Quick Introduction

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Applied Mathematics at DAVID lab, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin (UVSQ). I’m currently working on inverse material design with Jérémie Cabessa, Thibault Charpentier, Marie-Pierre Gaigeot, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica.

Prior to that, I conducted my PhD in the MATHERIALS team, INRIA Paris, and CERMICS lab, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC), under the supervision of Éric Cancès and Antoine Levitt.

Research Interests

My main research topic is the numerical analysis and testing of novel methods in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. I find great pleasure to work on interdisciplinary subject, toward the development of digital tools for research or industry. You will find more information in the Research section.

Key words: electronic structure computation, wavefunction methods for open-shell systems, plane-wave discretization for solid state physics, Moiré materials, Wannier functions, optimization of Gaussian basis sets, Riemannian optimization.

Email: laurent(dot)vidal(at)uvsq(dot)fr.