High honor for Chinese doctoral student in quantum physics

PhD student Qi Wang has been honored by the Chinese government. (Photo: Koziel/TUK)

The Kaiserslautern doctoral student Qi Wang has received the "2018 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad." The award is considered the highest honor awarded by the Chinese government to doctoral students studying abroad. Wang conducts research in the Magnetism Chair under Professor Dr. Burkard Hillebrands at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK). He is working on a new form of circuits where, instead of electrons, certain quantum particles called magnons are used.

Since February 2016, Qi Wang has been a doctoral student in the Physics Department at TUK. He is supervised by Junior Professor Dr. Andrii Chumak. The two are researching the physical foundations for the data processing of the next generation. They focus on magnons; these are magnetic spin waves that could make computers, smartphones, or dialysis machines significantly faster and more powerful in the future. The Kaiserslautern scientists are working on a new variant of circuits that are smaller than one ten-thousandth of a millimeter and transmit information via spin waves.

For this work, Chumak received an ERC Starting Grant in 2016 — one of the highest research awards in the EU. Additionally, the physicists' research is closely integrated into the State Research Center for Optics and Material Sciences (OPTIMAS), which is financially supported by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

The Chinese government established this award in 2003. It annually honors 500 young Chinese researchers who demonstrate outstanding performance in their doctoral studies. Wang received the award on May 5 at the Chinese Embassy in Berlin.

Questions answered by:
Junior Professor Dr. Andrii Chumak
Email: chumak[at]physik.uni-kl.de
Phone: 0631 205-4203

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