The Argonauts (Team)
(January 2026) From left to right: Antimo, Mitra, Surajiit, Ransell, Paul, Nicolas, Riccardo, Christian, Roberta, Nataliia, Anumita.
(July 2025) 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
Anumita Bose
Postdoc at SISSA
2D magnetic materials
Surajit Manna
PhD student in Condensed Matter
(III year) SISSA
Amorphous topological insulators
Christian Lloer Lemit
PhD student in Condensed Matter
(III year) SISSA
Temperature & correlations in topological insulators
Riccardo Dal Molin
PhD student in Condensed Matter
(III year) SISSA
Machine learning & electronic structure methods
Nicolas Baù
PhD student in Physics
(end of III year) University of Trieste
Topological superconductors
Mitra Dowlatabadi
PhD student in Physics
(end of III year) University of Trieste
Topological superconductors
Hiroki Nishizawa
Visiting PhD student
Tohoku University, Japan
Automated training of interatomic potentials
Alumni
Here, we provide a list of former group members along with their current positions ("now") or the roles they assumed immediately after leaving the lab ("->"). - Roberta Favata (MSc thesis, Nov 2021 - Oct 2022, PhD Nov 2022 - April 2026, UniTS), now postdoc at EPFL, Switzerland, in the group of Giuseppe Carleo
- Ransell D'Souza (postdoc at SISSA November 2024 - September 2026), now Academy Research Fellow at Aalto University, Finland
- Nataliia Manko (postdoc at UniTS 2024 - 2025, postdoc at SISSA April 2025 - April 2026), now Software Developer at Cybertec - Zucchetti, Trieste
- Austin Zadoks (PhD at EPFL, Fall 2021 - July 2025), now postdoc at PSI, Switzerland
- Paul Herbert (ENS Paris-Saclay interships, M1 April 2025 - July 2025, M2 October 2025 - June 2026)
- 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 at SISSA
- Nicolas Baù (MSc thesis, Nov 2022 - Sep 2023), now Physics PhD student at UniTS
- Francesca Cucchiaro (BSc thesis, May 2022 - Dec 2022) -> Physics MSc student at UniTS
- Matteo D'Alessio (MSc thesis, Oct 2021 - Sep 2022) -> PhD student at UniMORE
- Riccardo Dal Molin (BSc thesis, Nov 2021 - May 2022), now PhD student at SISSA