Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GenerationNano (Nanoscience doctoral training to address societal challenges in materials science, biomedicine and energy)
Reporting period: 2020-09-01 to 2022-08-31
Nanoscience strongly contributes to several of the key enabling technologies (KETs) identified by the European Commission. Europe’s ability to harvest the full innovative and economical potential of nanotechnology critically relies on the availability of a highly trained workforce with the right set of skills.
To harness the full potential of available and future nanoscience and -technology, and to enable transition from laboratory to industrial production, a highly integrated approach is needed that reaches from the fundamental physics of nanoscale processes via basic materials science all the way to device design, characterization, and safety evaluation.
To harness the full potential of available and future nanoscience and -technology, and to enable transition from laboratory to industrial production, a highly integrated approach is needed that reaches from the fundamental physics of nanoscale processes via basic materials science all the way to device design, characterization, and safety evaluation.
GenerationNano recruited and trains in total 14 talented doctoral students (ESRs). The students were recruited in three calls that were widely announced. All applications were evaluated by evaluation panels involving independent experts in order to ensure unbiased evaluation that are exclusively based on merit and skill. High quality of the PhD education and career prospects is ensured by
- actively working with the personal career development plans (also called individual study plans)
- high quality supervision with mandatory courses for supervisors.
- excellence in research by offering high quality research projects.
- choice of secondments hosted by carefully selected partner organizations.
The GenerationNano project is managed and scientifically coordinated under the umbrella of NanoLund, the Center for Nanoscience at Lund University. The overarching goal of NanoLund is to use nanostructures to address important needs of society, namely the following Grand Challenges:
• A sustainable society based on renewable energy
• Precision medicine
• The information technology of the future
• A European industry based on nanomaterials
The research subjects: the 14 PhD students selected projects within materials science, safety and fundamental physics and chemistry of highly controlled, functional nanostructures, as well as their applications in fundamental science, in energy conversion, in electronics and in the life sciences. This includes the continuous development of advanced tools for the fabrication, characterization and theory of nanostructures, with a current focus on semiconductor nanowires.
- actively working with the personal career development plans (also called individual study plans)
- high quality supervision with mandatory courses for supervisors.
- excellence in research by offering high quality research projects.
- choice of secondments hosted by carefully selected partner organizations.
The GenerationNano project is managed and scientifically coordinated under the umbrella of NanoLund, the Center for Nanoscience at Lund University. The overarching goal of NanoLund is to use nanostructures to address important needs of society, namely the following Grand Challenges:
• A sustainable society based on renewable energy
• Precision medicine
• The information technology of the future
• A European industry based on nanomaterials
The research subjects: the 14 PhD students selected projects within materials science, safety and fundamental physics and chemistry of highly controlled, functional nanostructures, as well as their applications in fundamental science, in energy conversion, in electronics and in the life sciences. This includes the continuous development of advanced tools for the fabrication, characterization and theory of nanostructures, with a current focus on semiconductor nanowires.
GenerationNano has the vision to deliver tomorrow's leaders bringing nanoscience and nano-engineering from basic discovery to commercial and industrial applications.