Once a year, NanoLundians meet in Lund for an annual meeting. This year’s theme was “Materials – building the world” and the exciting program was put together by Maria Messing and Mattias Borg at NanoLund. Together with chairs Kimberly Thelander, Martin Leijnse, and Sara Blomberg they guided us all through the topics: Organic and earth-abundant materials, Quantum Materials, and Synthesis and Integration. Also, we had the pleasure to listen to several pitches of the posters.
After dinner, it was time for the much-awaited award ceremony.
Excellent Support Awards
The purpose of this award is to emphasize the critical importance of the work done by NanoLund administrative and technical personnel, without which none of our research and teaching would be possible. We, therefore, wish to highlight and reward some of the great achievements and excellent work in this area.
Awardees: Patrik Wirgin, finance officer, and Sungyoun Ju, research engineer.
Young Teacher Awards
The efforts of junior staff like PhD students, but also postdocs and other young researchers are often crucial for the courses we teach and help form the impression undergraduate students have of our research environment. Therefore, the “Early-Stage Researcher Awards for Outstanding Performance in Teaching” are given to highlight and reward some of the many great teachers among our staff. The purpose of this award is also to emphasize the importance of the teaching efforts done by NanoLund researchers.
Awardees: Linnéa Jönsson and David Alcer, PhD students at Solid State Physics.
Seedling projects – Junior Scientist Ideas Awards
Selection for this award is based on the originality, quality and impact of the project as judged across all research areas of NanoLund. Projects for this award are selected among high-quality proposals for novel research projects that can be submitted by all the PhD students and PostDocs at NanoLund.
Mikelis Marnauza and Robin Sjökvist, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis: “In-situ growth of GaSb nanowires”
Dr. Ruben Seoane Souto, Solid State Physics: “Andreev bound states in the continuum”
Dr. Tania Lima, Biochemistry and Structural Biology: “The role of nanoparticle size in Dectin-1 protein activation: a nano-approach to control host deleterious inflammation”
Linnéa Jönsson, Solid State Physics, and Linnea Lindh, Chemical Physics: “Tailored Metal Oxide Nanoparticles for improved solar cell electron extraction”
Poster awards
Life Science & Nano
Jennifer Gilbert, Division of Physical Chemistry: “Lipid nanoparticles using cationic ionisable lipids: Effect of cargo on structure”
Quantum Physics and Photons
Morten Ib Kjӕrgaard Munk, Mathematical Physics: “Coherence improvements in a double quantum dot with a third-order sweet spot”
Materials & Manufacturing and Semiconductor Technology
Yen-Po Liu, Synchrotron radiation research: “Combined light excitation and scanning gate microscopy on heterojunction nanowire device”
Special unicorn prize
Simon Wozny, Solid State Physics: “Transport in Quantum Dots: Current, Noise and Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations”