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The Project LEIT Team is dedicated to advancing research in the fields of catalysis and nanotechnology. Our team comprises leading experts and passionate collaborators who work together to drive innovation and achieve groundbreaking results.

Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres

Clivia is the PI of the project LEIT, contributing knowledge of several years of expertise in phonon physics, optical spectroscopy and nanoscale thermal transport.

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Team at INL

Collaborations are maintained through regular online meetings and face-to-face discussions. All four collaborators are invited to our annual progress meetings and project workshops. While they do not receive financial support from the project, travel and subsistence costs for attending the formal annual LEIT project progress meetings in Bellaterra (Barcelona) are covered if needed. Otherwise, these collaborations incur no cost to the ERC grant.

Dr. Yani CHEN

Dr. Yani received her Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble Alpes in 2016, and her work was done in the NEEL Institute/CNRS(France). After graduating with her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral fellow and associate researcher at Shenzhen University (China). She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Clivia Sotomayor´s group. Her research interests include novel low-dimensional materials and devices, Raman and Brillouin scattering, thermal transport, etc.
Dr. Manjunath Balagopalan

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Nanophononics Group, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, Portugal. He will be involved in understanding the lattice dynamics of the materials used in the LEIT project.
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Dr. Omid Reza Ranjbar-Naeini

Dr Omid Reza Ranjbar-Naeini joined the P2N as a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres at the ICN2 in Barcelona before joining INL, Braga. He works on the LEIT project, which aims to showcase phonons as information carriers with typical ultralow energies of a fraction of a meV. His role primarily involves experimentally characterising RF coherent phonon coupling to topological interface waveguides designed for hypersonic frequencies and optically detecting the phonons to investigate low-loss propagation along the designed interface.
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Dr. Gloria Conte

Dr. Gloria Conte is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Prof. Clivia Sotomayor group at INL. She works on the investigation of nanocrystalline silicon for the realisation of optomechanical devices for information and communication technology.
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International Collaborators

Collaborations are maintained through regular online meetings and face-to-face discussions. All four collaborators are invited to our annual progress meetings and project workshops. While they do not receive financial support from the project, travel and subsistence costs for attending the formal annual LEIT project progress meetings in Bellaterra (Barcelona) are covered if needed. Otherwise, these collaborations incur no cost to the ERC grant.

Prof. Dr. Jouni Ahopelto

V TT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
Professor at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. Prof. Ahopelto is an expert in nanoelectronics, NOEMS, electronic materials, thermal transport in the nanoscale, piezoelectricity and surface acoustic waves.
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Prof. Dr. Bahram Djafari Rouhani

Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, Université de Lille
Professor Emeritus at the University of Science and Technology of Lille. Prof. Djafari-Rouhani is an expert in theoretical methods for phononic crystals, phononic waveguide coupling to nanobeams and nanophononics in general.
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Prof. Dr. Yan Pennec

Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, Université de Lille
Professor Emeritus at the University of Science and Technology of Lille. Prof. Djafari-Rouhani is an expert in theoretical methods for phononic crystals, optomechanics, phononic waveguide coupling to nanobeams, and nanophononics in general.
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Prof. Dr. Jean-Michel Gérard

Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, Grenoble INP, IRIG, PHELIQS, “Nanophysique et Semiconducteurs” Group
Professor at CEA-INAC, Grenoble. Prof. Gérard is an expert in Molecular Beam epitaxy (MBE) growth of semiconductors and quantum single photon sources.
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Dr. Monika Devi Koijam

Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, Université de Lille
Monika is a postdoctoral researcher at the EPHONI group at the Institut d'Electronique, de Microelectronique et de Nanotechnologie, Universite de Lille, Lille, France.
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