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| Lucio Andreani | | | | | Alfredo Pasquarello (grad student) |
| Jean-Philippe Ansermet | | | | | |
| Tagir Aushev | | | 2006 | 2010 | Olivier Schneider (post-doc) |
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| Edoardo Baldini | Condensed Matter Physics | Department of Chemistry | 2012 | 2017 | Majed Chergui (grad student) |
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| Jean Buttet | | | | | |
| Fabrizio Carbone | | | | | |
| Sara Celani | | | 2019 | 2023 | Lesya Shchutska (grad student) |
| Rose K Cersonsky | | Institute of Materials | 2019 | | Michele Ceriotti (post-doc) |
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| Romain Fleury | Wave physics and engineering | | | | |
| Seamus Holden | | | 2010 | 2014 | Suliana Manley (post-doc) |
| Dmitri A Ivanov | Condensed Matter Theory | | | | |
| Kailash Chandra Jena | | | 2011 | 2013 | Sylvie Roke (post-doc) |
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| Francis Lévy | | | | | |
| Ho Ling Li | Particle physics, computational neuroscience | | 2015 | 2017 | Wulfram Gerstner (post-doc) |
| Shiling Liang | stochastic thermodynamics, biophysics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics | | | | |
| Junqiu Liu | Integrated optics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, MEMS and microwave photonics | | | | Tobias J. Kippenberg (grad student) |
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| Andre Mercanzini | | | | | Philippe Renaud (grad student) |
| Frederic Mila | | | | | |
| Christophe Moser | Optical neural networks, imaging, volumetric 3D printing | | | | |
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| Tatsuya Nakada | | | | | |
| Marc B. Parlange | Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science Physics, Geophysics | | | | |
| Alfredo Pasquarello | | | | | |
| Andreas Pautz | | | | | |
| Lorenzo Pavesi | | | | 1990 | Franz-Karl Reinhart (grad student) |
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| Carlo Piermarocchi | General Physics, Optics Physics | Physics | 1994 | 1998 | Antonio Quattropani (grad student) |
| Demetri Psaltis | Optics | | | | |
| Xiaofeng Qian | electronic structure theory; computational materials science; first-principles nonlinear optics; topological materials; 2D materials | | 2008 | 2011 | Nicola Marzari (post-doc) |
| Antonio Quattropani | | | | | |
| Franz-Karl Reinhart | | | | | |
| Philippe Renaud | | | | | |
| Paolo Ricci | | Plasma Physics | 2010 | | Kyle B. Gustafson (collaborator) |
| Nabeel A. Riza | Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Optics Physics | | | | Demetri Psaltis (grad student) |
| David Roesel | | | 2018 | 2022 | Sylvie Roke (grad student) |
| Henrik M. Ronnow | Physics, Magnetism, Neutron Scattering | | | | |
| Tobias M. Schneider | | | | | |
| Olivier Schneider | | | | | |
| Tereza Schönfeldová | | | 2018 | 2022 | Sylvie Roke (grad student) |
| Lesya Shchutska | Particle physics | | 2008 | 2012 | Tatsuya Nakada (grad student) |
| Gabriele Sicuro | Disordered systems, random combinatorial optimization problems | | | | |
| Melody Swartz | Biomedical Engineering, General Biophysics | | | | |
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| Francis S. Troyon | Plasma Science and Fusion | | | | |
| Jiri Vanicek | Theoretical chemical physics | | | | |
| Ewold Verhagen | | | 2009 | 2012 | Tobias J. Kippenberg (post-doc) |
| Guillermo Villanueva | NEMS/MEMS for sensing | | | | |
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| Bruce Weaver | Physics, optics, electron microscopy | | | | |
| Jean-Pierre Wolf | | | | 1987 | Ludger Wöste (grad student) |
| Alexander Wolfertz | Fast Neutron Detection, Spent Nuclear Fuel, Neutron Imaging | Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour | 2018 | 2022 | Andreas Pautz (grad student) |
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