Apeiron Intelligence is founded by three researchers from ICN2 who combine more than forty years of know-how and experience in forefront simulation development and application of AI tools to accelerate and extend computation capabilities in material science and technologies. Stephan Roche is a world expert in advanced quantum simulations with thirty years of experience acquired in high tech environments (France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Singapore, South Korea) including collaborations with industries such as NEC, Samsung and STMicroelectronics, and ten years of management experience within the Graphene Flagship. José Hugo Garcia, ERC starting grant AI4Spin (2023-2028), with track record in developing simulation methods, expertise in C/C++, CUDA, HPC programmer and creator of LSQUANT (www.lsquant.org). Andrei Tomut is expert developer in AI tools, who invented CompactifAI at Multiverse Computing in 2023.
An advisory board including prestigious scientists is chaired by Kari Hjelt, who is expert in building up corporate research and venture activities, as founder and CEO of several start-up companies, as well as director at Nokia Ventures Organization and at Nokia Research Centre and K. Novoselov, who is an expert in innovative advanced materials, Nobel Prize in physics 2010, current director of the Institute of Functional Intelligent Materials at NUS, Singapore.