The Group

Our research activities are based at École Polytechnique, within the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPHT), and at the Chair of Condensed Matter Physics of the Collège de France. We divide our time between these two locations.

Our work focuses in particular on concrete computational methods and numerical applications to quantum many-body physics, strongly correlated materials, and chemistry. In particular, we develop deep-learning-based methods for large-scale quantum simulations.

In addition, we are members of the PhiQus Inria Project-Team (Inria Saclay – LIX – CPHT), an interdisciplinary team whose research spans a broad range of topics at the interface of quantum physics, algorithms, and theoretical aspects of quantum information. Although this does not mean we receive additional salaries, it does mean we have a broader set of colleagues with whom to discuss interesting problems.

The researchers listed below are the PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and long-term master students currently working with me on these topics.

Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Alessandro Santini

    Joined the group in November 2024, after a PhD in Tensor Networks and Quantum Information from SISSA. He works on the informational aspect of Neural Quantum States as well as on hybrid quantum algorithms, bridging classical and quantum machines.

  • Niccolò Baldelli

    Joined the group in May 2026, after a PhD in the Quantum Optics Theory group at ICFO under the supervision of Professor Maciej Lewenstein.

  • Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellows

    I’m looking for one (maybe two) postdocs starting in December 2025. Candidates with a strong experience in machine learning AND/OR numerical methods for electronic structure AND/OR Variational Monte Carlo will be given priority.

PhD Students

  • Adrian Kahn

    Joined the group in October 2023, Polytechnicien. With a strong taste for analytics, currently working on improving variational methods to simulate quantum dynamics.

  • Amedeo Shokry

    Joined the group in November 2023 after a M.Sc. in Physics and AI from La Sapienza University in Rome.

  • Antoine Misery

    He joined our group in October 2024, after a double Master from Ecole Polytechnique and ETH Zurich.

  • Nathan Moumique

    Nathan is a CIFRE PhD student between Ecole Polytechnique and Eviden, co-supervised by Thomas Ayral and me, with the help of Alessandro Santini.

Past Members

  • Evan Wonisch

    Evan is a PhD-track student at IP-Paris, who interns in the group. He is investigating neural network representation of fermionic systems with continuous degrees of freedom.

  • Luca Gravina

    PhD student from Vincenzo Savona’s group at EPFL.

  • Rajah Nutakki

    Rajah was a Postdoctoral researcher with us from 2024 to the end of 2025. After a PhD from TUM, during which he studied frustrated spin systems, he worked on applying NQS to the same problems.