VENI Grant for Rutger Hermsen (BN) Vlad Pribiag (QN) and Amelia Barreiro (QN)
20 October 2011 by M&C
No less than twelve talented young researchers from Delft have been awarded a Veni grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The grants will enable them to spend three years developing ideas and conducting research. The candidates were selected on the basis of their striking talent for carrying out innovative scientific research. The subsidy amounts to a maximum of €250,000 per researcher.
Applied Science
Of the twelve subsidies, three have been allocated to researchers of the faculty of Applied Sciences. Besides the earlier-allocated VENI grant for Vlad Pribiag (QN/QT), Rutger Hermsen (BN/Cees Dekker Lab) and Amelia Barreiro (QN/QT) have also each been allocated a grant under this Innovational Research Incentives Scheme.
Nanowire Qubits
TU Delft has recently demonstrated a quantum bit that is located in a semiconducting nanowire and that can be relatively easily worked with. This is important because quantum bits are the basic elements of a possible future super-fast quantum computer. In his VENI research on Nanowire Qubits, Vlad Pribiag (1980) wants to use this type of quantum bit to show and control the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. This field is still unexplored in semiconducting nanostructures.
Evolution in heterogeneous environments
Wherever they may be, organisms always adapt to their surroundings, and have spread to all corners of the world. It is therefore likely that spatial aspects are important to biological evolution. Nonetheless, most mathematical models of evolution fail to address this perspective. With his Veni research, Rutger Hermsen (1978) wants to understand how a heterogeneous environment can influence or accelerate evolutionary processes.
Twelve minus one
Amelia Barreiro’s research proposal, Quantum Transport in Novel Heterogeneous Layered Materials also made the grade. However, Amelia Barreiro had already accepted a prestigious Catalan ‘Beatriu de Pinos’ grant. She will therefore turn down the Veni grant.
Read the full article at the homepage of Delft University of Technology.
