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Tommaso Bagni received the Jan Evetts Award 2024

Tommaso BAGNI, a former postdoc in the Group of Applied Superconductivity has been awarded the 1st prize at the 2024 Jan Evetts Award. The winners were announced at the ASC 2024 conference.

Advancing superconductor technology for high-field applications: current state and emerging trends

Prof. Carmine Senatore was invited to give a plenary lecture entitled “Advancing Superconductor Technology for High-Field Applications: Current State and Emerging Trends” at the International Cryogenic Engineering Conference and International Cryogenic Materials Conference, ICEC29-ICMC 2024.

Giacomo Sala obtains a SNSF Ambizione fellowship

Dr. Giacomo Sala, in the group of Andrea Caviglia, has received a highly competitive SNSF Ambizione fellowship. Ambizione grants are aimed at early career researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution.

Giulia Venditti won a SNSF postdoctoral fellowship

Giulia Venditti, in the group of Louk Rademaker obtains a highly competitive SNSF postdoctoral fellowship. The main aim of her project Xtra-Ordinary Vortices (XVORTEX) is to study the intertwining of topological defects and the topology of the electronic degrees of freedom in novel 2D systems.

Javier Taboada Gutierrez obtains a SNSF postdoctoral fellowship

Javier Taboada Gutierrez, in the group of Alexey Kuzmenko has received a highly competitive SNSF postdoctoral fellowship. In his proposal, he investigates polariton-Landau level coupling in layered structures to pioneer nano-opto-magnetic tools for precise light manipulation at the nanoscale. The ...

Antoine Georges international member of the National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Antoine Georges who has been elected an international member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The ceremony took place on April 26th, 2024 during the 161th NAS Annual meeting in Washington DC.

Clémentine Thibault received the “Best Presentation award” at the IWOE29

Clémentine Thibault, PhD in the UNIGE’s group of Oxides Interfaces Physics received the “Best Presentation award”  for her poster : “Coupling oxygen octahedra rotation in orthorhombic perovskite heterostructures: The LaVO3/DyScO3 case” at the International Workshop on Oxide...

Francesco Lonardo received the Best Student Award at the MT-28 conference

Francesco Lonardo, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity was one of the recipients of the Best Student Award at the 28th International Magnet Technology Conference (MT-28). The work of Francesco on the “Influence of the heat treatment on the layer-JC of internal-Sn Nb3Sn wires...

Gianmarco Bovone – 2023 recipient of the Jan Evetts Award

Gianmarco Bovone, Postdoc in the UNIGE's group of Applied Superconductivity is one of the three recipients of the 2023 Jan Evetts Award at the EUCAS 2023 conference. This award recognizes excellent work published in Superconductivity Science and Technology by early career researchers. Gianmarco...

Carlota Pereira – 2023 recipient of the IEEE CSC Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied Superconductivity

Carlota Pereira Carlos, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity at UNIGE with a position funded by CERN, is one of the recipients of the 2022 IEEE CSC Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied Superconductivity, with her research on the development of high-performance Nb thin film...

Carmine Senatore maps superconductivity technologies for the World Economic Forum

Professor at the Faculty of Science, Carmine Senatore is the first UNIGE expert to collaborate with the World Economic Forum on a "transformation map". His mission: to raise the profile of superconducting technologies in economic and political circles.

Welcome to Ajit Srivastava, Associate Professor

Welcome to Prof. Ajit Srivastava who has joined the DQMP as an Associate Professor since July 1st, 2023. 

Jérémie Teyssier and Volodymyr Multian received an Innogap grant

For their project "Non-polarizing optical module", Jérémie Teyssier and Volodymyr Multian received an Innogap grant from UNITEC, UNIGE. They developed an optical module that can replace a beam splitter or a dichroic mirror while preserving the polarization state of the transmitted and reflected...

Tejas Singar received the best poster prize at the SNS2022 conference

Fabian von Rohr received the 2022 Werner Prize

Prof. Fabian O. von Rohr is the 2022 winner of the Werner Prize awarded by the Swiss Chemical Society. This award underlines the importance of the work of this young researcher and his laboratory, at the intersection of chemistry and physics, to discover new materials with quantum properties at...

Antoine Georges awarded the 2022 Feenberg Memorial Medal

Antoine Georges, professor at the DQMP, UNIGE and at the Collège de France, and director of the CCQ, Flatiron Institute has been awarded jointly with Gabriel Kotliar and Dieter Vollhardt the 2022 Feenberg Memorial Medal for established work that has significantly advanced the field of many-body ...

João Ferreira received the Cogito Grant with |Hop>

João Ferreira received the Cogito grant for his project "Teaching quantum with |Hop>".

Professor Andrea Caviglia awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant

Andrea Caviglia, full professor at the Department of Quantum Matter physics, UNIGE, has been recognized for the excellence of his work with an ERC Consolidator Grant providing 2 million euros over five years for the QED Materials project - Quantum Electrodynamics of materials.