People
Students
One of the most fulfilling parts of science is supervising and collaborating with brilliant young people. Here I show the ones with whom I do that now.
Alessio Martinez
Alessio is currently doing his master's thesis in the group of Prof. Cristiane Morais Smith at Utrecht University, and I am his co-supervisor. His thesis is about exploring the connections between thermodynamics and anomalies in topological systems.
Brenno Zanandrea
Brenno is currently a bachelor's student at the Military Engineering Institute (IME) and is doing a scientific initiation with me, during which he, together with Mateus, is learning about quantum simulators using photonic waveguides.
Mateus de Andrade
Mateus is currently a bachelor's student at the Military Engineering Institute (IME) and is doing a scientific initiation with me, during which he, together with Brenno, is learning about quantum simulators using photonic waveguides.
Collaborators
I have been lucky to work with, and learn from, many talented people during my career. Here I talk a bit about the people that I worked/interacted with.
Alumni
I have been lucky to work with many talented people during my career. Here I talk a bit about students that I supervised.
Minna Palmgren Thun
Leen did her master's thesis with Patric Holmvall and me in 2025 at Uppsala University. Her thesis was on the study of vortex skyrmions in chiral superconductors. Currently, she works at the Swedish Patent and Registration Office as a patent engineer.
Leen Mys
Leen did her master's thesis with me in 2024 while she was visiting Uppsala University for her Erasmus program. Her work was to investigate the Cooper problem close to exceptional points. Currently, she is a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Emiel Slootman
Emiel completed his master's degree at Utrecht University in 2023, with Cristiane Morais Smith as his supervisor and Lumen Eek and me as his daily supervisors. His thesis was about the properties of non-Hermitian photonics, and led to a Physical Review Research paper and a Physical Review B paper. Currently, he is a PhD student at Twente University.
Robert Cañellas Núñez
Robert did his master's thesis at Utrecht University with Prof. Cristiane Morais Smith and me as daily supervisor in 2022. His work was about spin-orbit coupling in fractals and resulted in a Nature Physics paper. Currently, he is doing his PhD at Radboud University.
Maria Alice Neves
Maria did her master's thesis with Lizardo Nunes and me in 2022 at São João Del Rei University. Her work was to model the influence of zinc impurities in high Tc cuprates .
Wies Uijttewaal
Wies completed her master's thesis at Utrecht University in 2022, with Cristiane Morais Smith as his supervisor and me as her daily supervisor. Her work was about using the Caldeira-Legget formalism applied to time crystals . Currently, she is an administrative assistant in an environmental company.
Maarten Droste
Maarten did his master's thesis at Utrecht University under the supervision of Cristiane Morais Smith and Paul Zegeling, and with me as daily supervisor in 2021 at Utrecht University. His thesis, made in the specialization in complex systems, was about using the Martin-Siggia-Rose formalism to Lotka-Volterra equations. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at Vrije Universitiet Amsterdam .
Luuke Goode
Luke did his bachelor thesis with Cristiane Morais Smith and I in 2020. His thesis was about superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene. Currently, he studies classical music in the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.
Marina Moesia
Marina did a research internship with Luca Moriconi at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with me as a daily supervisor. Her work was based on the study of hurricanes as vortex structures. She finished currently her bachelor in geophysics and acts on the field. She recently finished her first poetry book.