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Excellence Awards

A QCQT excellence award is offered once a year by the QCQT PhD school. PIs can nominate candidates in recognition of an outstanding achievement in research. Nominees need to be registered members of the PhD school. The award consists of an award certificate from the PhD school, listing on the QCQT page, plus a monetary prize. Awardees should present their work in the QCQT lunch seminar.

QCQT Excellence Awardees 2024

Arianna Nigro

Arianna Nigro

Arianna Nigro from the research group of Prof. Ilaria Zardo receives a QCQT 2024 Excellence Award in recognition of her outstanding work “High quality Ge layers for Ge/SiGe quantum well heterostructures using chemical vapor deposition” and “Demonstration of microwave resonators and double quantum dots on optimised reverse graded Ge/SiGe heterostructures”

Julian Arnold

Julian Arnold

Julian Arnold from the research group of Prof. Christoph Bruder receives a QCQT 2024 Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding work “Replacing Neural Networks by Optimal Analytical Predictors for the Detection of Phase Transitions” and “Mapping Out Phase Diagrams with Generative Classifiers”

 

Kacper Prech

Kacper Prech

Kacper Prech from the research group of Prof. Patrick Potts receives a QCQT 2024 Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding work “Quantum Fluctuation Theorem for Arbitrary Measurement and Feedback Schemes”

 

 

Märta Tschudin

Märta Tschudin

Märta Tschudin from the research group of Prof. Patrick Maletinsky receives a QCQT 2024 Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding work “Imaging nanomagnetism and magnetic phase transitions in atomically thin CrSBr“.

 

QCQT Excellence Awardees 2023

QCQT Excellence Awardees 2022

QCQT Excellence Awardees 2021

QCQT Excellence Awardees 2019

Travel Support

Forrer

Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven NL (Jun-Aug 2023)

Nicolas Forrer

In my third year of my PhD I was offered the possibility to go abroad for a research stay at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the south of the Netherlands. There I worked under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Erik Bakkers in the growth of hexagonal SiGe branches with the final goal of realizing optical quantum dots. Working there gave me insights into other growth techniques using metal-organic precursors, growth of hexagonal III-V nanowires, branch growth from different materials and as well doping of wire branches. Getting to know these new approaches in an advanced cleanroom and the use of an aberration corrected TEM completed my stay.
After settling in, I started to explore the city and to dive into the life of an international student. Eindhoven, even being the 5th biggest city in the Netherlands, still manages to keep a certain small city charm and a lot of very nice neighbourhoods, restaurants and bars. Having a bike here is a must and the main transportation to get around the city. I was impressed by the size of the campus of the university, but also how folksy the Dutch people are. This research stay made it certainly possible to extend my research expertise and to work in an international environment outside of Switzerland. I’m very thankful for the financial support from both the NCCR SPIN International mobility grant and the QCQT travel grant, as well to Prof. Dr. Ilaria Zardo from the University of Basel and Prof. Dr. Erik Bakkers from the University of Technology for making this research stay even possible.

Raciti

International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (August 2022)

Grazia Raciti

The 27th International conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS) took place in Long Beach (California) from August 14 to August 19 2022. The conference had the aim to bring together researchers from different fields to discuss the most recent progress and ideas in Raman spectroscopy.

As a PhD student, working on the implementation of an ultrafast Raman spectroscopy setup, this conference was particularly fruitful. The wide offer of both theoretical and experimental talks, allowed me to learn more about various aspects of this field. I had many opportunities to engage with different researchers on an international scale, from lunch breaks to the poster sessions. Regarding the latter, I had the chance to present my work on one of the conference poster sessions. I enjoyed many stimulating discussions about some challenges I am facing in my work. Those interactions were very beneficial since I had the opportunity to talk with researchers who are working on similar subjects.

Beyond the certainly fruitful scientific aspect, it was also very fun to attend to one of the conference social activities: the whale watching. It was really exciting to see whales for the first time in my life.

Finally, I would like to thank my professor Ilaria Zardo for giving me the opportunity to participate to this conference and all the founding that supported me, in particular the QCQT (Quantum Computer and Quantum Technology) school of the University of Basel.

Tschudin

Cambridge/Boston (Jun-Dez 2019)

Märta Tschudin

At the beginning of my PhD studies I had the opportunity to leave for a study exchange at the MIT in Cambridge/Boston. I joined the Group of Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, where I worked on the fabrication of two-dimensional, magnetic samples. In the lab I got to know many new fabrication and measurement techniques and I also had the chance to gain insight into other American Universities in the Boston area (Harvard for example allows MIT students to work in their cleanroom). I received precious guidance for fabricating new 2D samples and at the end of my stay, I could take several samples with me to be measured in Basel.
I enjoyed living in Cambridge and being immersed into its international student life. Cambridge has a very lively atmosphere and offers many different places to explore (even by bike!). I was generally fascinated by the numerous scientific events taking place in the greater Boston area, ranging from evening lectures in Museums and science slams in cafes to open air theatre plays in the heart of Boston.
This exchange has certainly formed an important part of my PhD and I am very grateful for the financial support from both the Basel QCQT PhD School and the Quantumsensing Group of Prof. Patrick Maletinsky from the University of Basel.

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