Three Zernike researchers receive funding from "FOM-projectruimte"

Bart van Wees, Patrick Onck and George Palasantzas belong to the lucky few who successfully applied for FOM-projectruimte. FOM-projectruimte is a funding tool that aims to stimulate groundbreaking fundamental research projects in physics with high scientific, industrial or societal relevance. In the current round 4.3 million Euro were awarded to ten research projects, three of which from the Zernike Institute:

• Biomimetic nanopores ‐ resolving the puzzling selectivity of the nuclear pore complex
  Prof.dr.ir. Patrick Onck (RUG) en prof.dr. Cees Dekker (TUD)
  
• Bonding materials with Casimir forces
  Prof.dr. Georgios Palasantzas (RUG)
  
• Spin‐valleytronics in two‐dimensional Van der Waals materials: Uniting electronic spin, valley and charge with photonic chirality
  Prof.dr.ir Bart van Wees (RUG)
  

• Magnetization dynamics with spin‐polarized supercurrents
  Prof.dr. Jan Aarts (LEI)
• Capturing reaction kinetics on a diffusing nanoparticle
  Dr. Sanli Faez (UU)
• Splitting and tipping the electron
  Dr. Lars Fritz (UU)
• Steering quantum spin interactions with light
  Dr. Alexey Kimel (RU)
• Molecular billiards in slow motion: when molecules stick together
  Dr. Bas van de Meerakker (RU)
• Functionalized organic‐metal (FOM) networks: a platform for designing Dirac fermions
  Dr. Ingmar Swart (UU) en prof.dr. Cristiane de Morais Smith (UU)
• Living at the edge: Quantum spin Hall effect in germanene
  Prof.dr.ir. Harold Zandvliet (UT)
  

FOM press release