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This PhD project is part of the new Swiss project “Learning the electrons: Design, training and application of a general model of the electronic structure of matter”, which aims to develop next‑generation machine‑learning models for electronic‑structure theory. Building on recent advances in machine‑learned interatomic potentials and electronic‑structure simulations, the project seeks to create transfera...