EPS-QEOD Travel Grant Student Awards

Grant Details
20 grants will be awarded.

The monetary sums are 500- € for PhD Students working in a European country or 1000- € for PhD Students working outside Europe.

All PhD Students wishing to attend the conference are invited to apply. Only thesis students can apply, doctoral positions are not accepted.

The monetary amounts will be given by bank transfer after the conference.

The grants will be awarded to PhD Students having not yet defended their thesis at the dates of the QEOD-sponsored conference. Recipients must have an accepted oral or poster contribution at the conference.

Only one grant will be awarded per person and per research group. Applicants from developing countries should receive a particular attention.

Application Procedure
Applications must be made between October 18, 2024 and January 27, 2025 by using the online system of the CLEO®/Europe-EQEC
conference submission system.

During submission a special item will point to the EPS-QEOD Travel Grant Student Awards. If you are interested in applying, check the corresponding box.

Below the box, upload a double-page pdf document (.pdf format) detailing:

Page 1:

(i) your name, surname, date of birth,

(ii) your complete affiliation,

(iii) the title and the 35-word abstract of your contribution,

(iv) starting date of the PhD studies and expected date of the PhD defense,

(v) your list of publications limited to the five most significant articles.

Page 2:

(vi) a support letter of the supervisor.

2025 EPS-QEOD Travel Grant Student Award Winners

Laric Bobzien, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology/ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Bhanu Chauhan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India
Zetian Chen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Yu-En Chien, Institute of Photonics and Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
Sraboni Dey, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Tongmiao Fan, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Francesco Gucci, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Rakshitha Kallega, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Govind Krishna, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Applied Physics, Stockholm, Sweden
Chenjun Ma, State Key Lab for Mesoscopic Physics, Frontiers Science Centre for Nano-optoelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Mostafa Mohamed, Université Bourgogne Europe, ICB, Dijon, France
Pitambar Mukherjee, IMS Laboratory, University of Bordeaux, France
Savvas Papamakarios, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece
Venugopal Raskatla, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Highfield, United Kingdom
Felice Alberto Sfregola, University of Bari and Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Aadithya Suresh, Emergent Photonics Research Centre (EPicX), Dept. of Physics, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Mathieu Walsh, Centre d’Optique, Photonique et Laser, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
Aiman Zinaoui, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, CNRS, Institut FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France

Previous Travel Grant Award Winners

2023 EPS-QEOD Travel Grant Student Award Presented To:

Myriam Bonduelle, IPAG, Grenoble, France
Sebastian Borówka, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Alba de las Heras, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Josef, Freudenstein, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Ana García-Cabrera, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Shreelakshmi Kaniyar, Prasanna Kumar, IISc, Bengaluru, India
Ayaka Koganei, Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Japan
Panagiotis Konstantakis, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
Francesco Manetti, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Alasdair Milne, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Gianni Q. Moretti, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joshua Mornhinweg, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
José Miguel, Pablos-Marín, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Sreeraj S J & Sameer Ahmad Mir, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Rohit, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan
Freya Turley, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Hsuan-Sen, Wang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Maximilian A. Weissflog, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Joanna Wolff, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Zhe Zhang, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

2021 EPS-QEOD Travel Grant Student Award Presented To:

Dominik Auth, Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany
Antonio Cutrona, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Alvaro Rodriguez Echarri, ICFO – Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona, Spain
Matthew Garett, The University of Sydney, Australia
Aurelian John-Herpin, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Lal Krishna A.S., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
Shima Rajabali, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Bartu Şimşek, National Nanotechnology Research Center, Ankara, Turkey
Robyn Tucker, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Simon White, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

2019 EPS-QEOD Travel Grant Student Award Presented To:

Emil Vosmar Denning, DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Vinícius C. Ferreira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Xin Jin, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Energie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (INRS-EMT), Varennes, Canada
Aleksandrs Leitis, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Ziqi Li, School of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Paulius Mackonis, Solid State Laser laboratory, Department of Laser Technologies, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania
Ahmed Othman, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Dmitrii Pushkarev, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Jérémy Raskop, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB), Paris, France
Varun Sharma, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India