Biography

Lorenzo Gigli was awarded the PhD cum laude in Condensed Matter Physics at the International School of Advanced Studies (ISAS-SISSA) in Trieste, Italy. During his PhD he worked on the physics of nanofriction, where he made extensive use of Molecular Dynamics to study the mechanisms of dissipation in experimentally tested nanoscale interfaces, particularly in the form of graphene-based materials on metallic substrates. In this field, he participated to a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC). He joined the COSMO laboratory at EPFL in May 2020 and since then he is working on applications of atomistic Machine Learning for ferroelectrics, within an industry collaboration with Samsung Research, and materials for energy storage.