I graduated with a degree in Electronics Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2024 and am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at ETH, while also being part of the Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces group as a Researcher Guest.

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I come from a small town on the western coast of Denmark and moved to Copenhagen to pursue a degree in materials science and solar energy engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). At DTU, I also obtained my PhD and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in optoelectronic semiconductor physics, particularly focusing on novel materials for use in advanced photovoltaic cell concepts.
My main scientific interests are in energy materials, defect physics, and combinatorial/high-throughput materials discovery at the interface between computational and experimental science.
At Empa, I will join the Nanomaterials Spectroscopy and Imaging group within the Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Lab. I will be working with Mirjana Dimitrievska on mapping the synthesis-structure-function relations of inorganic chalcogenide perovskites, which are considered promising for the next generation of solar cells.

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Grown up in Southern Italy, I studied Physics Engineering at Politecnico di Torino and Nanotechnologies for ICTs in a joint program among Politecnico di Torino, Grenoble-INP and EPFL, completing my master thesis about materials characterization for the future generations of LIGO mirrors at Stanford University.
I joined the Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces lab under Professor Mickael L. Perrin’s supervision to work on device integration of Graphene Nanoribbons and to study and exploit their unique physical properties.

Hi, my name is Tingyuan Wang and I am a Materials science and engineering master student at EPFL. In the next six months at Empa, I will try to synthesize ultra-long graphene nanoribbons for device applications through chemical vapor deposition (CVD). I am especially interested in nanoelectronics and microfabrication. Luckily, I can go deeper into this area at Empa for my Master project.

I am originally from Bern and came to Zürich to study food science at ETH. Since I was interested in the more fundamental aspects of biopolymers and soft materials, I joined the Cellulose & Wood Material Laboratory at Empa for a PhD. I studied the self-assembly of proteins into amyloid fibrils and their interactions with nanocellulose to form antimicrobial biocomposites that can be used as wound care materials. I was mostly using atomic force microscopy and different spectroscopy techniques, which will also help me during my time in Peter Nirmalraj's group doing research on the aggregation of proteins involved in Alzheimer's disease and their detection in clinical samples. 

Originally from Nottingham in the UK, I lived in Singapore for the past 5 years where I completed my PhD in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, studying genetic susceptibility to neurological diseases and disorders, and where I also worked for a year in healthcare consulting.
I have joined the Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Laboratory in EMPA to continue researching as a Postdoc for 3 years, where I will be investigating the chemical identity of blood based markers linked to neurodegenerative diseases with Peter Nirmalraj.

I am an electronic engineer originally from Italy. I earned my PhD from the University of Cagliari, Italy, and subsequently, I worked at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy. More recently, I worked as a visiting researcher at Columbia University in New York City, NY, USA, and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA, USA, as part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie RISE Action "SONAR H2020." Currently, I am the recipient of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship "2DTWIST," which involves collaboration between the Functional Nanosystems group at the Italian Institute of Technology and the Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA).

My research focuses on investigating low-dimensional materials, encompassing their characterization and their application in the fields of electronics and photonics. Under the "2DTWIST" project, my goal is to develop a technique that enables active, dynamic, and automated control of Moiré geometry in 2D heterostructures through electrostatic actuation.

I studied for my Bachelor in Physics at UAM in Madrid, during which I did an internship at Ciemat about graphene-based materials for hydrogen storage, and I joined the Condensed Matter Physics department of the university for the last year to work on thermoelectric properties of single-molecule junctions. After my master's in nanophysics, I moved to TUDelft for a research stay to work on the fabrication and characterization of layered superconducting materials-based devices for quantum technologies. Then I moved back to Madrid to start my PhD at IFIMAC and ICMM-CSIC about electric and heat transport, thermoelectricity and optoelectronics in molecular junctions and atomically thin crystals.

Here at Empa, I will work in the Quantum Devices group, part of the Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Lab, on electroluminescence from graphene nanoribbon-based field effect transistors and quantum dots in twisted bilayer graphene.