IFW promotes the early independency of excellent young researchers. Junior research groups are funded by ERC, DFG, Leibniz and own IFW ressources.

BMBF Nachwuchswettbewerb NanoMatFutur
GreenDots: Umweltfreundliche Nanokristall-Materialien für Optoelektronische Anwendungen
2022-2027
Head: Dr. Fabian Paulus

Leibniz Junior Research Group
HELICAL: 2D Heterostructures for Fermionic and Bosonic Topological Phase
2021-2025
Head: Dr. Louis Veyrat

ERC Consolidator Grant
MATTER "MAcroscopic quantum transport maTERials by nanoparticle processing"
2020-2024
Head: Dr. Gabi Schierning

ERC Starting Grant
„Micro-GIFT“ – Microrobotic Gamete/Zygote IntraFallopian Transfer
2019-2024
Head: Dr. Mariana Medina-Sánchez

Junior Professorship with TU Dresden
Exploratory Synthesis of Quantum Materials
2019-2023
Head: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anna Isaeva

Temp. Professorship with TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Materials functionalization
2019-2024
Head: Prof. Dr. Julia Hufenbach

Emmy Noether Research Group
Nano-Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Quantum Matter
2018-2023
Head: Dr. Aliaksei Charnukha

Leibniz Junior Research Group
Computational methods for correlated materials
2019-2023
Head: Dr. Oleg Janson

Joint IFW-BESSY Junior Research Group
Functional quantum materials
2018-2022
Head: Dr. Alexander Fedorov

IFW Junior Research Group
Theory of topological phases of matter
2017-2022
Head: Dr. Cosma Fulga

ERC Starting Grant
Nanoscale Materials: Revealing Electromagnetic and Deformation Fields, Chemical Composition and Quantum States at Atomic Resolution - ATOM
2017 – 2021
Head: Dr. Axel Lubk

ERC Consolidator Grant
Electronic Order, Magnetism, and Unconventional Superconductivity probed in Real-Space
2015-2020
Head: Dr. Christian Hess

ERC Consolidator Grant
Surface-grafted metallofullerene molecular magnets with controllable alignment of magnetic moments
2015-2020
Head: Dr. Alexey Popov