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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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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...
When I was a high school student, Albert Einstein was my idol
I have had quite an unusual career path, and it may be interesting for others to know that such a path is possible. When I was a high school student, Albert Einstein was my idol. My dream was to become a physics professor (hopefully at the Princeton Advanced...
Fabrication Map RWTH Aachen
Fabrication is the first step in many projects, whether you do it yourself or have a fabrication team supporting you. The extent of realization of proposals invariably sees a bottleneck in experimental realization, often the limitation of fabrication capability....
Science, writing, science writing and PhD theses
We are trying to start a blog for this ML4Q Cluster and many people I tried to convince to write something asked me why I want to do this. Aren’t we all already overworked with our day job? Why should we blog about it on top of that? Or why not make podcasts or videos...