The following is the list of User Lab projects running in the current allocation period.
| Principal Investigator | Organization | Scientific Field | Title | System |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constantia Alexandrou | University of Cyrpus & Cyprus Institute | Physics - LQCD | Transition Amplitudes for the ∆ Resonance - Towards a New Frontier within Lattice QCD | Alps |
| Justin Ball | EPFL | Physics - Plasma Physics | A Gyrokinetic Study of Intrinsic Rotation in the TCV and MAST-U Tokamaks | Alps |
| Olivier Bignucolo | University of Lausanne | Life Science - Molecular Biophysics | Computational Analysis of the Scleraxis-DKK3 Binding | Alps |
| Abhinav Bhatele | University of Maryland | Computer Science - Computer Science | Training a Large Scale Model for Code Retrieval | Alps |
| Mauro Bernardini | University of Zurich | Physics - Astrophysics & Cosmology | Constraining the Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei in Massive Galaxies with Cosmological FIRE Simulations and Machine Learning | LUMI-C |
| Ruben Cabezon | University of Basel | Physics - Astrophysics & Cosmology | Sub-Stellar Engulfment as a Li-Enrichment Method | Alps |
| Sergey Churakov | PSI | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Pore Scale Reactive Transport Modelling of Iron-Cement Interaction | Alps |
| Sergey Churakov | PSI | Chemistry & Materials - Chemical Sciences | Fe Uptake into Cement Hydrate Phases, Structural and Thermodynamic Modelling | Alps |
| Michael Coates | University of Zurich | Chemistry & Materials - Chemical Sciences | Attosecond Coupled Electronic-Nuclear Dynamics of Aqueous Systems Studied by Real-Time DFT | Alps |
| Matteo Di Carlo | CERN | Physics - LQCD | Neutral D-Meson Mixing from Lattice QCD | Alps |
| Michelle Ernst | University of Bern | Earth & Environmental Science - Geoscience | Electron Transfer at Clay Mineral–Water Interfaces | Alps |
| Marie-Estelle Demory | WYSS-AC | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | Land Restoration Pathways in the Tropics and their Contribution to Climate Resilience | Alps |
| Marion Farcy | EPFL | Physics - Astrophysics & Cosmology | The Impact of Radiation and Winds from Intermediate-Mass Black Holes on their Growth and their Low-Mass Host Galaxies | Alps |
| Pol Febrer | EPFL | Chemistry & Materials - Nanoscience | Pioneering Quantum Electronic Transport Simulations in Realistic Environments with State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Tools | Alps |
| Andreas Fichtner | ETH Zurich | Earth & Environmental Science - Geoscience | REVEAL-15 | Alps |
| Thomas Froelicher | University of Bern | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Under Global Warming Stabilization and Overshoot Scenarios (Ocean-CDR) | Alps |
| Andreas Fuster | EPFL | Economics | Understanding Expectation Formation Processes in Finance through Textual Data | Alps |
| Tim Harris | ETH Zurich | Physics - LQCD | Tuning QCD+QED Simulations with Light Quarks | Alps |
| David Harvey | EPFL | Physics - Astrophysics & Cosmology | Velocity Dependent Self-Interacting Dark Matter as a Unified Solution to Dark Matter | Alps |
| Max Hansen | University of Edinburgh | Physics - LQCD | Hadronic D Decays from Lattice QCD | Alps |
| Stefan Goedecker | University of Basel | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Quantum-Mechanics-Informed Machine Learning for Modeling and Designing Heterogeneous Catalysts | Alps |
| Stefan Goedecker | University of Basel | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Using Machine Learned Potential Energy Surfaces to Study the Structure and Dynamics of Materials | LUMI-C |
| Francesco Gervasio | University of Geneva | Life Science - Molecular Biophysics | Understanding the Role of the Bcl-2 Protein Family in the Regulation of Apoptosis | Alps |
| Andrew Jackson | ETH Zurich | Earth & Environmental Science - Geoscience | Magnetic Field Generation on Moon and Mars — Precessional and Compositional Driving Mechanisms | Alps |
| Andrew Jackson | ETH Zurich | Earth & Environmental Science - Geoscience | Early-Earth Dynamos: Heterogeneous Boundary Conditions and Reversals in a Full Sphere Geometry | Alps |
| Andre Kahles | ETH Zurich | Life Science - Bioinformatics | Indexing the Sequences of Life | LUMI-C |
| Ilya Karlin | ETH Zurich | Mechanics & Engineering - Fluid Dynamics | Non-Ideal Computational Fluid Dynamics of Compressible Flows Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method | Alps |
| Stephan Kellenberger | University of Lausanne | Life Science - Neuroscience | Computational and Functional Analysis of the Open-Closed Transition of ASIC1a | Alps |
| Corina Keller | EMPA | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | Air Quality in Europe: Modeling the Impacts of Changes in Climate, Emissions and Land Use | Alps |
| Clarissa Kroll | ETH Zurich | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | The signature of model biases in small-scale turbulence imprinted on the large-scale circulation | Alps |
| Charlotte Laufkötter | University of Bern | Earth & Environmental Science - Geoscience | MOANA: Mechanistic Model Simulations of the Marine Biological Carbon Pump | LUMI-C |
| Michael Lehning | SLF | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | Climate Sensitivity of Snow in Antarctica Using Models of Different Complexity | Alps |
| Vittorio Limongelli | USI | Life Science - Bioinformatics | Deep Learning-Driven Residue Labeling for NMR: Ensemble-Based Chemical Shift Predictions to Unveil Protein Dynamics | Alps |
| Ulrike Lohmann | ETH Zurich | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | Understanding, Predicting and Mitigating Weather Extremes in a Changing Climate | Alps |
| Joaquim Loizu | EPFL | Physics - Plasma Physics | Simulations of Plasma Fluid Turbulence in the HSX Stellarator | LUMI-C |
| Sandra Luber | University of Zurich | Chemistry & Materials - Chemical Sciences | Degradation and Catalytic Mechanisms in Photoelectrochemical Devices for Hydrogen Production: Insight and Design via Forefront DFT-Enhanced Sampling Studies | Alps |
| Sandra Luber | University of Zurich | Chemistry & Materials - Chemical Sciences | Pushing the Frontiers of in Silico Design of Photoacids/Photobases | Alps |
| Mathieu Luisier | ETH Zurich | Chemistry & Materials - Nanoscience | Advanced Simulation of Ultra-scaled Nanowire Transistors in the GW Approximation | Alps |
| Mathieu Luisier | ETH Zurich | Chemistry & Materials - Nanoscience | Ab-initio Investigations of the Switching Behavior of HfO2- and Ge-based Memristors II | Alps |
| Ralf Mackenbach | EPFL | Physics - Plasma Physics | Gyrokinetic Database of the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (D-TCV): An Experiment-First Database for Modelling Turbulence and its Diagnostics | Alps |
| Semen Malamud | EPFL | Economics | Statistical and Numerical Analysis of High-Dimensional Models in Financial Economics | Alps |
| Cesare Malosso | EPFL | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | A Multi-Target Foundational Model for Materials Simulations | Alps |
| Nicola Marzari | EPFL | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Charting the Magnetic, Vibrational, and Thermomechanical Landscape of Materials | Alps |
| Matija Medvidovic | ETH Zurich | Chemistry & Materials - Condensed Matter Physics | Neural Network Approach to the Dynamics of Quantum Matter | Alps |
| Siddhartha Mishra | ETH Zurich | Mechanics & Engineering - Fluid Dynamics | Computational Discovery of Novel Statistical Laws for Three-Dimensional Incompressible Fluids | Alps |
| Marko Mladenovic | ETH Zurich | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Ab Initio Investigations of Point Defects and their Effect on the Electronic and Electro-Optical Properties of Barium Titanate (BTO) | Alps |
| Rebecca Mott | SLF | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | Advancing Glacier Microclimate Research: Employing the High-resolution Intermediate Complexity Model (HICAR) to Investigate Glacier Microclimates in a Changing Climate | Alps |
| Carlos Escamilla Osuna | Meteo Swiss | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | Machine Learning Weather Emulator on the Swiss Domain | Alps |
| Alfredo Pasquarello | EPFL | Chemistry & Materials - Condensed Matter Physics | Electronic-Structure Predictions from State-of-the-Art First Principles Calculations | Alps |
| Alfredo Pasquarello | EPFL | Chemistry & Materials - Condensed Matter Physics | Photocatalytic Mechanism for Energy Harvesting from Sunlight Investigated through Machine-Learning Accelerated Molecular Dynamics | Alps |
| Claudio Perego | SUPSI | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Modelling the Coupling of Supramolecular Polymers with Concentration Gradients | Alps |
| Luca Pesce | SUPSI | Chemistry & Materials - Chemical Sciences | Measuring Ag Exchange Rate within Stable Halide-Metal-Organic Grids | Alps |
| Simone Pezzuto | University of Trento | Life Science - Biomedical Engineering | Predict-AF - Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence Prediction Using Patient-Specific Models: Understanding the Roles of Sex Differences and Heart Failure | Alps |
| Carlo Antonio Pignedoli | EMPA | Chemistry & Materials - Nanoscience | Computational Insight into the Fabrication of 2D Carbon-Based Quantum Spin Systems | Alps |
| Sergio Pirozzoli | University of Rome 1 | Mechanics & Engineering - Fluid Dynamics | Numerical Investigations for Drag Reduction in Transonic Flight through Active Control of Turbulence | Alps |
| Daniela Polino | SUPSI | Chemistry & Materials - Chemical Sciences | Operando Modeling of Formaldehyde Formation in the Methanol-to-Olefins Process | Alps |
| Nikolaos Prasianakis | PSI | Mechanics & Engineering - Fluid Dynamics | Reactive Flow Modelling of CRUD Buildup within Nuclear Fuel Assemblies | Alps |
| Fernando Porte-Agel | EPFL | Mechanics & Engineering - Fluid Dynamics | Exploring Turbulence in Wind Farms Using Large-Eddy Simulation | Alps |
| Christophe Raible | University of Bern | Earth & Environmetal Science - Climate | Holocene Hydroclimate, Drought Dynamics and Environmental Changes Recorded in Multiple Archives from SW Asia – The Climate Modeling Part (MITRA-CliMo) | Alps |
| Christophe Raible | University of Bern | Earth & Environmetal Science - Climate | Climate Tipping Points: Uncertainty-Aware Quantification of Earth System Tipping Potential from Observations and Models and Assessment of Associated Climatic, Ecological, and Socioeconomic Impacts Using Regional Modelling (ClimTip-regmod) | Alps |
| Umberto Raucci | Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | Chemistry & Materials - Chemical Sciences | Unraveling the Role of Ru Cluster Dynamics in Ammonia Decomposition on Lithium Imide | Alps |
| Christian Reinhardt | University of Zurich | Physics - Astrophysics & Cosmology | The Giant Impact Origin of the Martian Moons revisited | Alps |
| Paolo Ricci | EPFL | Physics - Plasma Physics | Simulation of Detachment in Negative Triangularity Tokamak Configurations | Alps |
| Ursula Roethlisberger | EPFL | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Predicting Perovskite Solar Cell Performance Using First Principles Simulations and Kinetic Monte Carlo | Alps |
| Blanca Rodriguez | University of Oxford | Life Science - Biomedical Engineering | Multiscale Human Modelling and Simulation to Determine Heart Disease Mechanisms and Guide Risk Stratification and Treatment in Sex-Specific Models | Alps |
| Armando Romani | EPFL | Life Science - Neuroscience | Cellular and Network Mechanisms of Attention and Perception in Cortico-Thalamocortical Loops: A Biophysical In-Silico Study | Alps |
| Fernando Romero Lopez | University of Bern | Physics - LQCD | The Three-Hadron Frontier with Lattice QCD | Alps |
| Simone Romiti | University of Bern | Physics - LQCD | Lattice-QCD Calculation of the η, η′ → γ∗γ∗ Transition form Factors and the Pseudoscalar Meson Pole Contributions to the (g − 2)μ | LUMI-G |
| Cesare Roncaglia | EMPA | Chemistry & Materials - Condensed Matter Physics | Ab-initio Screening of Thermodynamic Stability of High-Entropy MAX Phases | Alps |
| Sonia Seneviratne | ETH Zurich | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | Land-Climate Dynamics and Extremes in a Changing Climate | Alps |
| Nicola Spaldin | ETH Zurich | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Order Hidden | Alps |
| Jens Terhaar | University of Bern | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | Quantifying the impact of carbon and nutrients from rivers and coastal erosion in the Arctic Ocean biogeochemistry | Alps |
| Iurii Timrov | EPFL | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Empowering Switzerland’s Green Energy Transition through First-Principles Design of Novel Cathodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries | Alps |
| Hanna Tuerk | EPFL | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Using Long-Range Machine Learning to Prevent Degradation during the Production of Lithium Thiophosphate for Solid-State Batteries | Alps |
| Vladyslav Turlo | EMPA | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Heat and Mass Transport as well as Crystallization in LiCoO2 Thin Film Battery Cathode Material During Photonic Sintering | Alps |
| Ben Schuler | University of Zurich | Life Science - Molecular Biophysics | Resolving Complex Interactions and Dynamics within Multicomponent Biomolecular Condensates | Alps |
| Berend Smit | EPFL | Chemistry & Materials - Chemical Sciences | Deep Learning Potentials Training of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Carbon Capture | Alps |
| Timofei Sukhodolov | PMOD/WRC | Earth & Environmental Science - Climate | Impacts of Natural Forcings on Climate and the Ozone Layer | LUMI-C |
| Harry Van Lenthe | ETH Zurich | Life Science - Biomedical Engineering | Development and Verification of Agent-Based Bone-Turnover Models for Clinical Applications | Alps |
| Stefano Vanni | University of Fribourg | Life Science - Molecular Biophysics | Uncovering the Lipid Scrambling Mechanism by XK-Related Proteins Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations | Alps |
| Daniel Vera Nieto | PSI | Life Science - Biomedical Engineering | Data-Driven X-ray super-resolution imaging for next-generation biology and materials science applications | Alps |
| Peter Vincent | Imperial Collefe London | Mechanics & Engineering - Fluid Dynamics | Development of an Automated Re-Meshing Capability in PyFR to Enable Efficient, Robust and Accurate Direct Numerical Simulations of Aero Engine Components | Alps |
| Oleg Yazyev | EPFL | Chemistry & Materials - Condensed Matter Physics | Simulations of Low-Dimensional Quantum Materials | Alps |
| Urs Wenger | University of Bern | Physics - LQCD | The Continuum Limit of the Hadronic Light-by-Light Scattering Contribution to the Muon Anomaly | Alps |
| Xuewei Zhang | EMPA | Chemistry & Materials - Materials Science | Systematic Characterization of Defective Amorphous Silica Surfaces for Adsorption and Catalytic Applications | Alps |
| Nuri Yazdani | ETHZ | Chemistry & Materials - Nanoscience | Neutron Transmutation Doping of Colloidal Quantum Dots | Alps |