Jigyasa Nigam

Postdoc, MIT

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77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139

I am a postdoc at MIT, funded by the School of Engineering’s Postdoc Fellowship for Excellence in Engineering!
In August 2024 I finished my PhD at the Lab of Computational Science and Modeling at EPFL, which I called home since the summer of 2020.
Before embarking on this adventure, I was working on getting my Masters at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, where I started given my fascination with the stars and mysteries of the giant worlds beyond our world, but ended up falling in love with the dynamics of objects on the opposite end of the length scale. My current research interests include machine learning (ML) enabled simulations at the atomic scale, incorporating symmetries (equivariance) in these frameworks and unifying them with electronic structure.

news

Sep 01, 2024 So excited to begin my postdoc today!:sparkles:
Aug 09, 2024 The day I became Dr. Nigam

latest posts

selected publications

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    Jigyasa Nigam, Tess Smidt, and Geneviève Dusson
    arXiv.org, Feb 2026
  2. Jigyasa Nigam, and Max Veit
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Feb 2026
    Publisher: IOP Publishing
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    S Lewis, T Hempel, J Jimenez-Luna, M Gastegger, Yu Xie, A Foong, V Satorras, and  others
    Science, Feb 2025
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    Divya Suman, Jigyasa Nigam, Sandra Saade, Paolo Pegolo, Hanna Tuerk, Xing Zhang, Garnet Kin Chan, and Michele Ceriotti
    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Feb 2025
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    Jigyasa Nigam
    Feb 2024
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    Arthur Lin, Kevin K Huguenin-Dumittan, Yong-Cheol Cho, Jigyasa Nigam, and Rose K Cersonsky
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, Feb 2024
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    Edoardo Cignoni, Divya Suman, Jigyasa Nigam, Lorenzo Cupellini, Benedetta Mennucci, and Michele Ceriotti
    ACS Central Science, Feb 2024
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    Jigyasa Nigam, Sergey N Pozdnyakov, Kevin K Huguenin-Dumittan, and Michele Ceriotti
    APL Machine Learning, Feb 2024
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    Jigyasa Nigam, Michael J Willatt, and Michele Ceriotti
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, Feb 2022
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    Jigyasa Nigam, Sergey Pozdnyakov, Guillaume Fraux, and Michele Ceriotti
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, Feb 2022
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    Andrea Grisafi, Jigyasa Nigam, and Michele Ceriotti
    Chemical Science, Feb 2021
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    Jigyasa Nigam, Sergey Pozdnyakov, and Michele Ceriotti
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, Feb 2020