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Dr. Xavier Rozanska
Xavier is a Research Scientist focusing on simulations of fluids and soft matter alone or in interactions with solids.
Prior to joining Materials Design® in 2011, Xavier Rozanska worked as research scientist in many different countries and places. After getting a master’s diploma in computer science and theoretical chemistry in France, he started his work on his PhD in the Netherlands in 1998. He obtained his PhD in chemistry at the Technical University of Eindhoven in 2002 and won the ASML prize for applied research for his work on the ab initio analysis of the elementary mechanisms of reactions catalyzed by zeolite.
For three years, he was a Humboldt fellow and postdoc at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he carried out quantum chemical calculations on transition metal oxide catalysts. In France, he worked at the Universities Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris and Henri Poincaré in Nancy and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. While there, he analyzed different bio, organic and inorganic chemical systems using static and dynamic methods at quantum and molecular mechanic levels. He is author and co-author of more than 40 articles, conference proceedings and book contributions.
Xavier and his wife live in Nanterre and they enjoy their weekend “let’s discover the world” tours with their three years old son. Xavier’s hobbies are social and simulation games, reading sci-fi, fantasy and history, as well as cooking, and all cultural activities that Paris can offer.