[10-08-2023]
How can physics help reduce emissions from energy-guzzling data centres? With a Rubicon grant, physicist Remko Fermin will conduct fundamental research on superconducting diodes at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Diodes are like a one-way street for current and therefore crucial for electronic devices.
‘Simply put, I make superconducting materials in geometric shapes to investigate whether that yields special properties,’ Fermin says. During his doctoral research at the Leiden Institute of Physics, he and colleagues discovered that a tiny, elliptical magnet with two superconducting contacts on it could serve as a memory element. ‘The physics in this device is very interesting, but it also has potential for applications.’
Read more about Remko's research here.
Rubicon grants
Research experience abroad is usually a vital aspect of building a career in academia. Rubicon allows talented scientists and academicians who recently obtained their PhD in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to gain experience at a foreign knowledge institute for a period of 1-2 years. This increases the chance that they can continue working in academia.
Rubicon runs for an indeterminate time. Each year, Rubicon has three funding rounds with deadlines around 1 April, 1 September and 1 December. The remaining deadlines in 2023 are: November 28. Once the call is open, a link appears at the bottom of this NWO/Rubicon page. In 2023, the budget for each round is approximately 2.47 million euros.
PhD defence - Amitesh Singh:"Non-Abelian Metamaterials:Emergent computing and memory"
PhD defence - Nick van Loo: "Shadow-wall lithography as a novel approach to Majorana devices"
2nd webinar series on “Photothermal Microscopy and Spectroscopy
PhD defence - Hans Bartling: "Quantum control of interacting nuclear and electron spins in diamond"
PhD defence - Anthony Birnie: "Genome-in-a-box: Building a Chromosome from the Bottom Up"
Theoretical physics: Seminar Theoretical High Energy Physics
PhD course: Microscopy - online version (to be taken anytime)
Casimir Summer School was a success!
31-08-2023
PhD position in Delft, Ryoichi Ishihara group: Photonic Circuits for Quantum Computer
Delft
13-02-2023
PhD positions in Leiden, Bhattacharyya lab: quantum transport in van der Waals heterostructures
Leiden
17-08-2022
Delft
02-08-2022
PhD position in Leiden, Allan lab: Electron pair microscopy
Leiden
01-08-2022