Winners of the Student Travel Grants 2022
We thank all applicants who submitted entries for the 2022 call. It is rewarding for us to see the continued popularity of our Student Travel Grants.
As in previous years, the submitted papers and theses covered a wide range of applications and research topics. We adopted a two-step process where we verified the eligibility of the submissions and then used a 'random winner generator' to choose three grant recipients from the list of eligible applicants by region.
This year's winners are:
- Pedram Abdolghader (University Of Ottawa, Canada), Unsupervised Hyperspectral Stimulated Raman Microscopy Image Enhancement: Denoising and Segmentation via One-Shot Deep Learning, Phys. Rev. Lett. 10.1364 (2021). Featured instrument: UHFLI Lock-in Amplifier
- Max Werninghaus (Walther-Meissner-Institute, Munich), Leakage reduction in fast superconducting qubit gates via optimal control, Appl. Phys. Lett. 10.1038/s41534-020-00346-2 (2021). Featured instrument: HDAWG Arbitrary Waveform Generator
- Shaojie Wang (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China), Nanoscale mapping of electric polarizability in a heterogeneous dielectric material with surface irregularities, Phys. Rev. Lett. 10.1088/1361-6528 (2021), Featured instrument: HF2LI Lock-in Amplifier.
They will be able to spend their individual prizes of 1'500 CHF on conference fees, textbooks or online courses.
Read what the three winners told us about their experience working with Zurich Instruments' products, and don't forget – the call will open again in 2023!
Learn more about the winners' research here:
Pedram Abdolghader
Almost two years ago, while pursuing my Ph.D. at the National Research Council of Canada and the University of Ottawa, I used the UHFI lock-in amplifier for the first time. I used it for the acquisition of signals for nonlinear optical microscopy (SRS microscopy). The LabOne interface impressed me as its most remarkable feature. Super easy to work with and has numerous options. This led to a brand-new research avenue into the extraction of quantitative data from mineral ore samples using a combination of deep learning and nonlinear Raman laser microscopy.
Max Werninghaus
I first learned about Zurich Instruments when we added the HDAWG device to our control stack about 4 years ago, and wrote the appropriate interfaces to the existing python based software modules.
Since then, the usage of the device has evolved quite a lot, starting with the utilization as a basic arbitrary waveform generator and evolving into a versatile instrument with on-board frequency modulation, complex sequence design and on-device real time application of experimental parameters. The defining features of the instrument for me are the non-standard AWG capabilities such as individual waveform exchanges, efficient sequencing and assembly-like sequence generation, which promise to greatly reduce the initialization time of iterative experiments, which has proven to be a major bottleneck to large-scale hybrid experiments. Lifting these limits will allow for my research to investigate previously non-accessible territories.
Shaojie Wang
I learned about Zurich Instruments from an engineer in Bruker when I need to develop a new EFM method. The HF2LI provides there signal processing channels, which allow me to process EFM raw signals freely and easily. I am very satisfied with the powerful equipment and the professional technical team. I look forward to using the equipment to make more interesting discoveries.