These days we are often asked about alumni moving to research positions in academia or national labs, and in the group we pay a particular care to mentoring dedicated scientists. Here I've tried to made a list, noting the first research position obtained. Please let us know of anyone missing... Also, in the US five former students/postdocs were awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER Award (Matteo Cococcioni (U. of Minnesota), Ismaila Dabo (Penn State), Heather Kulik (MIT), Oliviero Andreussi (UNT), Xiaofeng Qian (Texas A&M))
Young-Su Lee, Senior Research Scientist, KIST Seoul (PhD 2002-2006)
Brandon Wood, Staff Member, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (PhD 2002-2007)
Patrick H.-L. Sit, Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (PhD 2002-2006)
Cody Friesen, Associate Professor, Arizona State University (co-PhD 2002-2004)
Luke Shulenburger, Senior Staff, Sandia National Labs (BSc, 2002)
Mikael Rechstmann, Assistant Professor, Penn State University (BSc, 2003)
Ismaila Dabo, Assistant Professor, Penn State University (PhD 2003-2007)
Boris Kozinsky, Associate Professor, Harvard University (PhD 2004-2007)
Heather Kulik, Assistant Professor, MIT (PhD 2004-2009)
Yu-Tzu Elise Li, Assistant Professor, NTNU Taiwan (PhD 2006-2011)
Jivtesh Garg, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma (PhD 2006-2011)
Sejoong Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology (UST) Korea (PhD 2006-2011)
Damian Scherlis, Associate Professor, University of Buenos Aires (postdoc 2002-2005)
Matteo Cococcioni, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota (postdoc 2003-2006, now Associate Professor, University of Pavia)
Paolo Umari, Associate Professor, University of Padua (postdoc 2004-2005)
Nicola Bonini, Senior Lecturer (aka Assistant Professor), King’s College London (postdoc 2005-2011)
Arash Mostofi, Professor, Imperial College London (postdoc 2005-2007)
Francesca Baletto, Senior Lecturer (aka Assistant Professor), King’s College London (postdoc 2006-2007)
Oswaldo Dieguez, Associate Professor, University of Tel Aviv (postdoc 2006-2007)
Timo Thonhauser, Associate Professor, Wake Forest University (postdoc 2006-2007)
Oliviero Andreussi, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas (postdoc 2008-2012, 2015-2017)
Xiaofeng Qian, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M (postdoc, 2008-2011)
Davide Ceresoli, Research Scientist (tenured), CNR and University of Milan (postdoc 2008-2011)
Andrea Ferretti, Research Scientist (tenured), CNR and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (postdoc 2009-2011)
Cheol-Hwan Park, Associate Professor, Seoul National University (postdoc 2010-2012)
Michele Ceriotti, Assistant Professor, EPFL (short postdoc 2011)
David D. O’ Regan, Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin (postdoc 2011-2013)
Alexander Urban, Assistant Professor, Columbia University (visiting student, Fall 2011)
Céline Dupont, CNRS and Université de Bourgogne (visiting postdoc Jan 2012 - Dec 2013)
Giorgia Fugallo, CNRS and Université de Nantes (visiting postdoc 2013)
Ivano Castelli, Assistant Professor, Danish Technical University (DTU) (postdoc 2014-2015)
Marco Gibertini, Assistant Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (postdoc 2013-2017)
Emine Küçükbenli, Assistant Professor, Boston University (postdoc 2012-2014)
Davide Campi, Assistant Professor, University of Milano Bicocca (postdoc 2016-2020)
Antimo Marrazzo, Assistant Professor, University of Trieste, then SISSA (PhD 2015-2019)
Thibault Sohier, CNRS and Université de Montpellier (postdoc, Jan 2016 - Oct 2019)
Casper Wenzel Andersen, Research Scientist, SINTEF (postdoc, Oct 2018 - Jul 2021)
Samuel Poncé, Assistant Professor, UC Louvain (Marie Curie Fellow, Nov 2019 - Oct 2021)
Philippe Schwaller, Assistant Professor, EPFL (master semester project, Fall 2014; master semester project, Spring 2015; master thesis, Spring 2016)
Giovanni Pizzi, Group Leader, PSI (postdoc and senior scientist, Jan 2012 to Jan 2023)
Nicola Colonna, Tenure-track scientist, PSI (postdoc, Dec 2014 - May 2019)
Iurii Timrov, Tenure-track scientist, PSI (postdoc and senior scientist, Feb 2016 - Oct 2023)
Lorenzo Monacelli, Assistant Professor, U. of Roma La Sapienza (Marie Curie Fellow, Jan 2022 - Dec 2023)
Michele Simoncelli, Assistant Professor, Columbia University (PhD student, Oct 2016 - May 2021; postdoc Jun 2021 - Aug 2021)