The awardees
Meet the students who received the INSPIRE Potentials - Quantum Center Master Award.
With the INSPIRE Potentials awards, the Quantum Center recognizes excellent and highly motivated female students who are about to conduct their Master's thesis in one of the Quantum Center member groups. Awardees receive 8'000 CHF (provided they do not hold other substantial scholarships) and benefit from knowledge exchange and networking opportunities within the Quantum Center community. More details on the award, eligibility criteria and deadlines can be found on this website.
Awardees July 2024 call
Jiangjing Dong is conducting her Master's thesis during the Autumn Semester 2024 in the Computational Lattice Field Theory group of Prof. Marina Marinkovic (D-PHYS), focusing on dynamical signatures of quantum many-body scars in quantum link models. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in the Ingénieur Polytechnicien programme at l'École Polytechnique, majoring in physics.
Luise Müller is a Master’s student in physics with a Bachelor’s degree from LMU in Munich. She is pursuing her Master's thesis during the Autumn Semester 2024 in the Hybrid Quantum Systems group of Prof. Yiwen Chu (D-PHYS), investigating the inverse Purcell effect when coupling the HBAR to a superconducting qubit, focusing on how the qubit’s properties affect the resonator’s lifetime.
Irene Occhiodori will conduct her Master's thesis in the Autumn Semester 2024 in the external page group of Prof. Federico Capasso at Harvard University, co-supervised by Prof. David Norris from D-MAVT. This joint project focuses on the enhancement of the second harmonic signal of multi-quantum well devices by designing metasurfaces. Irene received a grant from the external page Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation to support her research stay at Harvard. Prior to joining ETH Zurich, she earned a Bachelor's degree in materials and nanotechnology engineering from the Politecnico di Milano.
Awardees January 2024 call
JingJing Li
JingJing Li is pursuing her Master's thesis in computational science and engineering during the Spring Semester 2024 in the Computational Lattice Field Theory group of Prof. Marina Marinkovic (D-PHYS). Her focus is on the computational aspect of lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) simulations. She previously gained her Bachelor's degree in physical natural sciences from the University of Cambridge, specialising in theoretical physics.
Mona-Lisa Michel
Mona-Lisa Michel is conducting her Master's thesis in quantum engineering during the Spring Semester 2024 in a joint project between Prof. Yiwen Chu's Hybrid Quantum Systems group (D-PHYS) and external page Dr. Paul Seidler’s group at IBM Research. She is exploring a III-V material as a platform for microwave to optical transduction using optomechanics. Mona holds a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich.
Awardees July 2023 call
Lisa Appel
Lisa Appel is pursuing her Master's thesis during the Autumn Semester 2023 in the Nano-TCAD group supervised by Prof. Mathieu Luisier from D-ITET, with co-supervision by Prof. Rachel Grange from D-PHYS. Her research focuses on the quantum kinetics of photo-excited electrons and holes in 2-D materials. Lisa holds a Bachelor's degree in physics from ETH Zurich.
Petia Arabadjieva
Petia Arabadjieva is a Master's student in quantum engineering, holding a Bachelor’s degree in physics from ETH Zurich. She is conducting her Master’s thesis in the Quantum Information Theory group of Prof. Renato Renner (D-PHYS) in the Autumn Semester 2023, where her research focuses on investigating efficient protocols for classical verification of quantum computations.
Awardees January 2023 call
Raquel García-Bellés
Raquel García-Bellés is a Master's student in quantum engineering at ETH Zurich. Before joining ETH as an ESOP scholar, she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics with honours from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Raquel is conducting her Master's thesis during the Spring Semester 2023 at the Quantum Device Lab of Prof. Andreas Wallraff (D-PHYS), focusing on the fabrication and characterization of Josephson junction arrays.
Awardees July 2022 call
Carla A. Ferradini
Carla Ferradini studies physics at ETH Zurich. She is conducting her Master's thesis during the Autumn Semester 2022 in the Quantum Information Theory group of Prof. Renato Renner (D-PHYS), focusing on the foundations of quantum mechanics. Before joining ETH Zurich as an external page ESOP Scholar, Carla studied physics at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she completed her Bachelor's degree with honours.
Laura Gabriel
Laura Gabriel is a Master's student in physics with a Bachelor's degree in materials science from ETH Zurich. She is carrying out her Master's thesis in the Quantum Optoelectronics group of Prof. Jérôme Faist and Prof. Giacomo Scalari (D-PHYS) during the Autumn Semester 2022, studying quantum-vacuum fluctuations and their correlation properties outside the light cone.
Aida Mashaal
Aida Mashaal is a Master's student in physics at ETH Zurich. She performed her Master's thesis project in the Trapped Ion Quantum Information group of Prof. Jonathan Home during the Spring Semester 2022, on identifying limiting noise sources in cryogenic ion-trap systems. Aida holds a Bachelor's degree with honours in technical physics from the Technical University of Vienna.