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Junior Research Groups at IFW

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

Leibniz Junior Research Group
Quantum Transport in Quasi-two-dimensional Magnetic Systems
2025-2029
Head: Dr. Shu Zhang

ERC Starting Grant
"Tellurium-free Thermoelectric Technology for Near-room-temperature Applications
2024-2028
Head: Dr. Ran He

BMBF-Nachwuchswettbewerb NanoMatFutur
GreenDots: Environmentally-Friendly Nanocrystalline Materials for Optoelectronic Applications
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

Emmy Noether Research Group
Nano-Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Quantum Matter
2018-2025
Head: Dr. Aliaksei Charnukha

Joint IFW-HZB Junior Research Group
Functional quantum materials
2018-2025
Head: Dr. Alexander Fedorov

Expired Junior Groups

ERC Starting Grant
„Micro-GIFT“ – Microrobotic Gamete/Zygote IntraFallopian Transfer
2019-2024
Head: Dr. Mariana Medina-Sánchez (now Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC NanoGUNE, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain)

Leibniz Junior Research Group
Computational methods for correlated materials
2019-2024
Head: Dr. Oleg Janson

IFW Junior Research Group
Superconducting Nanodevices
2019-2024
Head: Dr. Nicola Poccia (Now Professor at University of Naples Federico II and Group leader of the Supperpuddles Lab at IFW)

Junior Professorship with TU Dresden
Exploratory Synthesis of Quantum Materials
2019-2023
Head: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anna Isaeva (now Professor for Quantum Materials at TU Dortmund)

Temp. Professorship with TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Materials functionalization
2019-2022
Head: Prof. Dr. Julia Hufenbach (now W2 Professor at TU BA Freibarg and research group leader at IFW)

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 (now W2 Professor for Electron Opticics at TU Dresden and research group leader at IFW)

Leibniz Junior Research Group
Compliant Magnetosensory Systems: Enabling magnetic functionalities for e-skins, soft robots and healthcare
2018-2022
Head: Dr. Michael Melzer

ERC Starting Grant
Elementary quantum dot networks enabled by on-chip nano-optomechanical systems - QD-NOMS
2017 – 2020
Head: Prof. Dr. Fei Ding (now Professor at Univ. Hannover)

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

ERC Consolidator Grant
Electronic Order, Magnetism, and Unconventional Superconductivity probed in Real-Space
2015-2020
Head: Dr. Christian Hess (now Professor at Bergische Universität Wuppertal)