Scientific Projects of the 1st funding period

• Artificial multiferroic van der Waals heterostructures
  Stuart Parkin (MPI Halle)

• Atomistic theory of excited states in van der Waals heterostructures: Moiré confinement strain and electric field effect
  Gabriel Bester (Universität Hamburg)

• Chasing polaritons: A pathway to investigate the optoelectronic properties of van der Waals heterostructures
  Patryk Kusch (FU Berlin), Stephanie Reich (FU Berlin)

• Compressive strain in stacked 2D materials: from proximity to metastable hybridization
  Roland Bennewitz (Leibniz INM)

• Correlated miniband and multivalley physics in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides
  Tim Wehling (University Hamburg), Ursula Wurstbauer (University of Münster)

• Electron-phonon coupling in 2D van-der-Waals [hetero]structures
  Janina Maultzsch (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

• Electronic control of spin-orbit and magnetic exchange coupling in graphene vdW-heterostructures (SOControl)
  Christoph Kastl (TU Munich), Marko Burghard (MPI FKF), Alexander Holleitner (TU Munich)

• Electronic properties and Raman spectra of inorganic van der Waals heterostructures: first-principle studies
  Agnieszka Kuc (HZDR)

• Exfoliated two-dimensional ferromagnets probed by photoelectron spectroscopy
  Lukasz Plucinski (FZ Jülich), Markus Morgenstern (RWTH Aachen)

• High yield assembly of designer twisted 2D vdW hetero-structures
  Dmitri K. Efetov (LMU München)

• Interlayer excitons in advanced, CVD-based van der Waals heterostructures with controlled moiré wavelength
  Tobias Korn (Uni Rostock), Christian Schüller (University of Regensburg), Andrey Turchanin (Uni Jena)

• Light-matter coupling and cavity-QED with moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
  Christopher Gies (University of Bremen), Christian Schneider (Universität Oldenburg), Stephan Reitzenstein (TU Berlin)

• Light-matter interaction at TMDC-based interfaces
  Ermin Malic (Philipps-University Marburg)

• Magnetotransport Studies of Interfacial Interactions in van der Waals structures
  Jurgen H. Smet (MPI Stuttgart)

• Microscopic understanding of correlation effects in twisted van der Waals [hetero]structures
  Dante Marvin Kennes (RWTH Aachen), Carsten Honerkamp (RWTH Aachen)

• Optical excitations in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures under pressure
  Rudolf Bratschitsch (University of Münster), Michael Rohlfing (University of Münster)

• Optical properties of 2D material heterostructures
  Arash Rahimi-Iman (Philipps University Marburg)

• Proximity effects in 2D magnetic vdW (hetero)multilayers
  Jaroslav Fabian (University of Regensburg)

• Proximity effects in ferromagnetic van der Waals heterostructures
  J. Marcelo Lopes (PDI Berlin), Jens Herfort (PDI Berlin), Manfred Ramsteiner (PDI Berlin)

• Quantum gases in semiconductor van der Waals heterostructures
  Alexander Steinhoff-List (University of Bremen), Alexey Chernikov (University of Regensburg), Alexander Högele (Ludwig Maximilian University)

• Spectromicroscopy of 2D interfaces
  Niels Schröter (MPI Halle)

• Spin-orbit coupling, spintexture, and Ising superconductivity in TMDC heterostructures
  Thomas Brumme (TU Dresden)

• Subnanoscale engineering of 2D magnetism in van der Waals heterostructures
  Markus Ternes (RWTH Aachen), Samir Lounis (FZ Jülich)

• Tailoring electronic correlations, excitonics and topological properties in van der Waals heterostructures on ultrafast timescales
  Samuel Beaulieu (FHI Berlin), Ralph Ernstorfer (FHI Berlin)

• Terahertz nonlinear transport in twisted graphene and van der Waals heterostructures
  Sergey Ganichev (University of Regensburg)

• Topological effects in graphene/2D polymer superlattices
  Xinliang Feng (TU Dresden), Thomas Heine (TU Dresden), Thomas Weitz (Universität Göttingen)

• Topological superconductivity and Majorana states in van der Waals heterostructures characterized by scanning probe microscopy
  Felix Lüpke (FZ Jülich)

• Towards 2D superconducting spintronics
  Angelo Di Bernardo (University of Konstanz), Hadar Steinberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Wolfgang Belzig (University of Konstanz), Elke Scheer (University of Konstanz)

• Tunable moiré potentials in 2D-heterostructures using anisotropic strain
  Jonathan J. Finley (TU-München), Fei Ding (Universität Hannover), Rolf Haug (Universität Hannover)

• Tunable twistronics: local tuning and probing of topological edge states and superconductivity in bilayer graphene
  Benoit Hackens (Université Catholique de Louvain), Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau (CNRS-C2N), Christoph Stampfer (RWTH Aachen)

• Tuning and mapping hybrid polaritons at the nanoscale
  Hannah Catherine Nerl (Humboldt University Berlin), Katja Höflich ( Ferdinand-Braun-Institut Berlin)

• Tuning excitonic quantum optics in stacked van-der-Waals semiconductors
  Kai-Qiang Lin (University of Regensburg), Sebastian Bange (University of Regensburg)