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Scientists have a lot to share. Many exciting stories to tell. On being a physicist. How do they perceive their world. Why are they doing what they are doing. Moments of satisfaction. Fulfillment. Frustration. Challenges. And of course, many science-related discussions. Thoughts on methodology. Theoretical debates. Opinions on where quantum science is heading.
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Physics is not only a “boy thing” – an interview with Corinna Kollath
Physics is not only a "boy thing" - an interview with Corinna Kollath Corinna, it's almost 10 years now that you became professor for Theoretical Quantum Physics at the University of Bonn. How has it been? I hardly notice that it is almost 10 years, since it...
Spinning out of Science – A personal view on technology transfer and starting your own business
The great thing is that our technology works simultaneously in research and in practice. Any progress we make in development is directly used for basic research in the laboratory next door.We did it! A few weeks ago, we officially established Midel Photonics GmbH – a...
Mari Gachechiladze now appointed associate professor at TU Darmstadt
Mariami (to many of us just known as Mari) joined our cluster in its first year and worked in the group of David Gross at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Cologne for 3 years. She finished her PhD studies at the Universities of Siegen and Innsbruck following up...
On being a cook and a detective in the lab
The Topological Matter Laboratory Cologne When people hear the term “quantum computer”, the pictures which come to mind first are probably the golden chandelier-like inside of a dilution refrigerator with all its cables and tubes or a photo of an actual computer chip....
But what is it that you actually do? ~ My thoughts on science management
When I talk to people from different fields about my job, the variety of reactions often surprises me – ranging from the always fun “But what is it that you actually do?” (which I occasionally even hear from people who have spent their whole life in Academia) to...
Fabrication map Forschungszentrum Jülich
Building on the added value of having a multi-site cluster, the idea of creating a hub for available infrastructure within our ML4Q framework emerged and a first fabrication map for the Aachen site was posted last November. Here, we present an overview of fabrication...
My first publication experience – two PhD students, two stories
Hi, my name is Marvin Marco Jansen. I am working as a PhD student at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. My work focuses on the fabrication of single-photon sources in nanowires. This is one of the projects inside the ML4Q cluster and aims to create a...
Phyphox: Seeing the world through your phone’s sensors
Have you heard of the app phyphox? If you have school age children or are a teacher, you probably have. If not, you might have stumbled onto it as a nice gadget on a tech blog. At 1.5 million overall installations, it is far from being in the league of Facebook,...
Physics in the time of COVID-19
It was inevitable... ... the scent of acetone always reminded Dr. Christian Dickel of the frustrations of nanofabrication. How does Covid-19 and the measures to mitigate the pandemic influence the life of physicists? Let’s start from what “normal” people think...