{"id":49,"date":"2018-09-25T08:53:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T08:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:37:30","slug":"members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/home\/members\/","title":{"rendered":"Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

Group leader<\/h3>\n

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Annica Black-Schaffer<\/a><\/strong>
\nProfessor
\nPh.D. Stanford University, U.S.A.
\nCV<\/a><\/p>\n

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Senior researchers<\/h3>\n

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Patric Holmvall<\/a><\/strong>
\nPh.D. Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n

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Postdoctoral researchers<\/h3>\n

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Thomas Bernat<\/a><\/strong>
\nPh.D. Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alps, France<\/p>\n

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Ankita Bhattacharya<\/a><\/strong>
\nPh.D. TU Dresden, Germany<\/p>\n

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Arnob Kumar Ghosh<\/a><\/strong>
\nPh.D. Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
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Yow-Ming (Robin) Hu<\/strong><\/a>
\nPh.D. Australian National Unviersity, Australia<\/p>\n

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Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen<\/strong><\/a>
\nPh.D. Aalto University, Finland<\/p>\n

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Aksel Kobia\u0142ka<\/strong><\/a>
\nPh.D. Marie Curie-Sk\u0142odowska University, Lublin, Poland<\/p>\n

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Quentin Marsal<\/a><\/strong>
\nPh.D. Institut N\u00e9el – CNRS, Grenoble, France<\/p>\n

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Pramodh Senarath Yapa<\/strong><\/a>
\nPh.D. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
\nSupported by a NSERC Fellowship (Canada)
\nWebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ph.D. students<\/h3>\n

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Lucas Casa<\/strong><\/a>
\nM.Sc. University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/p>\n

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\"\"Florian Kayatz<\/strong><\/a>
\nM.Sc. University of Konstanz, Germany<\/p>\n

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\"\"Victor Maloisel<\/strong>
\nM.Sc. KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
\nIndustrial Ph.D. student, main supervisor: Niklas Wahlstr\u00f6m, IT<\/p>\n

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\"\"Suhas Nahas<\/a><\/strong>
\nM.Sc. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India<\/p>\n

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\"\"Jannes van Poppelen<\/a><\/strong>
\nM.Sc. Uppsala University, Sweden<\/p>\n

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Andreas Theiler<\/strong><\/a>
\nM.Sc. Graz University of Technology, Austria<\/p>\n

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Sushanth Varada<\/strong><\/a>
\nM.Sc. KU Leuven, Belgium and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
\nWebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

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Former postdocs and Ph.D. students<\/h3>\n

Florian Simon, postdoc 2025-2026 \u2192 Postdoc, TU Munich, Germany<\/p>\n

Rodrigo Arouca, postdoc 2021-2025 \u2192 Faculty member, Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/p>\n

Debmalya Chakraborty, postdoc 2019-2023 \u2192 Faculty member, IISER Mohali, India<\/p>\n

Tanay Nag, postdoc 2022-2023 \u2192 Faculty member, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India<\/p>\n

Tomas L\u00f6thman, Ph.D. student 2014-2022\u00a0\u2192 Comsol software developer, Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n

Iman Mahyaeh, postdoc 2020-2022 \u2192 Data scientist, Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n

Jorge Cayao, postdoc 2016-2021\u00a0\u2192 Senior researcher with a Swedish Research Council Starting Grant, Uppsala University, Sweden<\/p>\n

Paramita Dutta, postdoc 2018-2021\u00a0\u2192 Faculty member, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, India<\/p>\n

Oladunyoje Awoga, Ph.D. student 2015-2021 \u2192 Postdoc, Lund University, Sweden<\/p>\n

Fariborz Parhizgar, postdoc 2017-2021\u00a0\u2192 Data scientist, Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n

Johann Schmidt, Ph.D. student 2015-2020 \u2192 Scientific project officer, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n

Christopher Triola, postdoc 2017-2019 \u2192 Permanent staff scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A.<\/p>\n

Mahdi Mashkoori, postdoc 2015-2019 \u2192 Faculty member, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran<\/p>\n

Adrien Bouhon, postdoc 2014-2018\u00a0\u2192 \u00a0Senior researcher with a Swedish Research Council Starting Grant, Nordita, Sweden<\/p>\n

Dushko Kuzmanovski, postdoc 2014-2017\u00a0\u2192 Postdoc, Uppsala University and Nordita, Sweden<\/p>\n

Lucia Komendova, postdoc 2014-2017\u00a0\u2192 Software developer, Belgium<\/p>\n

Kristofer Bj\u00f6rnson, Ph.D. student 2012-2016\u00a0\u2192 Postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
\nAwarded the Bjurzon prize for best Ph.D. thesis in Science and Technology at UU, 2017<\/p>\n

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Master and project students<\/h3>\n

Tara af Forselles, Master thesis student, 2026<\/p>\n

Silas Michael Batista Guedes, exchange Master student from University of \u00a0S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, 2026<\/p>\n

Anna Tschesche, project and Master thesis student, 2025-2026<\/p>\n

Fabio d’Ortoli-Galerneau, exchange Master student from \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris, France, 2025<\/p>\n

Viktor Fril\u00e9n, project and Master thesis student, 2024-2025 \u2192 Ph.D.student, University of Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n

Minna Palmgren Thun, project and Master thesis student, 2024-2025<\/p>\n

Tjark Sievers, exchange Master thesis student from University of Hamburg, Germany, 2024<\/p>\n

Leen Mys, exchange Master thesis student from KU Leuven, Belgium, 2024 \u2192 Ph.D.student, Vrjie Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n

Lauro Braz, exchange Master student from\u00a0University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, 2022-2023 \u2192\u00a0Ph.D.student, University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/p>\n

Anton Gregefalk, project student, 2022<\/p>\n

Anna Sandberg, project student and Master thesis student, 2022 \u2192 Ph.D.student, Stockholm University, Sweden
\nAwarded the Michio Kitahara Stipend in Theoretical Physics to the best master student at Uppsala University, 2022<\/p>\n

Jacob Westholm, Master thesis student, 2020<\/p>\n

Lucas Casa,\u00a0exchange Master student from\u00a0University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, 2020 \u2192 Ph.D.student, Uppsala University<\/p>\n

Kaue Rodrigues Alves, exchange Master student from\u00a0University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, 2019 \u2192 Ph.D.student, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain<\/p>\n

Yann Gaucher, exchange Master student from \u00c9cole Polytechnique, France, 2019 \u2192 Ph.D.student, LSCE, CEA, France<\/p>\n

Dimitrios Petropoulos, project student, 2019<\/p>\n

Souvanik Hui, project student, 2018<\/p>\n

Athanasios Tsintzis, Master thesis student, 2018\u00a0\u2192 Ph.D. student, Lund University, Sweden<\/p>\n

Umberto Borla, Master student, 2017\u00a0\u2192 Ph.D. student, Technical University of Munich, Germany<\/p>\n

Andreas Theiler, Master thesis student, 2017\u00a0\u2192 Ph.D. student, Uppsala University<\/p>\n

Raphael Teixeira, exchange Master student from University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, 2016 \u2192 Ph.D. student,\u00a0University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/p>\n

Anders Eriksson, project student, 2016<\/p>\n

Tomas L\u00f6thman, Master thesis student, 2013\u00a0\u2192 Ph.D. student, Uppsala University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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