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Ali Esquembre Kučukalić


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Quick facts

Date of birth

1996-04-01

Nationality

Spanish


Curriculum vitae


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

Language Speaking Writing
Spanish Native Native
English C1 C1
Catalan B2 B2
Bosnian B2 B1
Croatian B2 B1
Serbian B2 A2
Italian B1 A2
Arabic B1 A2

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 Mediterr´aneo (‘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 b´asicos, 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.
  • 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
  • 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 (On- line) 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
  • 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 Cam- pus, 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 ob- servations

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 b´asicos, 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 Mediterr´aneo “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 Mediterr´aneo “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 Mediterr´aneo “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 Mediterr´aneo “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 Mediterr´aneo “Música y Ciencia”. FACM: Online.

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

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