Thin-film deposition
RF-sputtering, spray-coating, and spin-coating for the fabrication of nanowire networks and oxide thin films.
RF sputtering
spray coating
spin coating
PhD candidate & teaching assistant in materials physics,
Department of Physics, University of Liège.
I study transport and percolation in stochastic media, and the optical response of the same disordered systems through numerical modelling: Mie scattering and transfer-matrix methods. The central object of my PhD is the silver nanowire network: a disordered transparent conductor on which I build theory, simulation, and experiment in parallel, with applications to energy materials, including smart windows and low-emissivity coatingss.
Graduate and undergraduate training in physics at the University of Liège.
Research on stochastic media and the physics of energy-management surfaces. Percolation, optical and electrical transport, and radiative properties of metallic nanowire networks.
Master's thesis — "Numerical investigation of low-density metallic nanowire networks as a cure for defective transparent conducting materials." A computational study of how sparse silver-nanowire overlays can restore electrical percolation through damaged or discontinued transparent conductors; the precursor to the Nanoscale paper on bridge percolation (see Publications).
Core physics curriculum.
Certified short programmes outside the formal degree track — pedagogy and high-performance computing.
Training on parallel and accelerated scientific computing — CUDA, MPI, OpenMP, performance profiling, and large-scale code optimisation on SLURM-scheduled HPC infrastructure.
Certified training programme (10 ECTS) in university-level pedagogy — course design, active-learning methods, assessment, and reflective evaluation of teaching practice for early-career teaching assistants and academics.
State-of-the-art and future perspectives on critical materials issues for the production and storage of renewable and sustainable energy. Lectures and workshops by leading experts in materials physics, chemistry, and engineering, with a focus on energy applications.
Hover any side to read the specific threads of my research programme — the physics, the experimental techniques, and the computational methods that support them.
My PhD sits at the intersection of three tightly coupled threads. The physics is the transport, percolation, and optical response of disordered metallic nanowire networks, and their integration with VO₂ and other oxide layers for smart-window, low-emissivity, and radiative-cooling applications. The experimental side covers fabrication and characterisation: RF magnetron sputtering, spray- and spin-coating, SEM and XRD, and UV–Vis–NIR spectrophotometry for emissivity and optical-constants extraction. The computational side builds the interpretive layer: percolation and graph-theory models of electrical connectivity, Mie and transfer-matrix optical modelling, and HPC simulation on SLURM-scheduled clusters (MPI / OpenMP, COMSOL, custom C++/Python solvers). Theory, simulation, and experiment advance in parallel.
RF-sputtering, spray-coating, and spin-coating for the fabrication of nanowire networks and oxide thin films.
Morphology and crystallographic analysis of thin films and nanowire networks.
UV–Vis–NIR and IR spectrophotometry, emissivity measurement, and DC sheet-resistance characterisation.
Percolation phenomena, Mie scattering, stability and non-equilibrium transport in random nanowire networks.
VO₂-based thermochromic stacks and passive radiative-cooling coatings for autonomous thermal regulation of building envelopes.
Advanced proficiency in Python and C/C++; custom solvers for charge transport and percolation in high-dimensional networks.
Scaling simulations on supercomputing clusters via OpenMP and MPI to model systems beyond standard workstation limits.
Integration of COMSOL Multiphysics (FEM) and Mathematica for hybrid analytical–numerical workflows.
Work clusters around three topics — percolation in nanowire networks, optical modelling, and thermal stability & oxide integration.
Recent conference appearances and invited seminars. Slides available on request.
Teaching and supervision at the University of Liège, 2023–present.
As a doctoral teaching assistant, I split my time between my thesis and pedagogical supervision — running tutorial and lab sessions, co-supervising Master's theses, and mentoring undergraduate internship students. Pedagogy is a genuine part of the job for me, not a side duty. Alongside the courses listed below, I have built a growing library of manim animations to visualise concepts in electromagnetism and quantum mechanics — freely available on my GitHub.
Weekly tutorials and exercise sessions for first-year physics students.
Tutorials covering special relativity, early quantum theory, and introductory quantum mechanics for engineering students.
Laboratory supervision and tutoring on analog/digital electronics and experimental methodology.
Three theses on transport in metallic nanowire networks, one on thermochromic materials.
Physics and engineering students working on experimental projects (lasting from 6 weeks to the academic year). Seven have since started a PhD.
Research distinctions on the left; applied, computational, and entrepreneurial recognitions on the right.
What I care about when the solver has stopped running.