Team

Principal Investigator

Philippe Schwaller

Philippe Schwaller joined EPFL as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering in February 2022. He leads the Laboratory of Artificial Chemical Intelligence, which works on AI-accelerated discovery and synthesis of molecules. Philippe is also a core PI of the NCCR Catalysis, a Swiss centre for sustainable chemistry research, education, and innovation. He belongs to a new generation of scientists with a broad set of skills – in his case a combination of chemistry, materials science, computer science, and experimental research.

• 5 years at IBM Research – Zurich (with Dr. Teodoro Laino)
• PhD (2021) in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences (with Prof. Jean-Louis Reymond), University of Bern
• MPhil (2019) in Physics, University of Cambridge
• BSc (2014) and MSc (2016) in Materials Science & Engineering, EPFL

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Postdoctoral Associates

Stéphane d’Ascoli

• AI4Science research fellow
• PhD (2021) in deep learning, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris and Facebook AI Research (FAIR)
• BSc and MSc in theoretical physics
• Research interests include overparameterized neural networks and their applications to computer vision, symbolic mathematics and the natural sciences

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Administrative Assistant

Annick Gaudin () – the amazing person who makes sure that all things run smoothly.

PhD Students

Bojana Ranković

• Started in March 2022
• MSc in Computer Science, EPFL
• BSc in Computer Science, University of Belgrade

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Oliver Schilter

• Started in April 2022 (based at IBM Research)
• MSc and BSc in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, ETHZ

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Andres CM Bran

• Started in August 2022
• BSc in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin

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Junwu Chen

• Started in August 2022
• MSc in Chemical Engineering from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

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Jeff Guo

• Started in September 2022
• AstraZeneca Grad Program
• MRes, Imperial College London and BSc, McGill University

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Víctor Sabanza Gil

• Started in October 2022
• Joint with LPDC
• MSc in Complex Systems Chemistry, Université de Strasbourg (France)
• BSc in Chemistry, Universidad de La Rioja (Spain)

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Paulo Neves

• Started in January 2023 (with Janssen Pharmaceuticals)
• BSc and MSc in Physics Engineering, NOVA School of Science and Technology

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Rebecca Neeser

• Started in April 2023
• Joint with LPDI
• BSc and Msc in Pharmaceutical Sciences from ETH Zurich and master thesis at MIT

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Project Students

Artur Stefaniuk

• February - June 2023
• Master’s thesis
• MSc and BSc in Molecular & Biological Chemistry, EPFL

Malte Franke

• February - June 2023
• Project student
• BSc in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen
• MSc in Chemical Engineering, RWTH Aachen

Lucien Brey

• February - June 2023
• Project student
• MSc and BSc in Chemistry, EPFL

Xu Huang

• March 2023 - July 2023
• Bachelor’s thesis
• Senior undergraduate at Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeresity

Cheng-Hua (Lance) Huang

• April 2023 - August 2023
• Master’s thesis
• BSc in Material Science & Engineering (MSE) at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• MSc in MSE at EPFL

Alumni

Project students

• Théo Neukomm (EPFL, master semester project, Fall 2022)
• Anna Kapeliukha (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, Spring 2023)