1 million for Leiden nanophysics

The Fundamental Materials Research Foundation (FOM) is starting a large-scale research programme in the field of atomic and molecular Physics. Leiden University is acting as chair of the consortium of eight research groups at five universities. A sum of 3.6 million euro is available for the whole programme. One million of this will go to the research groups of Prof. Dr Jan van Ruitenbeek and Prof. Dr Michel Orrit of the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION). The funds are intended to appoint three PhD candidates and one post-doc and for material investments. Van Ruitenbeek has been appointed as programme leader; he is responsible for the scientific progress and financial expenditure within the whole programme, which, in addition to Leiden, is being carried out at the universities of Groningen, Delft, Nijmegen and Twente. Read more