Who we are

Principal Investigator

Gaël Grissonnanche

Professor

Gaël received a PhD in physics from the University of Sherbrooke in Québec on unconventional superconductors. Then, he took a postdoc position at Cornell University in the USA to learn nanofabricating techniques applied to quantum materials. In July 2023, he started the Quantum Materials in Extreme Conditions laboratory at École Polytechnique.

Research Engineer

Adrien Gourgout

PhD

Adrien received a PhD in physics from the CEA in Grenoble, France, on ferromagnetic superconductors. Then, he took a postdoc position at University of Sherbrooke in Québec and at ESPCI in France before joining the Quantum Materials in Extreme Conditions laboratory at École Polytechnique.

Postdoc

Emma Campillo (January 2025 - )

PhD

Emma received her PhD from Lund University in Sweden in 2022. She joined the group to study the origin of the thermal Hall effect of phonons.

PhD student

Juan Santana Gonzalez (April 2024 - )

MSc

Juan received his MSc in condensed matter physics from the Université Paris Cité in 2023. He joined the group to study the origin of strange metals and the Planckian limit in unconventional superconductors.

Master student

Charles Iorio-Duval (September 2024 - )

École Polytechnique / Université de Sherbrooke

Charles is a co-supervised master student between Université de Sherbrooke and École Polytechnique, he studies the origin of strange metals in electron-doped cuprates.

Master student

Saleh Shamloo Ahmadi (September 2024 - )

École Polytechnique

Saleh joined the group to develop a new framework to model transport in strange metals.

Master student

Süreyya Kaykusuz (September 2024 - )

École Polytechnique

Süreyya joined the group to study the fermionic quasiparticles of quantum spin liquids materials with thermal transport.

Alumni

Master student

Pierre-Eloi Paret (September 2024 to March 2025)

ENSTA

Pierre-Eloi worked on building a thermal conductivity mount for our dilution refrigerator to probe novel states in quantum materials

Master student

Matéo Rivera (September 2024 to March 2025)

École Polytechnique

Matéo worked on the analysis optical conductivity in magnetic field using Boltzmann transport theory in order to probe signatures of quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors

Bachelor Student

Rémi Nuttens (September 2024 to May 2025)

École Polytechnique

Rémi worked on building a thermal conductivity mount for our helium 3 refrigerator to explore the physics of superconducting nickelates

Bachelor Student

Aliénor Robin (September 2024 to May 2025)

École Polytechnique

Aliénor worked on building a thermal conductivity mount for our helium 3 refrigerator to explore the physics of superconducting nickelates

Bachelor Student

Amine Saadi (September 2024 to May 2025)

École Polytechnique

Amine worked on building a thermal conductivity mount for our helium 3 refrigerator to explore the physics of superconducting nickelates

Intern Bachelor Student

Florence Perreault (January 2025 to April 2025)

Université de Sherbrooke

Florence was a bachelor student at Université de Sherbrooke in Québec. Her 3-month internship in the group focused on the physics of superconducting nickelates.

Intern Bachelor Student

Étienne Beauchesne-Blanchet (May 2024 to August 2024)

Université de Montréal

Étienne was a bachelor student at Université de Montréal in Québec. His 3-month internship in the group focuses on the strange metal physics of superconducting nickelates.