Nicolas De Ro

Etterbeek, Belgium

05 February 1999

Belgian and Spanish

French (native), English (full professional) and Spanish (limited)

Boulevard d’Yvoy 16, 1205 Genève, Switzerland. Office SC1 215

nicolas.dero (at) unige.ch

PhD student, University of Geneva
Department of Theoretical Physics, group of Prof. Julian Sonner.

Master's degree, Université libre de Bruxelles
Master's degree in Physics, obtained with 90%, La Plus Grande Distinction (The Highest Honors).

Bachelor's degree, Université libre de Bruxelles
Bachelor's degree in Physics, obtained with 72%, Distinction (Honors).

Secondary education, European School of Brussels IV
European baccalaureate, obtained with 88%.

Master's thesis, Université libre de Bruxelles
Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems.
Title: Local equilibrium approach to quantum transport in normal fluids.
Supervised by Prof. Pierre Gaspard.

Internship, Université libre de Bruxelles
Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems.
Title: Superfluid-Mott insulator transition in the Bose-Hubbard model.
Supervised by Prof. Nathan Goldman.

Internship, Université libre de Bruxelles
Laboratory of Polymer and Soft Matter Dynamics.
Title: Asymmetric lipid transfer between vesicles measured by QCM-D.
Supervised by Prof. Patricia Maria Losada Pérez.

Bachelor's thesis, Université libre de Bruxelles
Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing service.
Title: Fonction de localisation électronique.
Supervised by Prof. Emilie Cauët.

Robert Brout Prize, awarded by the International Solvay Institutes.
In recognition of the quality of the work accomplished during the Master's degree (400 EUR).

Second AScBr Prize, awarded by the Association des Diplômés de la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université libre de Bruxelles.
In recognition of the high scientific level of the Master's thesis and the ability to vulgarize the results to a non-professional audience (250 EUR).

Postgraduate Fellowship, awarded by the Philippe Wiener – Maurice Anspach Foundation.
One-year scholarship awarded to graduates from the Université libre de Bruxelles who wish to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge or Oxford. (Unused scholarship)

Quantum Chaotic Many Body Dynamics 2026, Coventry, UK.
The meeting aimed to bring together participants from the condensed matter, high energy physics, and quantum information communities, and to foster discussion on quantum chaotic many-body dynamics and related themes.
Personal contribution: Poster presentation.

Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou 70 Years Later: Slow Dynamics in Classical and Quantum Physics, Trieste, Italy.
This conference brought together mathematicians and physicists to assess the legacy of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou problem, highlight recent advances, and explore future directions in both classical and quantum dynamics.
Personal contribution: None.

Workshop on Facets of Entanglement and visit of Princeton University, Princeton, USA.
The workshop aimed to bring together experts from quantum information, mathematics, and physics working on different facets of entanglement in many-body systems.
Personal contribution: Meetings with local professors.

Workshop in Honor of Prof. Pierre Gaspard, Brussels, Belgium.
The workshop was organized in honor of Pierre Gaspard, covering various aspects of statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and nonlinear physics.
Personal contribution: None.

New Perspectives in Quantum Many-Body Physics, Zürich, Switzerland.
Informal one-day workshop designed to provide participants with an overview of recent developments in quantum many-body physics.
Personal contribution: None.

Workshop on Chaos and Information Dynamics in Quantum Many-Body Systems, Erice, Italy.
Focused on a comprehensive account of quantum chaotic dynamics driven by many-body interactions: scrambling, out-of-time-order correlations, thermalization dynamics.
Personal contribution: None.

School on Quantum Many-Body Phenomena out of Equilibrium: From Chaos to Criticality, Trieste, Italy.
Overview of frontier research topics in the context of nonequilibrium quantum many-body dynamics.
Personal contribution: Poster presentation.

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus School – Open Quantum Systems and Physics, Hyytiälä, Finland.
Education in state-of-the-art experimental realizations and theoretical formulations of open quantum systems.
Personal contribution: Flash talk and poster presentation.

9th MaNEP Winter School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Hot topics in driven, two-dimensional, and topological matter.
Personal contribution: None.

Invited speaker at the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Master's thesis presentation.

Méthodes numériques pour physiciens I (Numerical methods for physicists I) [BA1 course]
Main course given by Dr. Christophe Berthod.

Mécanique classique pour mathématicien·nes (Classical mechanics for mathematicians) [BA3 course]
Main course given by Profs. Anton Alekseev and Julian Sonner.

Group theory for physics students [BA3 course]
Main course given by Prof. Stefano Foffa.

Innosuisse Start-up Training Business Concept
14-week training program and development of a business project that was positively evaluated by the jury.

Collège de Genève
External examiner of the oral Swiss Matura exam in mathematics (normal and advanced levels). Total of 14.5 days of examination.

RMI
Based on research initiated during my master's degree, Prof. Stéphane Vannitsem hired me to pursue this research for two months.