The Argonauts (Team)

Group photo July 2025

(July 2025) From left to right: Mitra, Ransell, Surajiit, Roberta, Nicolas, Antimo, Nataliia, Riccardo, Eleonora, Anumita

Previous group photo (April 2024): from left to right: Mitra, Roberta, Antimo, Davide, Nicolas, Nataliia, Eleonora.

Antimo Marrazzo

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTDb)
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
SISSA

Ransell D'Souza

Postdoc at SISSA
Machine learning & electronic structure methods

Anumita Bose

Postdoc at SISSA
2D magnetic materials

Nataliia Manko

Postdoc at SISSA
Automation and high-throughput computing

Davide Bidoggia

Postdoc at University of Trieste
(joint with Prof. Maria Peressi)
Neural-network interatomic potentials,
automation, high-throughput
and 2D materials

Oscar Samuel Cajahuaringa Macollunco

Postdoc at University of Trieste
(joint with Prof. Maria Peressi)
Air drag and gas-surface interactions

Surajit Manna

PhD student in Condensed Matter
(I year) SISSA
Amorphous topological insulators

Christian Lloer Lemit

PhD student in Condensed Matter
(I year) SISSA
Temperature effects in topological insulators

Riccardo Dal Molin

PhD student in Condensed Matter
(I year) SISSA
Machine learning & electronic structure methods

Nicolas Baù

PhD student in Physics
(II year) University of Trieste
Topological superconductors

Mitra Dowlatabadi

PhD student in Physics
(II year) University of Trieste
Topological superconductors

Roberta Favata

PhD student in Physics
(IV year) University of Trieste
(joint with Prof. Federico Becca)
Disordered & strongly-correlated
topological insulators

Paul Herbert

MSc Internship (starting October 2025)
ENS Paris-Saclay
Superconductivity in topological materials

 Alumni

  Here, we provide a list of former group members along with their current positions or the roles they assumed immediately after leaving the lab.
  - Austin Zadoks (PhD at EPFL, Fall 2021 - July 2025), now postdoc at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
  - Paul Herbert (ENS Paris-Saclay intership, April 2025 - July 2025)
  - Davide Bidoggia (postdoc at UniTS, 2022 - July 2025), now postdoc at UniTS and Software Developer at Materys
  - Eleonora Lamma (MSc thesis, Nov 2023 - Sep 2024), now PhD student in Theory and Simulation of Condensed Matter at SISSA
  - Nicolas Baù (MSc thesis, Nov 2022 - Sep 2023), now Physics PhD student at University of Trieste
  - Francesca Cucchiaro (BSc thesis, May 2022 - Dec 2022) -> Physics MSc student at University of Trieste
  - Roberta Favata (MSc thesis, Nov 2021 - Oct 2022), now Physics PhD student at University of Trieste
  - Matteo D'Alessio (MSc thesis, Oct 2021 - Sep 2022), now PhD student at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  - Riccardo Dal Molin (BSc thesis, Nov 2021 - May 2022), now PhD student in Theory and Simulation of Condensed Matter at SISSA