Summer School 2022: Registration is open

published on 2022-07-01 by @2dmp_spp2244

The registration for the SPP2244 Summer School 2022 is open. All details and registration form can be found here.


Start-Up Funding

published on 2022-03-23 by @2dmp_spp2244

We are happy to announce that the PP 2244 will grant start-up funding for

  • Dr. Pedro Soubelet (TU München),
  • Dr. Emeline D. S. Nysten (WWU Münster), and
  • Dr. Bárbara Rosa (TU Berlin).

The Priority Program (PP) 2244 provides start-up funding meant to allow young investigators to follow their own research idea, and possibly to bring them to a scientific level that they can apply as PI in the 2nd funding period starting in April 2024. The call was primarily addressed to researchers involved in the PP 2244 but external applicants werealso considered. All information can be found here.


Mid-term report colloquium: program available

published on 2022-03-13 by @2dmp_spp2244

The updated program for the SPP 2244 mid-term report colloquium from March 21 to March 23 in Dresden is available at https://2dmp.tu-dresden.de/events/midterm/. This includes the full schedule and the virtual book of abstracts for the poster sessions.


Workshop Announcements: ICP2DC and Bad Honeff Physics School 2022

published on 2022-02-01 by 2dmp_spp2244

The International conference Physics Of 2D Crystals (ICP2DC) will take place from June 28 to July 3, 2022 in Ekaterinburg. Christian Schneider and Alexey Chernikov are part of the program committee and many members of the SPP are on the list of invited speakers, so we can expect the program to be closely related to our work in the SPP. You can find all information here.

The Bad Honnef Physics School "As thin as it gets: Physics of 2D Materials and Heterostructures" will take plae from July 24 to July 29, 2022 in Bad Honeff. It is focussed on synthesis, fabrication, and characterization as well as properties and hot topics in the field of 2D materials. Among the speakers are several PIs of the SPP. Details can be found here.


Mid-term Report Colloqium

published on 2022-01-25 by 2dmp_spp2244

The mid-term report colloquium will take place from March 21 to March 23, 2022 as an in person event in Dresden. Meeting venue will be Penck Hotel Dresden. You can find more information on the event website

Please register via mail at the SPP Office until February 17, 2022


Summer School 2021

published on 2021-06-30 by @2dmp_spp2244

The first summer school of the SPP 2244 with the title "vdW assembly – more than playing Lego" will start today at 13:20 (CEST) with a welcome session by Prof. Thomas Heine and afterwards the first lecture by Prof. Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau (C2N, Université Paris-Saclay, France) on "Building quantum materials layer by layer". Furthermore, we will have the first poster session and our virtual lab tours today. Please visit the summer school webpage for more details.

If you have trouble accessing the meeting please contact the SPP office at dfg-spp2244 (at) tu-dresden.de or via the VRE.


SPP Colloquium Series

published on 2021-05-03 by @2dmp_spp2244

This summer term the first colloquia as part of the SPP will take place. We plan to have a series of colloquia every semester, starting with a small summer series including talks by Andres Castellanos-Gomez, CSIC Madrid, Spain (June 10, 15:00 in cooperation with CRC 1415 "Chemistry of synthetic 2D materials") and James McIver, MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter Hamburg. More details on this will come soon on the 2dmp website, our Twitter channel @2dmp_spp2244 and also by e-mail.


Workshop Announcement: 2D Materials for Spin-Orbitronics

published on 2021-04-13 by @2dmp_spp2244

From May 3 to May 5 an ICTP virtual meeting on “2D Materials for Spin-Orbitronics” will take place. The topics include

  • Properties and potential of 2D materials for spin-orbitronics
  • Skyrmions and exotic magnetism
  • Spin-orbit torque

More details can be found here. Registration is free, deadline is April 23, 2021.


Open positions in SPP 2244

published on 2021-03-11 by @2dmp_spp2244

Currently there is one open position for PhD students in the group of Dr. Katja Höflich to work on their Joint-Lab Photonic Quantum Technologies. The work will focus on on the fabrication and ion beam based nanostructuring of two-dimensional (2D) van-der-Waals heterostructures for the low-loss transport of highly confined polaritonic modes. For more details visit https://fbh-berlin.softgarden.io/job/9268815?l=de.


Publications February 2021

published on 2021-02-15 by @2dmp_spp2244

The papers from Dante Kennes and coworkers shown as preprints in January have now been published:

  • "Moiré heterostructures as a condensed-matter quantum simulator" in Nature Physics
  • "Moiré metrology of energy landscapes in van der Waals heterostructures" in Nature Communications

The first of these papers was also picked up by phys.org.