Project Partners
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Coordinator: Prof. Nicolás Agraït
nicolas.agrait at uam.es
Prof. Nicolás Agraït has been full professor in Physics at the Univ Autonoma Madrid (UAM) since 2006 and associated senior researcher of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience IMDEA-nanoscience since 2008. He has developed state-of-the-art scanning probe techniques for studying transport in the nanoscale and performed pioneering studies of transport in nanocontacts, atomic contacts, freely-suspended atomic wires and single-molecule junctions, including mechanical properties, electron-phonon interaction, and thermopower, using scanning probe techniques.
For recent papers see https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=rE0betIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Dr. Laura Rincón-García received her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) in 2013 and her Master’s degree in Condensed Matter Physics and Nanophysics from the same university in 2014. For her BS and MS degrees, she joined the group of Prof. Nicolás Agraït where she also continued for her PhD degree with a FPU scholarship from the Spanish Government. Her research interests are focused on electrical and thermal transport in nanoscale systems such as molecular and atomic junctions.
Irene Gonzalez Martin obtained a MSc. in Molecular Biology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Afterwards, at the Intitut Européen de Chimie et Biologie-Université Bordeaux 1 (France), she was involved in several academic and industrial projects. Then she moved to the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical sector at Crucell Holland B.V. (The Netherlands). At Ateknea Solutions Europe she worked first as Innovation Manager and Scientific coordinator, then as Director of the EU projects department. In 2014 she joined the Food and Environment Research Agency (UK) as Technology Development Manager to develop innovative technologies and solutions in response to strategic challenges. Since December 2017 she works as EU project Manager and advisor at the UAM (Spain).
Juan Hurtado Gallego obtained a Physics degree in 2017 and completed a master in Physics of Condensed Matter and Biological Systems afterwards, in 2018, both of them at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
He is currently working on a PhD on the electrical and thermal transport through molecular junctions under the supervision of Nicolás Agraït.
Rubén López Nebreda obtained a Physics degree in 2017 and completed a master in Physics of Condensed Matter and Biological Systems afterwards, in 2018, both of them at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
He is currently working on a PhD on the electrical and thermal transport through molecular junctions under the supervision of Nicolás Agraït.
Lancaster University (United Kingdom)
PI: Prof. Colin J. Lambert
c.lambert at lancaster.ac.uk
Prof. Colin Lambert has developed new concepts and methodologies in the theory of molecular-scale electronics, including innovative strategies for demonstrating, controlling and exploiting quantum interference.
He aims to demonstrate that room-temperature electron and phonon quantum interference effects can be controlled in single molecules and exploited in the design of self-assembled molecular arrays.
For recent papers, see https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=55vf-xgAAAAJ&hl=en
Dr. Iain Grace is a senior research associate in the theory of molecular scale transport group at Lancaster University. He specialises in developing numerical models which aims to guide the design of molecular scale materials
Dr. Hatef Sadeghi is a Leverhulme Fellow at Lancaster University and a member of the Materials Science Institute MSI and the theory of molecular-scale transport research group since Oct. 2011. His main research area is theoretical nano and molecular electronics. He is co-licence holder, co-author and manager of a next generation quantum transport simulation tool, Gollum. He was awarded the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship in June 2017.
Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
PI: Prof. Herre S.J. van der Zant
h.s.j.vanderzant at tudelft.nl
Prof. Dr. H.S.J. Van der Zant is a full professor since 2006 at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology.
He has a strong background in single-molecule conductance measurements and in his laboratory several techniques have been developed for making nanogaps and introducing molecules in them. In particular, three-terminal molecular junctions with different molecules have been fabricated and studied with a special emphasis on the interplay between quantum transport and their mechanical/magnetic properties.
Dr. Maria El Abbassi got her master in fundamental physics in 2014 from the Ecole Normale Superieure. She joined the group of Prof. Dr. Michel Calame in 2014 as a PhD student on the European project MOLESCO. During her thesis she worked on the characterization of graphene-based molecular junctions.
After obtaining her PhD, she joined the group of Prof. Dr. Herre Van der Zant as a postdoc on the QuIET project.
Pascal Gehring is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the department of Quantum Nanoscience, TU Delft. He obtained his PhD from the EPFL (Switzerland) in collaboration with the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research (Germany). His main fields of expertise are experimental single-molecule electronics, scanning thermal microscopy, mesoscopic transport physics, graphene and 2D materials, and topological insulators. His current research focus is on thermoelectric studies of single molecular systems using novel three-terminal devices.
University of Durham (United Kingdom)
PI: Prof. Martin R. Bryce
m.r.bryce at durham.ac.uk
Prof. Martin Bryce has been a full professor at Durham University (United Kingdom) since 1995. His expertise is in the synthesis and characterisation of functional organic/organometallic molecular and polymeric materials for use as active components in optoelectronic devices, molecular wires, switches, sensors and information storage systems.
Gunnar Olsen is currently undertaking a PostDoc with Martin R. Bryce at Durham University (2018). He was PostDoc with Jan O. Jeppesen University of Southern Denmark (2016-2018). He obtained a PhD in Chemistry from Technical University of Denmark in 2016 and a MSc in Chemistry from University of Southern Denmark in 2012. Five research articles in international peer-reviewed journals with 40 citations.
IBM-Zurich (Switzerland)
PI: Dr. Bernd Gotsmann
bgo at zurich.ibm.com
Dr. Bernd Gotsmann is a Research Staff Member in the Nanoscale Devices & Materials group of the Science & Technology department at IBM Research – Zurich.
His research is focused on nanoscale electronics with applications in thermal transport, thermoelectricity, tribology, molecular electronics and nanomechanics.
Bernd Gotsmann studied Physics at the University of Muenster, Germany, and the University of York, UK. After receiving his PhD he joined IBM in 2001 as a postdoctoral fellow and became a Research Staff Member in 2006. Since 2016 he is a member of the Swiss National Research Council.
Andrea Gemma is a Pre-doctoral researcher in the Materials Integration & Nanoscale Devices (MIND) Group of the Science & Technology department at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich.
He received his B. Sc. degree in Physics Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and his M.Sc. degree in Nanotechnologies for ICTs from Politecnico di Torino, EPFL (Lausanne) and INP (Grenoble).
Basel University (Switzerland)
PI: Prof. Marcel Mayor
marcel.mayor at unibas.ch
Prof. Marcel Mayor is professor of chemistry at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and leader of a research group in the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany). After defending his PhD in Bern (Switzerland) he moved to Strasbourg (France) as postdoctoral fellow. In 1998 he was engaged in the INT of the Research Center Karlsruhe (Germany). In 2005 he was appointed as associate professor of the University of Basel, where he became a full professor in 2011. Since 2011 he is also engaged as adjunct professor at the Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou (China). His research interests are often interdisciplinary, but always focused on tailor-made molecular architectures. Current research areas are molecular devices, single molecule electronics, function by molecular design, functional materials and supramolecular architectures.
Dr. Almudena Gallego studied chemistry at Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) where she also obtained her master degree and defended her PhD thesis in the field of “Electronic Coordination Polymers”.
In October of 2013, Almudena joined the group of Professor Marcel Mayor at Basel University, where since then she is involved in different projects with focused on the synthesis of functional materials for nanoelectronics.
Ksenia Reznikova studied chemistry at University of Basel (Switzerland) where she also obtained a master degree in chemistry. In April 2018, she defended her master thesis with the title “Tailor-made molecular rods for graphene junctions” in the group of Prof. Marcel Mayor. Now, Ksenia continues working on the project as part of her PhD
EMPA (Switzerland)
PI: Dr. Michel Calame
michel.calame at empa.ch
Dr. Michel Calame is head of the laboratory Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces at Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) and Professor of Nanoscience (University of Basel). His expertise is in nano- and molecular scale electronics.
The laboratory investigates the fundamental opto-electrical and thermal transport properties of hybrid nanoscale devices and the implementation of such devices for biochemical sensing purposes.
Dr. Davide Beretta received his PhD in Physics from Politecnico di Milano in 2016. He was then appointed as postdoctoral researcher at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, where he worked on organic electronics, then as big data scientist at RSE S.p.A, where he worked on machine learning methods for electric load forecasts, and finally as postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Riverside, where he worked on non-thermal plasmas for heterogeneous catalysis and nanoparticles synthesis. In June 2019 he has joined Calame's team at Empa. During his career, he has developed state-of-the-art instruments for the thermoelectric characterization of materials and devices, and demonstrated deep expertise in thermoelectric metrology and materials characterization.
Oliver Braun studied Physics at the University of Basel. He conducted his Masterthesis “thermoelectric effects in graphene based devices” in the group of Prof. Calame. Oliver started a PhD at Empa in December 2016, where he continues the research he started during his Masters and expands it to nanoscale devices in general.
His research interests are besides thermoelectricity at the nanoscale the understanding of heat transport in nanostructures.
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