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==Main skills==
*Materials simulations in Quantum Espresso and Yambo
*Scientific coding in C++ and python
*Scientific research in physics and mathematics
*Scientific communication
*Project management

==Academic formation==
*2021 - : PhD, Theory and Simulation of 2D Materials, Institute of Materials Science, University of Valencia, Spain. Scholarship under the project “Magnons in magnetic 2D materials for a novel electronics (2DMAGNONICS). CPI-21-426”, funded by the Government of the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia
*2020 - 2021: PhD, Applied Physics and Technology, University of Salamanca, Spain. Scholarship under the European project “ATTOSTRUCTURA: Structured attosecond pulses for ultrafast nanoscience funded by the European Research Council of the Horizon 2020 program.
*2018 - 24. sep. 2019: Master’s, Theoretical Physics, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
*2014 - 2018: Bachelor, Physics, University of Valencia, Spain. Expenses for registration, accommodation and transportation covered by scholarship from the Ministry of Education (Government of Spain).
*2014 - 2018: Baccalaureate of music, Piano, Professional Conservatory of Music of Villena, Spain.

==Languages==
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|Bosnian
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==Computer skills==

===Operating systems===
*Linux (Ubuntu, Debian), MacOS, Windows

===Programming===
*C++, Python

===Material simulation packages===
*Yambo, Quantum Espresso, VASP, Wannier90, SpinW

===Text editors=== 
*Microsoft Office Word, Pages, Google Docs, LATEX.

===Spreadsheets and data analysis===
*Microsoft Office Excel, Matlab, Wolfram Mathematica.

===Other software skills===
*Music recording software: ''Ableton'', ''Audacity''
*Music sheet editors: ''Finale'', ''Guitar Pro''

==Memberships==
*2021 - : MagMa (Optics and Magnetism of Quantum Materials) research group, ICMUV (Instituto de Ciencias de los Materiales de la Universidad de Valencia [Institute of Materials Science of the University of Valencia]): '''PhD researcher'''.
*2021 - : ICMUV (Instituto de Ciencias de los Materiales de la Universidad de Valencia [Institute of Materials Science of the University of Valencia]), University of Valencia: '''Research Assistant'''.
*2020 - 2021: ALF-USAL (Aplicaciones Láser y Fotónica - Universidad de Salamanca [Laser Applications and Photonics - University of Salamanca]) research group, University of Salamanca: '''PhD researcher'''.
*2019 - 2020: SAMOPHYS (Sarajevo Atomic, Molecular and Optical PHYSics) research group, University of Sarajevo: '''Research Collaborator'''.
*2019 - : Fundación de la Asamblea de Ciudadanas y Ciudadanos del Mediterráneo (‘Foundation of the Assembly of Citizens of the Mediterranean’), Circle of Sarajevo: '''Representative'''.
*2018 - 2022: Real Sociedad Española de Física (‘Royal Society of Physics’): Theoretical Physics Division, Specialized Group of Astrophysics, and Specialized Group of Quantum Information: '''Student member'''.

==Masterclasses, seminars, conferences and posters==

*November 30, 2023: Aulas Universitarias de la Experiencia (AUEX) [University classrooms of experience], CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Valencia, Spain. '''Masterclass: Breve introducción a la inteligencia artificial: Conceptos básicos, aplicaciones y futuro [Brief introduction to Artificial Intelligence: basic ideas, applications and future]'''

*October 19, 2023: Workshop Magnons and Magnetism in 2D Materials, ADEIT and University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. '''Speaker: The role of halide ligands on the magnon states of chromium trihalides'''

*September 7, 2023: Joint CMD 30 - FisMat 2023 conference, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. (https://eventi.cnism.it/cmd30-fismat)  '''Speaker: Magnons in chromium trihalide monolayers: an ab initio approach'''

*August 30, 2023: Advanced Quantum ESPRESSO tutorial: Hubbard and Koopmans functionals from linear response, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. (https://sites.google.com/view/hubbard-koopmans-2023/home) '''Poster: The role of halide ligands on the magnon states of chromium trihalides'''

*November 18, 2022: 3rd Mediterranean Congress “Music and Science”: Distribution of resources: Materials science in technological and musical development, ACM Foundation and University of Valencia, Online. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UmhSrtx-9Y)  '''Main organizer and speaker: ''Theory in materials science'''''

*September 21, 2022: Presentation of the 3rd Mediterranean Congress “Music and Science”: Distribution of resources: Materials science in technological and musical development, ACM Foundation and University of Valencia, Online. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjU3s6WH_7I) '''Main organizer and speaker: ''Understanding music from a scientific perspective'''''

*June 24, 2022: Frontiers in Quantum Materials and Devices 2020 (FQMD), Valencia, Spain. (https://gefes-rsef.org/frontiers-in-quantum-materials-and-devices-conference-valencia-june-20-24th-2022/) '''Poster: Study of the ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic order of VOCl: from monolayer to bulk'''

*November 27, 2021: 2nd Mediterranean Congress “Music and Science”: Music and science in today’s market: economic development and production. Is there room for a scientific and musical diplomacy?, ACM Foundation and University of Valencia, Online. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZZCJz2-_8g) '''Main organizer and speaker: ''Science in Bosnia and Herzegovina'''''

*November 27 - 28, 2020: 1st Mediterranean Congress “Music and Science”: Use of TICs in the covid scene, ACM Foundation and University of Valencia, Online. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS8Vjm1HtlY) '''Main organizer and speaker: ''Music as a scientific discipline'''''

*September 7 - 11, 2020: 5th Grandmaster Early-Career Workshop in Physics, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, and Online. (http://palata.fzu.cz/gewp2020/) '''Speaker: Gauge covariance of the strong field approximation'''

*June 22 - 27, 2020: Solidarity Conference 2020, international researchers from the Academia to face the impact of covid on the scientific development, online. (https://mdzamonja.wixsite.com/solidarityconference) '''Speaker: Three axioms for education to understand the future'''

*November 8, 2019: VIIIth FACM Meeting in Barcelona “the Youth and the Mediterranean”, ACM Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. (http://fundacionacm.org/es/2020/04/29/memoria-del-viii-encuentro-facm-jovenes-del-mediterraneo-barcelona-2019/) '''Speaker: Pseudoscience and scientific truth in relation to new technologies'''

*April 11 - 15, 2019: Lights of Tuscany programme 2019, University of Pisa and University of Florence, Italy. (http://ai-sf.it/lot19/)  '''Speaker: Quantum Computational Complexity Theory'''

*September 12, 2018: Extracurricular activities, Secondary School ''I.E.S. Antonio Navarro Santafé'', Villena, Spain. '''Divulgative talk: ''Scientific thought'''''

*October 20, 2017: Earth beyond Earth, Innocampus Explora team, University of Valencia, Spain. '''Divulgative talk: ''Size of the Universe and how to travel it'''''

==Research experience and main results==
*2021 - : PhD with the research group Optics and Magnetism of Quantum Materials MagMa at ICMUV (Institute of Materials Science of the University of Valencia): ''Theory and simulation of 2D materials''. '''Current research: Development of computational techniques to calculate magnetic properties of 2D materials'''

*2020 - 2021: PhD with the research group on Laser Applications and Photonics ALF-USAL (Aplicaciones Láser y Fotónica - Universidad de Salamanca) at the University in Salamanca: ''Ultrafast magnetism induced by structured lasers''. '''Main carried research: Particle-In-Cell codes applied to the simulation of laser-plasma interactions'''

*2018 - 2019: Master’s thesis with the theoretical physics research group SAMOPHYS (Sarajevo Atomic, Molecular and Optical PHYSics) at the University in Sarajevo: ''Path Integral Formalism In Strong Laser Field Physics''. '''Main result: Gauge-covariant formulation of the Strong-Field Approximation'''

*2017 - 2018: Bachelor’s thesis at the Department of Theoretical Physics of the University in Valencia: ''Quantum Computational Complexity Theory''. '''Main result: Quantum supremacy might be a theorem of quantum computation and theoretical quantum computation might solve the P/NP problem'''

*2016: Statistical data analysis for the Unió de Periodistes Valencians (‘Union of Valencian Journalists’): ''Crisi al sector de periodistes I periodistes gràfics a la Comunitat Valenciana'' (‘Crisis at the journalists and graphical journalists sector in Valencian Community’). '''Result: Statistical description of how journalists’ jobs were affected by the Spanish economic crisis'''

==Internships and additional formation==
*April 19-20, 2023: Introduction to structural resolution and refinement with X-ray diffraction, Department of Applied Physics ad Electromagnetism, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. '''Active student: X-ray diffraction simulation software - FullProf suite'''
*March 20-25, 2023: Density Functional Theory, Coursera, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (Online) '''Active student: Online course - Detailed introduction to Density Functional Theory'''

*December 12 - 22, 2022: Research internship at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, Portugal. '''Tasks: learning tight-binding techniques and its computational implementation to calculate magnetic properties of 2D materials'''

*July 11 - 15, 2022: 3rd International Summer School on “Carbon and related nanomaterials: synthesis, characterization, properties and applications in energy”, University Residence of Jaca, Jaca, Spain (https://cursosextraordinarios.unizar.es/curso/2022/3rd-international-summer-school-carbon-and-related-nanomaterials-synthesis) '''Active student: contribution of carbon nanomaterials and related systems for scientific and technological progress'''

*April 04 - 08, 2022: Ab-initio Many-Body Methods and Simulations with the Yambo Code, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (https://indico.ictp.it/event/9780/) '''Active student: many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) approaches to first-principles excited-state simulations using the YAMBO code'''

*March 21 - 25, 2022: Theoretical Spectroscopy Lectures, Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire Headquarters (CECAM-HQ), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. (https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/63)  '''Active student: theoretical, practical, and numerical aspects of TDDFT and MBPT, and codes implementing them (ABINIT, DP, 2Light, EXC)'''

*October 15 - 20, 2018: Sarajevo School of High Energy Physics 2018 (SSHEP 2018), Faculty of Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (https://indico.cern.ch/event/712182/) '''Active student: theoretical and experimental methods applied to high energy physics (symmetries, instrumentation and data analysis)'''

*September 2015 - July 2017: Innocampus Explora team, Burjassot-Paterna University Campus, University of Valencia, Spain. '''Active member: creation of a multidisciplinary network in the scientific campus of the University of Burjassot-Paterna'''

*July 11 - 24, 2015: Research internship at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Valencia (OAUV), Aras de los Olmos, Spain. '''Tasks: learning astronomical software IRAF and assisting with astrnomical observations'''

==Teaching experience==
*November 30, 2023: Aulas Universitarias de la Experiencia (AUEX) [University classrooms of experience], CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Valencia, Spain. '''Masterclass: Breve introducción a la inteligencia artificial: Conceptos básicos, aplicaciones y futuro [Brief introduction to Artificial Intelligence: basic ideas, applications and future]'''

*May 2023 - ., MENTOOR clases particulares. (https://mentoor.es) '''Subjects: C++, Automata theory and formal languages, Physics Grades: University'''

*April - June 2020, University of Salamanca. '''Subject: Physics II - Lab.  Grade: 1st - Bachelor in Chemistry'''

*April - June 2020, University of Salamanca. '''Subject: Physics II - Optics Lab.  Grade: 1st - Bachelor in Chemical Engineering'''

*August 2019 - July 2020, International school Richmond Park School Sarajevo. '''Subject: Physics. Grades: 7th, 8th and 9th - Cambridge Primary School''' (https://rps.edu.ba/en/)

==List of publications and citations:==
Esquembre Kučukalić, A. (2022) Theory in Materials Science. ''Memoria del III Congreso Mediterráneo “Música y Ciencia”'', p.30-34. FACM: Online.

Available at:

https://fundacionacm.org/es/2023/06/23/memoria-del-iii-congreso-mediterraneo-de-musica-y-ciencia/   

Esquembre Kučukalić, A. (2022) Science in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ''Memoria del II Congreso Mediterráneo “Música y Ciencia”'', p.46-47. FACM: Online.

Available at:

https://fundacionacm.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/MEMORIA-II-CONGRES-MIC-v2.pdf

Esquembre Kučukalić, A. (2021) Prólogo - El pensamiento científico en música. ''Memoria del I Congreso Mediterráneo “Música y Ciencia”'', p.6-8. FACM: Online.

Available at:

https://fundacionacm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Memoria-Congres-Musica-i-Ciencia-V3.1.pdf

Esquembre Kučukalić, A. (2021) La música como disciplina científica. ''Memoria del I Congreso Mediterráneo “Música y Ciencia”'', p.54-55. FACM: Online.

Available at:

https://fundacionacm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Memoria-Congres-Musica-i-Ciencia-V3.1.pdf

Esquembre Kučukalić, A.; Becker, W.; Miloševič, D.B. Application of the Phase-Space Path Integral to Strong-Laser-Field-Assisted Electron-Ion Radiative Recombination: A Gauge-Covariant Formulation. ''Symmetry'' '''2020''', 12, 1606.

Work cited by:

Kavazovič, K.; Čerkič, A; Miloševič, D.B. Electron-molecule scattering in a bichromatic elliptically polarised laser field: Plateau structures and two-centre interference minima. ''Molecular Physics'' '''119''' (12), 2021.

Esquembre Kučukalić, A. Pseudociencias y verdad científica en las nuevas tecnologías. ''Mémorie VIII`eme rencontre de la Fondation ACM: Les Assises des jeunes de la Méditerranée'', '''2019''', 41-42.

Available at:

http://www.fundacionacm.org/es/2020/04/29/memoria-del-viii-encuentro-facm-jovenes-del-mediterraneo-barcelona-2019/

==Works accepted or in process to be published==
Esquembre Kučukalić, A. (2022) Prólogo, transcripción de conferencia y conclusiones. ''Memoria del II Congreso Mediterráneo “Música y Ciencia”''. FACM: Online.

Esquembre Kučukalić, A. ''General Physics for Primary and Secondary School - A modern perspective'', '''2020'''; IN PROCESS.