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Rubicon grants for Matteo Mazzanti and Ryan van Mastrigt

29 July 2024

Physicists Matteo Mazzanti and Ryan van Mastrigt have received an NWO Rubicon grant. The grant allows the researchers, who recently obtained their PhDs, to gain international research experience. Mazzanti will investigate the next generation of ion traps in Zurich; in Paris, van Mastrigt will use machine learning to study the self-folding of chains.
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The Rubicon programme gives young, highly promising researchers the opportunity to gain international research experience. The researchers will spend 24 months at research institutes abroad.

Matteo Mazzanti

Next-generation ion trapping: scalable micro-Penning trap arrays for quantum computing and simulations

With the Rubicon grant, Matteo Mazzanti will visit ETH in Zurich. His project aims to use microfabricated Penning traps as a new platform to tackle the scalability challenges facing current trapped ion quantum computing systems, presenting an innovative approach for advancing quantum information science.

Ryan van Mastrigt

Machine learning to control self-folding

Ryan van Mastrigt will carry out his Rubicon research at ESPCI Paris PSL University. Self-folding – where a chain folds itself into a shape – is nature’s preferred fabrication method, but it is hard to control in model systems. Van Mastrigt aims to use machine learning to control this folding and thereby create new materials at the micron scale.