Winners of the Student Travel Grants 2020

We would like to thank all applicants who submitted entries for the 2020 call. We were excited to see the growing popularity of our Student Travel Grants, with a considerable increase in the number of submissions compared to last year.

The submitted papers and theses covered a wide range of applications and research topics. As in previous years, to avoid an unfair selection we adopted a two-step process where we first verified the eligibility and quality of the submissions; we then used a 'random winner generator' to choose three grant recipients from the list of eligible applicants.

This year's winners are:

• David Hälg (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Membrane-based scanning force microscopy, arXiv:2006.06238v1. Featured instrument: HF2LI Lock-in Amplifier.
• Michal Macha (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland), Wetting of nanopores probed with pressure, arXiv:1911.05229v2. Featured instrument: MFLI Lock-in Amplifier.
• Sebastian Reichert (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany), Ionic-Defect Distribution Revealed by Improved Evaluation of Deep-Level Transient Spectroscopy on Perovskite Solar Cells, Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 034018 (2020). Featured instrument: MFLI Lock-in Amplifier.

They will be able to spend their prize of 1'500 CHF on a 2021 conference or, as an alternative, to buy textbooks, to cover fees for virtual conferences and events, or to take online courses.

Congratulations to the winners and don't forget - the call will open again in 2021!