Ermanno Botti

Ermanno Botti completed his BSc(2020-2023) and MSc(2023-2025) degrees in physics from the university of Milan-Bicocca. He carried out his Master's thesis within the THEOS group at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) under the supervision of Prof. Davide Campi and Prof. Nicola Marzari. During his time in Lausanne he developed methodological advancements in the treatment of the electrostatic interaction between charged defects in periodic boundary conditions. Since September 2025 he has been pursuing a PhD at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), under the supervision of Dr. Iurii Timrov and Prof. Oleg Yazyev. His work focuses on methodological development and applications in the field of altermagnets, with emphasis on magnonic physics.