Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
- Senior Software Engineer (01/2024 - present)
Google (Zurich, Switzerland) - Senior Research Scientist (05/2023 - 10/2023)
IBM Research (Zurich, Switzerland) - Staff Research Scientist (08/2022 - 04/2023)
IBM Research (Zurich, Switzerland) - Research Scientist (08/2019 - 07/2022)
IBM Research (Zurich, Switzerland) - Machine Learning Researcher (10/2018 - 06/2019)
BenevolentAI (London, United Kingdom) - Machine Learning Engineer (07/2018 - 09/2018)
BenevolentAI (London, United Kingdom)
Education
- PhD in Chemistry (2015 - 2018)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
PhD Program: Computational Science Zurich
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Reiher - MSc in Chemistry (2013-2015)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland - BSc in Chemistry (2010-2013)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Erasmus Exchange, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2012-2013) - High School Diploma (Matura) (2010)
Kollegium Heilig Kreuz, Fribourg, Switzerland
Languages
- French: Native language
- English: Full professional proficiency
- German: Full professional proficiency
- Italian: Limited professional proficiency
- Spanish: Limited professional proficiency
Publications
See list of publications here.
Patents
See my Google Scholar profile.
Awards and Distinctions
- 35 Innovators under 35 awarded by the MIT Technology Review, 2022
- Part of the team receiving the Sandmeyer award of the Swiss Chemical Society, 2022
- IBM Research Prize for Computer Modelling and Simulations in Chemistry, Biology and Material Science, 2018
- ETH Medal for an outstanding Master’s thesis, 2015
- Holder of a Binding scholarship, awarded by the Sophie und Karl Binding Foundation, 2013-2015.
- Participation in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), Waterloo, Canada, 2010
- Bronze medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), Tokyo, Japan, 2010
- Interdisciplinary Award of the Swiss Scientific Olympiads, 2010
- Swiss Scientific Olympiads: Chemistry (Rank 1), Physics (Rank 2), Informatics (Rank 3), Mathematics (Rank 15), 2010
- Award of the rector for the best result in total immersion, Kollegium Heilig Kreuz, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2010
- “Louis Wantz” Award for the best result in natural sciences, Kollegium Heilig Kreuz, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2010
Other
- Member of the Science of Synthesis Early Career Advisory Board, 01/2022-12/2023
- Member of the board of the Swiss Chemistry Olympiad, 2010-2018
- Member of the board of the Association of the Swiss Scientific Olympiads, 2015-2017
- Member of the Swiss Study Foundation, 2011-2018