Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience

Group leader: Stephan Roche

Overview

Main research lines

Theoretical research on quantum transport phenomena in topological quantum matter (topological insulators, Weyl semimetals)
Spin dynamics and entanglement properties in Dirac matter (graphene, two-dimensional materials) and van der Waals heterostructures
Molecular dynamics, thermal transport properties and thermoelectricity in nanomaterials of interest for microelectronics (amorphous Graphene and boron nitride)
Predictive modelling and multiscale numerical simulation of complex nanomaterials and quantum nanodevices

Group leader

Roche, Stephan

ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader

Prof. Stephan Roche is a theoretician with more than 25 years’ experience in the study of transport theory in low-dimensional systems, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, semiconducting nanowires, organic materials and topological insulators.

He has published more than 200 papers in journals such as the Review of Modern Physics, Nature Physics, Nano Letters and Physical Review Letters and he is the co-author of the book titled “Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials: From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport” (Cambridge University Press, 2020-second edition). He received the qualification to supervise PhD students from the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 2004, and since then he has supervised more than ten PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral researchers in France, Germany and Spain. In 2009 Prof. Roche was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander Von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and, since 2011, he has been actively involved in the European Graphene Flagship project as deputy leader of the Spintronics Work Package (WP). He is serving as leader of this WP since April 2020 and will continue until March 202. He is also Division Leader of the Graphene Flagship.