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Awards

PI Awards

  • Lynette Keeney : Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate “Spiral-Top: Designing confined multiferroic topologies to explore relationships between magnetic and polar textures”.
  • Alessandra Imbrogno (Supervisor Michael Nolan): IRC Pathway Award “Green energy storage: development of sustainable supercapacitors by direct laser writing of natural materials (SUPER-GREEN)”.
  • Michael Nolan:  Award from SRC’s GRC 2023 Nanomanufacturing Materials and Processes Program (2023-NMP-31270848).
  • Ray Duffy, Nikolay Petkov and Giorgos Fagas: EPSRC-SFI Award “Developing a quantum bus for germanium hole-based spin qubits on silicon” with University of Warwick, University of Cambridge and University College London.
  • Nikolay Petkov, Giorgos Fagas ,  SFI Partnerships Award “Nanofabrication and advanced characterisations for GeSn quantum devices”.
  • Ray Duffy:  SFI Frontiers for the Future Award , “Pulsed laser annealing of low temperature 2D semiconductors for large area applications in electronics using flexible substrates”.
  • Michael Nolan, Aoife Lucid: SFI Fellowship successful, accepted and confirmed start date 02/10/2023 for 24 months.
  • Emanuele Pelucchi :Award from SFI Frontiers for the Future programme; “Expanding” site-controlled quantum dot technology: photonic cavity toolkit development for quantum integration (Exquis)
  • IRC Postdoc, Anurag Pritam,  (Supervisor Lynette Keeney) “Room temperature multiferroicity in higher-layered homologues of Aurivillius films for sustainable data storage applications”
  • IRC Postdoc, Karl Ronnby,  (Supervisor Michael Nolan) “Control of interconnect metal morphology on complex substrates for 3D neuromorphic architectures”October 21st 2022
  • IRC PhD Fellowship, Michael Sweetman, (Supervisor Michael Nolan), “ Prediction of Metal Nucleation on 2D Materials”
  • Giorgos Fagas  :  SFI FFP Award SFI-21/FFP-A/9257- “Nanofabrication and advanced characterisations for GeSn   quantum devices”.
  • Ray Duffy: SFI FFP Award 21/FFP-A/9897  “Pulsed laser annealing of low temperature 2D semiconductors for large area applications in electronics using flexible substrates”  
  • Lynette Keeney was awarded an enhancement to her RS/ SFI University Research Fellowship for a Post-Doctoral Researcher
  • Sinan Bugu was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Post-Doc Fellowship on Ge based Qubits.
  • Sinan Bugu: Awarded IRC Post-Doc Fellowship on Ge based Qubits, not taken.
  • Karim Cherkaoui : SFI  US-Ireland project ‘GUIDE’ (Ga2O3: Understanding growth, interfaces and defects to enable next generation electronics) in collaboration with UT Dallas
  • Lynette Keeney – RS/SFI University Research Fellowship ‘Making Memories: Ultra-thin Multiferroics for Disruptive Data Storage Technologies’
  • Philip Murphy Armando – SFI FFP ‘Spin-related transport, optical and quantum properties in Ge’ 
  • Lynette Keeney/Michael Nolan – SFI FFP ‘Optimisation of Single Phase Room Temperature Multiferroic Materials Enabling Next Generation Data Storage’

PhD and PostDoc Fellowship Awards

  • MSCA PostDocFellowship award, “2DMEM” (Supervisor Lida Ansari)
  • MSCA PostDocFellowship award, “Phys-2D-Gram” (Supervisor Farzan Gity, Paul Hurley)
  • IRC Postdoc, Anurag Pritam,  (Supervisor Lynette Keeney) “Room temperature multiferroicity in higher-layered homologues of Aurivillius films for sustainable data storage applications”.
  • IRC Postdoc, Karl Ronnby,  (Supervisor Michael Nolan) “Control of interconnect metal morphology on complex substrates for 3D neuromorphic architectures”.
  • IRC PhD Fellowship, Michael Sweetman, (Supervisor Michael Nolan), “ Prediction of Metal Nucleation on 2D Materials”.

Grand Challenges

  • Emanuele Pelucchi and Giorgos Fagas instigated €11m DTIF project led by IBM, QcoIr: Quantum Computing in Ireland
  • Giorgos Fagas, coordinator of funded proposal: “European Research Infrastructure on Semiconductor Chips”; (INFRACHIP); HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01-01;
  • Giorgos Fagas, funded proposal: ERASMUS+ project on ‘European Chips Skills Academy Activity’ (Acronym: ECS Academy).
  • Paul Hurley: THE META INDUSTRIAL CHAIR IN SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES AT UCC AND TYNDALL NATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Commercialization Awards

  • Philip Murphy won a UCC Sprint Disruptive Technology Award for an Ultra-Sensitive Nano Material for Minimal Invasive Surgery.

Infrastructure Awards

  • Lida Ansari – EuroHPC 2-year project for hybrid parallelization of QuantumATK code for nanoelectronics
  • Michael Nolan – secured 10 million CPU hours through ICHEC
  • Michael Nolan – secured 2.6 million CPU hours through PRACE DECI

Tyndall Catalyst Awards

  • Sinan Bugu, Nikolay Petkov, Ray Duffy: Tyndall Catalyst Award, “Gatemon qubit devices based on 2D materials”.
  • Lynette Keeney  – project Via the Tyndall-OSU/IMR Catalyst Funding – Pilot Program, with the Centre for Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS) at Ohio State University, USA.
  • Ray Duffy, Nikolay Petkov: ‘Silicon-based qubit devices and sensors’
  • Simone Varo, Michael Schmidt: ‘Coupling of non-classical light sources to compact photonic integrated packages for quantum information technologies’