Michele Ceriotti
Professor at EPFL
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMichele Ceriotti is a professor of computational materials science at EPFL with 14 years of experience bridging atomistic modelling, statistical mechanics and machine-learning methods. His career includes postdoctoral work at Oxford and a PhD from ETH Zurich, and he has progressed through EPFL from Assistant to Associate Professor to full Professor, leading research on nuclear quantum effects, path-integral techniques and data-driven potentials. He contributes to open-source scientific software—most notably improving the i-PI interface and USER-MISC package in the widely used LAMMPS molecular dynamics code—bringing practical optimizations to socket handling, neighbor lists and multi-engine integration. Michele combines deep theoretical insight with hands-on software engineering, making his group’s methods reproducible and production-ready for complex materials and biomolecular simulations. Based in Lausanne, he is as comfortable publishing new algorithms as he is adapting legacy codes to modern workflows.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Materials Science, MS, Materials Science at University of Milan - Bicocca
Github Skills (12)
simulations10
lammps10
simulation10
c-language10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
physics10
cprogramming-language10
molecular-simulation10
simulator10
nonlinear-dynamics10
socket7
mpi6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lammps/lammps
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
Public development project of the LAMMPS MD software package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Michele primarily contributed to the USER-MISC package within the LAMMPS MD software, fixing bugs, and improving its integration with i-PI, a separate force engine. Their changes involved modifications to files related to the fix_ipi and fix_gle features, which required adjusting box dimensions and updating neighbor lists. The user also addressed issues related to socket handling and improved the overall functionality of the i-PI interface, including some optimizations in its data exchange.
lammpsmolecular-dynamicssimulationkokkos
lab-cosmo/sampling-tutorial
Jul 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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