FOM awards 4.3 million euros to innovative Projectruimte research projects
The Executive Board of the FOM Foundation decided to award ten proposals in the FOM-Projectruimte. In this funding decision is accounted for the FOM preferential treatment for new permanent academic staff and tenure-trackers. The Projectruimte makes it possible to realise small-scale projects of fundamental research with an innovative character and a demonstrable scientific, industrial or societal urgency.
Project proposals awarded
The following research proposals have been awarded funding:
- 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) - Biomimetic nanopores ‐ resolving the puzzling selectivity of the nuclear pore complex
Prof.dr.ir. Patrick Onck (RUG) and Prof.dr. Cees Dekker (TUD) - Bonding materials with Casimir forces
Prof.dr. Georgios Palasantzas (RUG) - Functionalized organic‐metal (FOM) networks: a platform for designing Dirac fermions
Dr. Ingmar Swart (UU) and Prof.dr. Cristiane de Morais Smith (UU) - 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) - Living at the edge: Quantum spin Hall effect in germanene
Prof.dr.ir. Harold Zandvliet (UT)
About the FOM-Projectruimte
The Projectruimte is one of the grant instruments that FOM has to fund physics research. Researchers can submit proposals for the FOM-Projectruimte on a continuous basis. FOM considers the proposals in batches of 15 to 25 in the order they are received. In 2016, FOM has a budget of about 10 million euros for the Projectruimte, of which 3 million euros has been made available within the framework of the Sector Plan Physics and Chemistry.
Further information
For more information about the Projectruimte please see the website or please contact Mark Boneschanscher, +31 30 600 12 73.