The NanoLund Annual Meeting 2025 took place on October 8th at the Loop. Not only underlined by the Nobel Prize in Physics announced the day before, this year’s theme, “Quantum science and technology – from fundamental science to applications”, is also connected to the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), which marks a century since the foundational discoveries that gave rise to quantum mechanics. Programme chairs Ville Maisi and Petter Persson guided us through the day. NanoLund Director Anders Mikkelsen provided an update on our thriving research environment, and Andrew Jordan introduced the meeting theme with a talk entitled "Nanoscience and Quantum Technology: A Happy Marriage."
We had the pleasure of listening to presentations of seedling projects by Hedda Christine Soland and Ferdinand Omlor, hearing poster pitches by our PhD students, and listening to talks in no less than three sessions: Quantum Systems and Devices (chair Tönu Pulleritz), Bio and Sensing (chair Christelle Prinz), and Materials and Electronics (chair Erik Lind).
The NanoLund Junior Scientist Ideas Award was presented to:
• Hedda Christine Soland, PhD student, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis: A novel way to controllably grow ferromagnetic MnAs/semiconducting GaAs heterojunction nanowires
• Ferdinand Omlor, PhD student, Solid State Physics: Ultrastrong coupled quantum dots interacting with photon pulses
• Glenn J. Coope, PhD student, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis: Exploring the Biomedical Potential of Deep Eutectic Solvents for Stabilising Synthetic Lung Surfactant Formulations: A Nanoscale Approach
The Young Teacher Award was given to André Andersen, PhD student, Electrical and Information Technology; Gabriele Cobucci, PhD student, Mathematical Physics; and Julia Valderas Gutiérrez, PhD student, Solid State Physics.
The Excellent Support Award was given to Anna Levin, Finance Officer, Solid State Physics, and Emil Eriksson, Research Engineer, Lund Nano Lab.
Poster Awards were given to Adamantia Logotheti, PhD student, Solid State Physics, for the poster Fabrication of AlGaN FinFET in a-plane direction on ammonothermal substrates (in the research area Materials and Semiconductor Technology); Hilma Holmström, Project Assistant, Solid State Physics: Thermal microwave emission and absorption (research area Photons and Quantum Physics), and Ruby Davtyan, PhD student, Solid State Physics: Turning Nanowires into 3D Molecular Trackers through Point Spread Function Detection (Life Science and Nano).
