I’m Anna Romani, I’m an Italian student from Milan (Italy). I graduated with a bachelor in Chemistry at the University of Pavia (Italy), I moved to Bordeaux (France) for a Master in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics and currently I’m a PhD in the Physics department of Queen’s University Belfast (UK). I’m studying pump-probe simulation on layered material by real-time simulation on non-equilibrium systems hamiltonian, modeled by Many-body Perturbation Theory.

My name is Daniel Santos Stone, and I’m Spanish/South African, although I grew up in Belgium. I did my integrated master’s in pure chemistry at the University of Strathclyde (UK), with a focus on computational chemistry. Currently I’m a PhD student at Aix-Marseille University/CNRS, working on the ultrafast dynamics of electrons, holes, and excitons of excited 2D materials in the presence of electron-phonon coupling, using Boltzmann transport and many-body perturbation theory.

My research interests include Green’s function theory, Quantum Monte Carlo, optical properties of materials, fermionic many-body systems, non-equilibrium phenomena, electronic structure, condensed matter field theory, statistical field theory, and numerical implementations thereof.

I am from Colombia, but I got my master’s degree in physics in Mexico, at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), with a thesis project on radiation-matter interaction in photorefractive crystals. Currently, I am working on a project focused on employing Many body techniques to address the ultrafast dynamics of excitons, carriers and phonons in photo-excited 2D materials, at the University Tor Vergata Roma (Italy).

I am from Switzerland and completed my Bachelor and Master degrees in Interdisciplinary Sciences at ETH in Zurich. Currently, I am a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg. We investigate the electronic and nuclear dynamics of different materials upon excitation by light.

Hola! I’m Karina, and I was born in Bolivia. Eventually, I moved to Spain and pursued a degree in Chemistry at the Universidad de Sevilla, followed by a Master’s in Materials Science. Currently, I’m doing my PhD at the Università degli Studi di Milano, focusing on characterizing point defects in 2D materials with electro and magneto-optical quantum effects using ab initio methods that account for non-equilibrium phenomena.

I’m from China, and got my Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Condensed Matter Physics at Nankai University, focusing on excited states research using ab initio calculation. Now I am working on University of Valencia (Spain).

My name is Petru Milev, I was born and raised in the Republic of Moldova. I have a bachelor degree in chemistry from University of Bucharest, and a master degree in chemical nanoengineering from Aix-Marseille University. In the TIMES network I am working with Dr. Davide Sangalli from Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Rome, Italy. Our project will formulate the Ehrenfest dynamics to describe the exciton-ion coupling and simulate time-resolved angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy in 2D materials.

Subhojit is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Palermo (UNIPA) as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network TIMES, under the supervision of Prof. Umberto De Giovanni (UNIPA) and co-supervision of Dr. Hannes Huebener (MPSD, Hamburg). Prior to joining UNIPA, he earned a dual BS-MS degree in Physics from IISER Bhopal, India, and completed his Master’s thesis at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. His research focuses on developing a method to phenomenologically describe fast decoherence processes within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) for solids, using Octopus.

I come from Nantong China and studied Physics of Matter at University of Toulouse. My project in the network focuses on developing formalisms and numerical methods to describe the time-dependent ionic and electronic response of molecules or clusters under intense femtosecond laser fields. This work will rely on the open-source TDDFT-MD code ‘QDD’ (Quantum Dissipative Dynamics).

I earned my BSc in Physics from the University of Iceland in 2021 and my MSc in Computational Physics from Stockholm University in 2023. During my time in Stockholm, I worked with the Quantum Chemical Molecular Simulations group, using ab initio molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the structural and electronic properties of perovskite materials for solar cell applications. Currently, I am conducting research at the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Valencia, where I focus on computational approaches to studying magnons in magnetic materials, with a particular emphasis on two-dimensional systems.

I come from Spain where I studied Chemistry and a master in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling at the University of Salamanca. During my master’s thesis, I used TDDFT to implement a new methodology for realistic modeling of High-Harmonic Generation in 2D materials. I am currently working at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel (Germany), where I focus on the development of ab-initio theory and computational methods of electron-phonon interaction and many-body effects in materials driven out of equilibrium.