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Makihito Nakamura

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Makihito obtained a BSc degree from Tohoku University in 2021. He continued his studies in polymer physics at Tohoku University (2021 2023) while earning a two-year scholarship from Charitable Trust Iwai Hisao Memorial Education Fund. His master’s thesis focused on mechanical properties of magnetorheological Gels. He studied the influence of the magnetic field application and the cross-linking degree on MRG’s elasticity by means of Molecular Dynamics simulations. During his undergraduate and master’s years, he also served as a teaching assistant in many different classes including Information Science, Statistical Physics and Quantum Mechanics.

Hosting Organisations
Fraunhofer (Freiburg, DE), TME (Zaventem, BE)
PhD Enrollment
ALU-FR (Freiburg, DE)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0235-2783 

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Yanji Yang

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Yanji obtained a BSc degree in Physics in 2021 and a MSc in Physics in 2023, both from the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1.

Hosting Organisations
Imperial (London, UK), TME (Zaventem, BE)
PhD Enrollment
UoC (Heraklion, GR)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0480-5568

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Edoardo Monti

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Edoardo received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering at Università la Sapienza di Roma and continued his studies with an MSc in Aeronautical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, where he specialized in the fields of aerodynamics, applied math, and scientific computing. During the MSc, he joined the Alta Scuola Politecnica, a multidisciplinary and international honors program created by Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino that aims to integrate domain-specific knowledge with interdisciplinary and teamwork skills. He took part in the Erasmus+ program, joining the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for a semester. He conducted research work for his Master’s Thesis at the Center for Hypersonics & Entry Systems Studies (University of Illinois), developing and applying physics-constrained machine learning techniques to extend the validity of the continuum fluid governing equations (Navier-Stokes) in the case of non-equilibrium/rarefied flows. This research has been carried out under the supervision of Professor Marco Panesi (University of Illinois) and Professor Giulio Gori (Politecnico di Milano). Based on this work, he has presented his first scientific paper as a corresponding author at AIAA SciTech Forum2024.

Hosting Organisations
Imperial (London, UK), TME (Zaventem, BE)
PhD Enrollment
UoC (Heraklion, GR)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8340-7940

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Jan Gimpeli Y

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Jan was born in Slovenia in 1999. He received his BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maribor, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Maribor in 2021. For his bachelor’s thesis, he received an award from Henkel Maribor for the best final thesis, titled ‘Identification of Dominant Functional Groups in Antibacterial Compounds.’ Additionally, he received Krka’s special commendation for the same thesis. He continued his studies with an MSc in Chemical Engineering at the same university. He completed an internship with AVL in Maribor, where he modeled and optimized a steam methane reformer reactor. His master’s dissertation was conducted in cooperation with AVL, focusing on the development and implementation of a simulation model for a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reactor for the green transition.

Hosting Organisations
AVL (Graz, AT), UL (Ljubljana, SI)
PhD Enrollment
UL (Ljubljana , SI)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5486-8046

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Xingyou Zhang

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Xingyu completed his BSc in Mechanical Engineering at Chongqing University, China, with a notable academic record, including multiple scholarships and awards for excellence. He furthered his education with a MSc in Mechanical Engineering at Osaka University, Japan, where he was distinguished by his membership in both the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers and The Heat Transfer Society of Japan. Xingyu’s research has made significant contributions to the field of mechanical engineering, particularly through his work on molecular dynamics simulation to understand interfacial thermal resistance, with findings presented at various international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. Alongside his academic and research pursuits, Xingyu has demonstrated a strong capacity for teaching and mentorship, serving as a teaching assistant for courses in thermodynamics and advanced programming. His technical skills span across programming languages, simulation software, and a fluency in Chinese, English, and Japanese, underscoring his versatile expertise and international outlook.

Hosting Organisations
CNRS (Amiens, FR), AVL (Graz, AT)
PhD Enrollment
UPJV (Amiens, FR)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8863-9096

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Hammad Khaliq

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Hammad got a BSc in Mathematics from the Islamia College University in 2020 and his MSc in in Applied Mathematics from COMSATS University of Islamabad, Pakistan in 2023. His MSc thesis was on the theoretical and numerical analysis for time fractional Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard equations.

Hosting Organisations
SISSA (Trieste, IT), AVL (Graz, AT)
PhD Enrollment
SISSA (Trieste, IT)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5442-7566

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Matilde Russo

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Matilde obtained her BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in 2020. She studied for her MSc in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and received her degree in 2023. For her master thesis project, she investigated the pyrocarbon deposition mechanism during pyrolysis for turquoise hydrogen production. The objective was to look for activation energies and reaction enthalpies that could be used to evaluate kinetic constants to be implemented in the kinetic reaction mechanism for the pyrolysis. For the thesis she exploited quantum chemistry principles and numerical modeling tools to evaluate the energy of the molecules participating to pyrolysis. These species are graphene and gaseous small hydrocarbons such as acetylene. The energies of the structures were made both in homogeneous and heterogeneous phase, with the aim of finding a correlation between the two.

Hosting Organisations
Imperial (London, UK), FTI (Freudenberg, DE)
PhD Enrollment
UoC (Heraklion, GR)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9070-5681

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Mateja Jovanović

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Mateja was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1998. He completed his BSc degree at the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade is 2022. He then pursued a MSc degree in physics at the same university, where his thesis was done with collaboration with Scientific Computing Laboratory, Institute of Physics Belgrade (2023). As of November 2023, he is employed at the Freudenberg Technology Innovation SE & Co. KG as part of BLESSED project. In this role he will focus on description of molecular mechanisms for transport and ageing processes in fuel cell membrane using molecular dynamics simulation methods.

Hosting Organisations
FTI (Freudenberg, DE), ITS (Belgrade, RS)
PhD Enrollment
UoB (Belgrade, RS)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4687-9624

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Sourab Barath Vijararaghavan

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Sourab received his Integrated MSc in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry of the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India. He possesses experience in various facets of electrochemistry and materials science. He started his research working on a novel modification to the Pechini synthesis for the solution state synthesis of Lithium-Rich NMC. Following this he pursued an internship from the Centre for Automotive Energy Materials (CAEM), ARCI, IITMRP, Chennai, India – studying the effect of electrolyte additives on passivating spinel oxides paired with graphite. His Master’s thesis titled «In-Silico study of Electrode Passivizing Electrolyte Additives for Lithium-Ion batteries» involved the computational modelling and characterization of a novel additive and benchmarking against existing additives. He then worked on the synthesis and characterization of Spinel Oxides for long calendar life Lithium-ion batteries, as a Project Assistant with FaMaL at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Following this, he is now working on the computational modelling of manufacturing parameters of Catalyst Layers for PEMFCs.

Hosting Organisations
CNRS (Amiens, FR), FTI (Freudenberg, DE)
PhD Enrollment
UPJV (Amiens, FR)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9163-3201

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Rashen Lou Omongos

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Rashen Lou got his BSc in Chemistry from the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology of Philippines in 2018 and his MSc in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling for the University of Trieste in 2023.

Hosting Organisations
CNRS (Amiens, FR), AC2T (Wiener Neustadt, AT)
PhD Enrollment
UPJV (Amiens, FR)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7064-5240

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Víctor Román Baena

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Victor got his BSc in Physics from the University of Barcelona in 2019 and his MSc in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the same university in 2020. He worked in CIDETEC, in San Sebastián, Spain as a junior researcher on postmortem and modelling of lithium-ion batteries before joining TU Wien as a Doctoral Candidate in the framework of the BLESSED project.

Hosting Organisations
TU Wien (Vienna, AT), FOSS (Peiraeus, GR)
PhD Enrollment
TU Wien (Vienna, AT)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0288-6536

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Gabriel Taillandier

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Gabriel, born in Nantes, France in 2000, is a Chemical Engineer graduated from the University of Strasbourg but also holds an MSc in Organic Chemistry from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. During his engineering studies, he undertook an internship at the company Elkem in Lyon (France), where he learned how to construct databases and applications for a research team. In 2022, he began a master’s degree in organic chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and he conducted his master’s thesis at IMDEA Energy, where he computationally studied hundreds of targeted organic molecules for a redox flow battery.

Hosting Organisations
Matgenix (Charleroi, BE), UoC (Heraklion, GR)
PhD Enrollment
UoC (Heraklion, GR)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9544-0982

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Julien Kolbecher

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Julien commenced his studies in the field of Chemistry and Physical Engineering in Bordeaux, France, subsequently focusing on energy storage and conversion. Throughout his scholarly journey, he conducted several research internships across Europe, where he made contributions to the recycling of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels and the modelling of argyrodite materials at quantum scale for battery applications. He currently started a PhD in Computational Chemistry to understand the electrochemical degradation reactions in fuel cells using DFT codes.

Hosting Organisations
Simune (San Sebastian, ES), ALU-FR (Freiburg, DE)
PhD Enrollment
ALU-FR (Freiburg, DE)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8064-3220

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Karina Chiñas Fuentes

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Hosting Organisations
TME (Zaventem, BE), UoC (Heraklion, GR)
PhD Enrollment
UoC (Heraklion, GR)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3269-8159