was born in Copenhagen in 1974. He was awarded his master's degree in physics in 1996. Having earned his doctorate in 2000, he left Denmark for training at the Laue-Langevin Institute in Grenoble. Between 2000 and 2002, he held a Marie Curie Fellowship hosted by the Atomic Energy Commission. In 2002 he was appointed as an invited researcher at the NEC Laboratories in Princeton, then at the University of Chicago's James Franck Institute. In 2003, he became a researcher at the Laboratory for Neutron Scattering (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) and at the Paul Scherrer Institute. In 2007 he was appointed Assistant Professor at Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL). In 2012 he was promoted to Associate Professor. Profession 2012- Associate Professor, Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism, EPFL, Switzerland 2007-2012 Assistant Professor, Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism, EPFL, Switzerland 2003-2006 Scientist, Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, ETH-Zürich & Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland 2002-2003 Visiting Scientist, NEC-Laboratories Inc., Princeton, and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, USA 2000-2002 Marie Curie Fellowship funded by the EU, hosted by Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble, France 2000 Postdoc, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France 1996 Research assistant, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark Education 2000 Ph.D. in Physics, Risø National Laboratory and University of Copenhagen: Aspects of quantum magnetism in one, two and three dimensions 1996 M.Sc. in Physics, University of Copenhagen: Magnetic properties of holmium-erbium alloys 1995 B.Sc in Mathematics, University of Copenhagen 1994 B.Sc in Physics, University of Copenhagen 1992 High school graduate, Natural Sciences, Scolae Academiae Sorana
Simone FrascaSimone Frasca received his BEng in Aerospace Engineering from University of Naples "Federico II" in 2014 and his MEng in Space Engineering from University of Pisa in 2017. He undertook his Master's thesis research at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he studied MgB2 material systems Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors (SNSPDs). From 2017 to 2018 he was research affiliate at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he worked on ultrafast SNSPDs and their applications. Since September 2018 he has been pursuing a Ph.D. at EPFL in the Advanced Quantum Architectures Laboratory (AQUA) under the supervision of Prof. Edoardo Charbon, concentrating in fabrication of SNSPDs and focusing on possible applications like Space Imaging, LiDAR, Optical Communication and Time-Of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOFPET).
