After much procrastination, welcome to our webpage! This page aims at being the main personal page of the author, Pierre Darancet.

My Professional Background: After many, many years of professional preparation, I am an Assistant Scientist at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, one of the five Department of Energy’s Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs), hosted in the Nanoscience and Technology Division of Argonne National Laboratory. Prior to starting on this position in 2014, I was a postdoc at Columbia University (2012-2014) in the groups of Chris Marianetti and Andrew J. Millis, and at the Molecular Foundry (2008-2012) in the group of Jeffrey B. Neaton. I completed my PhD (2005-2008) at the Institut Neel, working with Didier Mayou and Valerio Olevano, after obtaining a MSc in Applied Physics from INSA Toulouse (2000-2005) as well as a MSc from University Paul Sabatier (2004-2005).

Since 2016, I am a fellow at the Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering.

As should be said once and for all: Anything I say here or here are my personal views, and in no way are official opinions or representative of Argonne National Laboratory or its Nanoscience and Technology division.

Here are the different things I wish to implement and achieve with this website:

  1. Keep relatively up-to-date versions of my CV beyond my Google Scholar profile
  2. Document how to contribute to the group github repositories
  3. Document and comment the bibliography I am coming across
  4. Discuss my published articles and document my input files and data beyond what I see as insufficient standards of the community
  5. Document personal and professional projects
  6. Publish mentoring notes for students and postdocs
  7. Publish Sphinx documentations and tutorials on the codes I publish and use
  8. Document Argonne 101 and group practices
  9. Publish Gnuplot scripts used in my work