Prestigious EU funding for experimental physicists

In his MSpin project, Dr. Daqing Wang will explore the strategies for detecting and controlling individual nuclear spins in organic molecules and tailor them for applications in quantum information processing. An ambitious goal of his project is to combine the favorable coherent photon emission of dye molecules with the well-isolated quantum states of individual nuclear spins in the molecule to facilitate the storage and transformation of quantum information.

After earning a bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, and a master's degree from Friedrich Schiller University, Daqing Wang received his PhD from Friedrichs-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light in 2019. His dissertation on molecular cavity quantum electrodynamics was awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Atoms, Molecules, Quantum Optics and Plasmas Section of the German Physical Society. After receiving his PhD, he worked at the University of Kassel as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a junior principal investigator in the DFG Collaborative Research Center "Extreme Light for the Analysis and Control of Molecular CHirality" (ELCH) at the University of Kassel and three other research sites in Germany. Wang is also an associate member of the Center of Interdisciplinary Nanoscience and Technology (CINSaT).

This year, 397 young scientists received Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). This involves investing EUR 619 million in outstanding projects by scientists and academics as part of the new EU FuIl program "Horizon Europe". The grants, averaging EUR 1.5 million, are designed to help ambitious younger researchers launch their own projects, build their teams and pursue their best ideas. The Starting Grants selected cover all research disciplines, from the medical applications of artificial intelligence to the science of controlling matter through light to designing a legal regime for fair influencer marketing. About 43 percent of the grants will go to women researchers, an increase from 37 percent in 2020 and the highest percentage to date.

Contact:

Dr. Ronny Fischer
Research and Graduate Funding Unit
International Research Funding Unit (EU Liaison Office)
Tel: 0561 804-2240
Mail: ronny.fischer[at]uni-kassel[dot]de