ICREA Prof. Stephan Roche is working at the Catalan Institute of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology-ICN2. He leads the "Theoretical & Computational Nanoscience" group which focuses on physics of Topological Quantum Matter (graphene & topological insulators,...) and 2D materials-based van der Waals heterostructures. He pioneered the development of linear scaling quantum transport approaches enabling simulations of billion atoms-scale disordered models (www.lsquant.org). He studied Theoretical Physics at ENS, got PhD (1996) at Grenoble University (France); worked in Japan, Spain & Germany; appointed assistant Prof. in 2000, CEA Researcher in 2004 and ICREA in 2009. Award: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). He is co-founder of Apeiron Intelligence (www.apeironai.eu), a spinoff dedicated to the development of computational worflows to accelerate advanced materials design for large scale industries

S. Roche explores quantum transport in Topological Quantum Matter including graphene & topological insulators, and 2D materials-based van der Waals heterostructures and amorphous structures (amorphous boron-nitride & graphene). Topics (i) topological physics & entanglement (ii) Artificial Intelligence applied to Condensed Matter (ii) spin transport phenomena (iii) quantum decoherence mechanisms (iv) thermal transport at nanoscale (v) quantum devices simulation. He pioneered and is leading the development of linear scaling transport approaches, enabling unrivalled simulations of large-scale (disordered) models, which are now efficiently connected with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools providing unprecedented ab-initio accuracy of properties simulation in billion atoms scale models