Stephan Roche

Prof. Stephan Roche is ICREA Research Professor since 2009, head of “Theoretical & computational Nanoscience Group” at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Barcelona (Spain), www.icn2.cat. He is a theoretical physicist, expert in two-dimensional materials physics, topological matter and disordered materials, as well as expert of charge (quantum) transport in condensed matter, spin physics, large-scale quantum simulations and device modelling. He pioneered and is leading the development of linear scaling transport approaches, enabling unrivalled simulations of large-scale (disordered) models (www.lsquant.org), which are now efficiently connected with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools providing unprecedented ab-initio accuracy of properties simulation in trillion atoms scale models. S. Roche is a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel awardee (Alexander Von-Humboldt Foundation, Germany) and has worked as PhD, postdoc, assistant professor, research staff and visiting researchers at many institutions such as at French CNRS and CEA, University of Valladolid (Spain), Donostia International Physics Center (San Sebastian, Spain), University of TU-Dresden (Germany), National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo and Tohoku University (Japan). He has collaborated and be funded by large companies such as NEC (Japan) and Samsung (South Korea).