2DMP
2DMP
2D Materials – Physics of
van der Waals [hetero]structures
DFG Priority program 2244
Leibniz Prize for Dmitri Efetov (LMU)
For his pioneering work on producing large-area homogeneous, "magically" entangled graphene, Dmitri Efetov has been awarded one of the Leibniz Prizes 2024 by the German Research Foundation.
Dmitri Efetov has been Chair of Experimental Solid State Physics at LMU since August 2021. He studied physics at ETH Zurich and began researching graphene during his doctorate at Columbia University, New York. He then conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona. There, he and his group became the third research team in the world to demonstrate superconductivity in graphene at a magic angle. In 2021, he accepted a professorship in experimental physics at LMU Munich.
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation is considered the most important award in German science. This year, ten scientists will receive it. The recipients can use the prize of 2.5 million euros for up to seven years for their scientific work.