Alumni Testimonials

Alumni

Leilee Margaret Chojnacki
Leilee Margaret Chojnacki

Nationality: United Kingdom
Unit: Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
Year of Graduation: 2024
 
Life after OIST: Postdoctoral Researcher: Horizon Europe PARIS project, Germany

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Tai Duong Anh Tran
Tai Duong Anh Tran

Nationality: Vietnam
Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Year of Graduation: 2025

Life after OIST: Postdoctoral Researcher with Dodge Family Fellowship, Center for Quantum Research and Technology, the University of Oklahoma, USA

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Minh Hoan Dinh
Minh Hoan Dinh

Nationality: Vietnam
Unit: Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit
Year of Graduation: 2024

Life after OIST: Postdoctoral scholar at Brock University

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Florian Lalande
Florian Lalande

Nationality: France 
Unit: Neural Computation Unit 
Year of Graduation: 2024 
 
Life after OIST: Researcher at Sony AI, Japan

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Vivek Pareek
Vivek Pareek

Nationality: India 
Unit: Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit 
Year of Graduation: 2023 
 
Life after OIST: Postdoctoral Research Associate, California Institute of Technology , U.S.A.

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Afshan Jamshaid

Nationality: Pakistan
Unit: Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit
Year of Graduation: 2021

Life after OIST: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute

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Stefan Pommer

Nationality: Germany
Unit: Neurobiology Research Unit
Year of Graduation: 2020

Life after OIST: Postdoc at University Medical Hospital, Germany

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Hsie-Fu (Paul) Tsai

Nationality: Taiwan
Unit: Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit
Year of Graduation: 2020

Life after OIST: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taiwan

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Leonidas Georgiou

Nationality:  Cyprus
Unit: Optical Neuroimaging Unit
Year of Graduation: 2020

Life after OIST: Junior Analyst at Hadean Ventures, Norway

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Adrian David

Nationality: Romania 
Unit: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit 
Year of Graduation: 2020 
 
Life after OIST: Head of Operations at Upgrade Education, Hungary

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Irina Reshodko

Nationality: Kazakhstan
Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Year of Graduation: 2019

Life after OIST: WAY, Norway

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Hiroaki Hamada

Nationality: Japan
Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Year of Graduation: 2019

Life after OIST: Research, Araya Inc, Japan

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Lena Schulze

Nationality: Germany
Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Year of Graduation: 2019

Life after OIST: Senior Data Scientist/Machine learning Engineer at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Luxemburg

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Jiabao Chen

Nationality: China
Unit: Quantum Dynamics Unit
Year of Graduation: 2019

Life after OIST: Software Engineer at QunaSys, Japan

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Rico Pohle

Nationality: Germany
Unit: Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
Year of Graduation: 2018

Life after OIST: Postdoc, Waseda University, Japan

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Dr. Masakazu Igarashi
Masakazu Igarashi

Nationality: Japan
Unit: Neurobiology Research Unit
Year of Graduation: 2018

Life after OIST: Postdoctoral Fellow at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, U.S.A.

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