We are looking for a talented and highly motivated PhD candidate to join our team to work on the new SpinENGINE project. This vacancy is a part of a wider European funded consortium composed of five partners: UGent, NTNU Trondheim, Sheffield University, ETH Zurich and IBM Zurich. The SpinENGINE project aims to create a new approach to computing based on emergent properties, i.e., complex, non-linear behavior in tunable ensembles of nanomagnets. This student will concentrate on the numerical modeling of such a nanomagnet ensemble. He/she will explore the emergent behavior in these systems and provide support for the design and interpretation of experiments, based on extensive micromagnetic and statistical modeling. Hereby can be built on the extensive expertise of the DyNaMat group on high performance magnetic modeling using the in-house developed Mumax code (https://mumax.github.io/), which will be the main workhorse for this project. The student will also assist in the development of more specific simulation and analysis tools. More information on the desired profile and how to apply can be found here. 

The Nanomaterials issue of August 2019 features LumiLab cover art! Our colleague David Van der Heggen wrote an article on "Optically Stimulated Nanodosimeters with High Storage Capacity", which goes into the details of thermoluminescence (TL) and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) properties of β-Na(Gd,Lu)F4:Tb3+ nanophosphors. His graphical abstract was the perfect starting point for a nice cover illustration. The full article can be read here.

Dr. Jonas Joos from the LumiLab research group won the first prize for best oral presentation in a competition for graduates, PhD students and post-docs younger than 30.  His talk on "Evidence for intervalence charge transfer (IVCT) states in Eu doped phosphors" was much appreciated by the judges and audience. The 8th International Workshop on Photoluminescence in Rare Earths: Photonic Materials and Devices was held in Nice on 4-6 September 2019. 

The IES sponsors graduate students and post docs with student awards for the best poster(s) at select electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) -related meetings each year. This year Kwinten Maes (EMR group) has been selected as one of the winners of the 2019 International EPR Society (IES) student poster award at the latest EFEPR 2019 meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia.

 His poster entitled “Multi-frequency electron magnetic resonance characterization of Vanadium dopant sites in the Metal-Organic framework DUT-5(Al)” was one of the two selected prize winners from 78 posters.

The chief of our mechanical workshop Stefaan Broekaert is not only a champion in machine building but also got silver and bronze medals in Cycling on the European Company Sport Games Salzburg 2019. Congratulations Stefaan.

https://results.ecsgsalzburg2019.at/?p=competitions&l=en&s=RAD&d=80&c=2

 https://results.ecsgsalzburg2019.at/?p=competitions&l=en&s=RAD&d=82&c=2 

Dr. Jonathan Leliaert (DyNaMat group) has been selected as one of the runners-up for the Journal of Physics D Emerging Leader award, which was instigated to recognise the talents of exceptional, upcoming researchers

His invited paper entitled "Coupling of the skyrmion velocity to its breathing mode in periodically notched nanotracks" was selected from ~30 papers in this year's and previous year's Emerging Leaders special issue in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.

Prof. Smet gave a presentation in dutch about LED's

Begin September 2018 our offices have temporary been moved to building S12 (see contact information)
The biggest part of our labs are still in building S1: ground floor. (but also in S3 and S12 )

This all is due to the renovation of floors 1,2 and 3 of building S1 which should end in 2020.