Prof. Stephan Roche is ICREA Research Professor since 2009, head of “Theoretical & computational Nanoscience Group” at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Barcelona (Spain), www.icn2.cat. He is a theoretical physicist, expert in two-dimensional materials physics, topological matter and disordered materials, as well as expert of charge (quantum) transport in condensed matter, spin physics, large-scale quantum simulations and device modelling. He pioneered and is leading the development of linear scaling transport approaches, enabling unrivalled simulations of large-scale (disordered) models (www.lsquant.org), which are now efficiently connected with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools providing unprecedented ab-initio accuracy of properties simulation in trillion atoms scale models. S. Roche is a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel awardee (Alexander Von-Humboldt Foundation, Germany) and has worked as PhD, postdoc, assistant professor, research staff and visiting researchers at many institutions such as at French CNRS and CEA, University of Valladolid (Spain), Donostia International Physics Center (San Sebastian, Spain), University of TU-Dresden (Germany), National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo and Tohoku University (Japan). He has collaborated and be funded by large companies such as NEC (Japan) and Samsung (South Korea).

S. Roche has co-authored more than 300 journal papers (WoS), including Rev. Mod. Physics, as well as more than 40 publications in Physical Review Letters & Nano Letters, and 15 papers and reviews in Nature series (Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Physics, Nature Materials and Nature Communications). A full list of publications is available at Google Scholar Profile

He has served for ten years as Spintronic workpackage leader in the Graphene Flagship (GF) and as DIVISION leader on “Enabling Science and Materials”, and as such he was member of the management panel of the GF. He is currently involved in the IAM4EU initiative (www.iam-i.eu) and has been appointed to coordinate efforts for promoting the deployment of AI in the innovation processes of advanced materials.

He is Editor in Chief of J. Phys. Materials from IoP and one of the main organisers of key international conference series GRAPHENE 20XX https://www.grapheneconf.com and since QUANTUM MATTER 20XX https://www.quantumconf.eu and AI4AM https://ai4am.net.