Andreas Gritsch wins the Nano Innovation Award 2024
The LMU Center for NanoScience and four LMU spin-off companies jointly award the Nano Innovation Award for innovative doctoral theses.
Applications from all over Bavaria poured in for this year's Nano Innovation Award. The expert jury honoured three particularly innovative doctoral theses, including the dissertation by MPQ member Andreas Gritsch. The winners were announced at the "CeNS meets Industry" event on 12 July 2024.
Three doctoral researchers have received this year's Nano Innovation Award from the LMU Center for NanoScience. The award, which recognizes innovative research in application-oriented nanosciences, comes with a prize of 9.000 euros split between the first three places. An expert jury from industry and academia selected the winners from applicants across Bavaria. The award ceremony took place during the "CeNS meets Industry" event on 12 July 2024.
The second prize went to Andreas Gritsch, a member of the Quantum Networks research group headed by Andreas Reiserer at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and TUM. He created a novel experimental platform for quantum networks by integrating erbium dopants into silicon photonic nanostructures. Andreas Gritsch's research paves the way for new developments in quantum information technologies, with significant potential for scalable quantum network nodes. A patent has been filed for his findings, and initial steps towards commercialization are underway.
