Invited speakers

Speakers that have accepted to participate:

Willi Auwärter (TU München)

The research focus of Willi Auwärter lies on the creation of nanoscale model systems on atomically tailored surfaces, enabling the study and control of single-molecule processes as well as the self-assembly of supramolecular structures. This approach includes the use of ultra-thin textured layers of boron nitride as a substrate. The studies are inspired by the chemistry of life – which shows how functionally versatile a single set of molecular building blocks can be – and oriented toward innovation in nanotechnology.

Professor Auwärter studied physics at the University of Zurich (1993-1999), where he received his PhD in 2003. Subsequently he worked as postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He has been conducting research at TUM since 2007. In 2015, he was appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor and received a Heisenberg Professorship from the DFG. In 2020, he was promoted to Associate Professor (W3).

Gertjan van Baarle (Leiden Probe Microscopy B.V.)

Gertjan van Baarle is the managing director of LSI and has over a decade of experience in succesfull leading a high- tech SME, scanning probe microscopy and low temperature instrumentation and has a published several articles. During his PHD at Leiden University, he designed and built a 300mK STM compatible with UHV and high magnetic fields. He joined LSI from the start, being responsible for all the scientific- and business-developments in the company.

Semonti Bhattacharyya (Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University)

Dr. Semonti Bhattacharyya joined the Leiden Institute of Physics in July 2022 as an Assistant Professor. In 2016, she completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (India). After a short postdoc at IISc, she moved to Monash University, Melbourne (Australia) to work as a postdoc in 2017. In 2019, she was awarded a “Women in FLEET fellowship” from the ARC centre of excellence for future low energy electronics technology (FLEET).

As an experimental physicist Semonti’s research interest focuses on quantum transport measurements in quantum materials such as graphene, van der Waals heterostructures, and topological insulators. Her research group at Leiden will investigate the fabrication techniques of novel van der Waals heterostructures, and electrical transport measurements in them as a function of twist angle and pressure.

Thomas Heine (TU Dresden)

Thomas Heine, FRSC, MAE (PhD 1999, venia legendi 2006 TU Dresden) started his research group in 2008 at Jacobs University Bremen, moved in 2015 to University of Leipzig and 2018 to his current position as chair professor of theoretical chemistry at TU Dresden. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher with more than 390 peer-reviewed articles, an h-index of 92 (ISI) / 105 (Google Scholar). Prof. Heine is elected member of the Review Board of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). He coordinates DFG Priority Program PP 2244 “2D Materials: Physics of van der Waals [hetero]structures”, the DFG Researcher Training Group RTG 2861 “Planar Carbon Lattices”, and the Marie S. Curie European Training Network “2Exciting”.

Bárbara Canto (AMO GmbH)

Dr. Bárbara Canto (female, Senior Scientist) has been working at AMO GmbH as a Senior Scientist since March 2022. She has been working in the field of graphene since 2011. Her background includes a PhD in Sciences (experimental Physics) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2014) – Porto Alegre, Brazil and a postdoctoral position in Microelectronics at the same University (2015-2108). She moved to Germany in 2018 with a Marie-Curie Project to work at AMO GmbH where she stayed until 2020. After this she took a position as a Senior Scientist in Wuppertal University until returning to AMO GmbH in March 2022. She has been working in experimental physics on defect engineering and tunnel barrier manufacturing for graphene-based devices. Dr. Canto has consolidated experience in experimental techniques, in particular thin film growth, process integration and characterization of graphene and related two-dimensional materials. She participated in Graphene Flagship projects like Graphene Core 3 and 2D-EPL leading the wafer scale graphene fabrication processes at AMO. Her current research interests include small and wafer-scale processing of two-dimensional materials, device fabrication and optimization using 2D materials, defect engineering of 2D materials, characterization and analysis of the devices with 2D materials.

Minghao Yu (TU Dresden)

Dr. Minghao Yu is research group leader at Technische Universität Dresden. He received his doctoral degree in Material Physics and Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University in June 2017. He joined Technische Universität Dresden as a postdoctoral researcher under the support of Humboldt Research Fellowship in November 2017. In March 2019, he was appointed as a research group leader of the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Technische Universität Dresden.

Antonija Grubišić Čabo (University of Groningen)

Antonija Grubisic-Cabo is an Assistant Professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials (Faculty of Science and Engineering) of the University of Groningen. She is the principal investigator (PI) of the research group "Experimental nanophysics with advanced spectroscopic and structural analysis methods", studying electronic and structural properties of nanomaterials in and out of equilibrium. Her main research interests are two-dimensional (2D) and quantum materials, such as graphene, 2D transition metal dichalcogenides, magnetic topological insulators and Weyl and Dirac semimetals. Antonija Grubisic-Cabo is an experienced synchrotron and free-electron laser user, and has extensive experience with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), time-resolved ARPES and scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy.