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X. Gonze, group leader. Full-time Professor at UCLouvain since 2004. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIng\u00e9nieur civil physicien\u201d in 1984, \u201cLicence en physique\u201d in 1985, PhD thesis in Applied Physics in May 1990, all at UCLouvain. Stay at Cornell University as visiting scientist (1990-1992). Charg\u00e9 de recherche at the FRS-FNRS in 1992, then professor at UCLouvain 2004. One year stay at the Fritz-Haber Institute der Max-Planck Gesellshaft, Berlin Germany, in 1998-1999 (Humboldt research fellowship). In the period April 2019 – March 2022, X. Gonze joined Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Moscow) as visiting professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientific output and bibliometry (July 2023): 229 publications in international journals, including Nature, Science, Advanced Materials, Nanoletters, Physical Review Letters\u2026 ; Scopus h-index 72, with over 27000 citations; Google scholar h-index=83, with over 36000 citations; 42 grants and research contracts; 127 personal invited oral communications in scientific meetings; 54 invited seminars in universities and research labs outside the host institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientific merits recognized, among others, by election as fellow of the American Physical Society (2007), quinquennal prize of the FRS-FNRS in applied exact sciences, delivered by his majesty the king Albert II (2010),  and election at the Royal Academy of Belgium (2011). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Group picture taken at the occasion of Julien Bouquiaux, Maryam Azizi and Rashmi Routaray\u2019s farewell, 14 November 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Group picture taken at the occasion of Bogdan Guster\u2019s farewell, 28 October 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

PhD students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\nVasilii Vasilchenko<\/a>\n<\/td>\n\n		\n
\nLe Shu<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/font>\n\n\n\n

Postdocs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\nSamare Rostami<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/font>\n\n\n\n

Visiting professor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\nZhongfei Xu<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/font>\n\n\n\n

Technical staff (ABINIT project)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\nJean-Michel Beuken<\/a>\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nMatteo Giantomassi<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/font>\n\n\n\n

Former PhD Students (only the last 20 years)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\nGuillermo Avendano Franco\n<\/td>\n\n		\n
\nPaul Boulanger\n<\/td>\n\n		\n
\nYannick Gillet\n<\/td>\n\n		\n
\nMatteo Giantomassi<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n
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\nVishank Kumar\n<\/td>\n\n\n		\n
\nAnna Miglio\n<\/td>\n\n		\n
\nSamuel Ponc\u00e9\n<\/td>\n\n		\n
\nLisa Siciliani\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n
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\nBenoit Van Troeye\n<\/td>\n\n		\n
\nDavid Waroquiers\n\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nJulien Bouquiaux\n<\/td>\n\n		\n
\nAlexandre Cloots\n<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n
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\nRashmi Ranjan Routaray\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/font>\n\n\n\n

Former postdocs (only the last 20 years)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\nBruno Bertrand\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nFabiana Da Pieve\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nAdam Fekete\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nMatteo Giantomassi<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nBogdan Guster\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nMyrta Gruening\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nGeoffroy Hautier\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nYongchao Jia\n
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\nJonathan Laflamme\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nSt\u00e9phane Le Roux\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nAnna Miglio\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nRiad Shaltaf\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>
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\nMartin Stankovski\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nDavid Waroquiers\n<\/td>\n		\n
\nMaryam Azizi\n<\/td>\n<\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/font>\n\n\n\n

Former Visiting scientists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\nGabriel Antonius\n
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\nTheo Cavignac\n
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\nXiyue Cheng\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/font>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X. Gonze, group leader. Full-time Professor at UCLouvain since 2004. \u201cIng\u00e9nieur civil physicien\u201d in 1984, \u201cLicence en physique\u201d in 1985, PhD thesis in Applied Physics in May 1990, all at UCLouvain. Stay at Cornell University as visiting scientist (1990-1992). Charg\u00e9 … Continuer la lecture →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-303","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/xavier.gonze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/xavier.gonze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/xavier.gonze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/xavier.gonze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/xavier.gonze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/xavier.gonze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4073,"href":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/xavier.gonze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/xavier.gonze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}