All MagnEFi ESRs will engage in outreach activities targeting the general public over the course of their employment contracts. A list of these activities is provided here below.
24 January 2024
ESR5 Md Golam Hafiz gave a presentation at the Bragg Exchange conference organised by University of Leeds. The audience included PhD students from different Schools from the University of Leeds, academics from different research fields, and experts from the industry. A series of talks and posters were provided. The abstract can be found in the attached document.
16 November 2023
ESR5 Md Golam Hafiz gave a presentation at the postgraduate forum organised by University of Leeds. The presentation is titled: BLS measurement technique and the effect of e-filed on interfacial magnetic -properties. This forum is an opportunity for research staff to exchange information and discuss postgraduate research issues.
10 September 2023
Beatrice Bednarz supervised an information booth at the Mainz Science Market and explained magnetic phenomena to children, teenagers, and all other interested passersby. Among other things, Beatrice illustrated magnetic field lines, explained how to measure the force of an electromagnet, and demonstrated, as an example of an application of magnetic sensors, a model of the elevator in the Taipei Tower.
03 August 2023
ESR6 Adithya Rajan attended the 2nd China-Germany bilateral meeting on topological devices, 2D materials and the future of spintronics. The conference had talks on various aspects of 2D material growth, characterization, and application in technology from participants in China and Germany. There were also talks on new topological materials. This was followed by a poster presentation. Adithya presented his poster on his latest work titled “Revealing the higher order spin nature of the Hall effect in noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Ni0.35Cu0.65N”.
11 May 2023
ESR4 Jintao Shuai visited the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China on 11 May 2023. During the visit, Jintao delivered an oral presentation titled “Local anisotropy control of Pt/Co/Ir thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy by surface acoustic waves” to an audience consisting of PIs, post-docs, master students, and PhD students from the Advanced Carbon-based Films Research Group. In addition to the scientific talk, Jintao also provided insights into academic life in the UK and shared information about the Marie Curie ITN programme and the MagnEFi project. Moreover, Jintao had the opportunity to visit the laboratory facilities during the visit.
19 April 2023
ERS8 Adrien Petrillo helped with the organization of “Ciné-science: Seul sur Mars” with the Young minds teams of Liège (Belgium).
“Grâce à deux chercheurs de l’Université de Liège, Jean-Claude Gérard (spécialiste de la planète Mars) et Alain Hambuckers (spécialiste de la biologie végétale), nous avons pu décrypter la science derrière le film “Seul sur Mars” de Ridley Scott.
Notre séance de cinéma améliorée a ainsi attiré plus de 60 curieux, à la recherche de réponses sur la conquête spatiale humaine et robotique, sur l’existence de tempêtes de sable martiennes et bien entendu, sur la possibilité de cultiver des pommes de terre sur la planète rouge !
30 March 2023
An article about the MagnEFi ITN was published in CURSOR Magazine at TU/e. To view the article please click on the link below:
https://www.cursor.tue.nl/en/background/2023/maart/week-4/supporting-each-other-on-a-european-level/
20-26 March 2023
ERS8 Adrien Petrillo helped with the organization of “Printemps des sciences:Diversité” with the Young minds teams of Liège (Belgium).
“Cette année encore, l’équipe Young Minds Liège était présente pour fêter les sciences et technologies lors du Printemps des Sciences. Nous avons ainsi accueilli pendant 4 jours des élèves du secondaire mais également des familles avec enfants afin de leur faire comprendre la diversité des planètes qui peuplent notre Univers à l’aide d’activités ludiques, de maquettes et d’expériences en direct.
Ils ont ainsi pu découvrir les conditions très différentes et extrêmes qui règnent à la surface de certains corps de notre Système Solaire tels que Vénus, Mars ou encore Pluton. Grâce à notre Transit Simulator (qui reproduit les passages de planètes devant leur étoile) et à nos expériences de spectroscopie, petits comme grands ont pu se mettre dans la peau des astrophysiciens qui détectent et étudient au jour le jour les planètes autour d’autres soleils que le nôtre.
3 March 2023
ESR5 Md Golam Hafiz gave a presentation entitled Ionic liquid gating techniques and magneto-ionic modification of CoB at the University of Leeds Postgraduate forum.
22 November 2022
ESR13 Gyan van der Jagt gave a talk: “PhD in a start-up environment”, to a group of PhD students from the Université Paris-Saclay that were visiting the Spin-Ion lab.
The talk had 3 main topics:
- Spin-Ion Technologies
- Gyan’s experience as a PhD in a start-up
- Taking research from the lab to a start-up.
15 October 2022
For the Bachelor’s open day at TU/e Reinoud Lavrijsen, Bert Koopmans & the FNA Group put together a video on YouTube about the Nano Access lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zibGSXuWwNE
October 2020-July 2022
ESR12 Cristina Balan was one of the organisers of the PhD student seminars at Institut Néel. These seminars take place once a month, where interns, masters and PhD students (sometimes post-docs too) participate and they present their recent project progress. PhD students are given priority to present as their participation in a good exercise for giving a talk to a large public.
8 June 2022
ESR4 Jintao Shuai attended the Bragg PhD Colloquium 2022 on 8 June 2022, organised by the Bragg Centre for Materials Research, University of Leeds. He gave a talk entitled “Local anisotropy control of Pt/Co/Ir thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy by surface acoustic waves”. The audience included PhD students from different Schools from the University of Leeds, academics from different research fields, and experts from the industry. A series of talks and posters were provided.
8 June 2022
ESR5 Md Golam Hafiz Jintao Shuai attended the Bragg PhD Colloquium 2022 on 8 June 2022, organised by the Bragg Centre for Materials Research, University of Leeds. He gave an oral presentation entitled “Ionic Liquid Gating of Magnetic Multilayers with Structure Inversion Asymmetry.”
19 April 2022
PI Reinoud Lavrijsen from TU/e was elected National Teacher of the Year 2022 by the Dutch national students association. He gave a talk Invited talk to the committee (Interstedelijk Stedelijk Studenten Overleg – ISO) titled: “Why does a piece of iron not stick to your fridge?” for approximately 100 participants. https://www.cursor.tue.nl/en/news/2022/april/week-3/reinoud-lavrijsen-teacher-of-the-year-2022/
6 April 2022
ESRs from the MSCA ITN INIA met with ESRs from the MSCA ITN MagnEFi for a cross sectoral outreach activity. Five ESRs from each project gave presentations about their research projects and their experiences as Marie Curie fellows. The presentations were followed by a short Q&A session. An agenda for the event is available here and some photos are provided here.
25 January 2022
ESR Jintao Shuai attended the Bragg Exchange Conference, which was held at the University of Leeds on 25th January 2022. The audience included professors from different fields, PhD students, master students, and bachelor students from different schools across the University. The event was also streamed on YouTube. Jintao gave a lightning talk and a poster at the conference sharing his latest research results on coercivity control of thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy by surface acoustic waves. For photos from the event, please click here and here.
9 December 2021
ESR Jintao Shuai participated in Skyrmion Seminar at the University of Leeds. He presented his work in MagnEFi to an audience of approximately 15 PIs, post-docs and PhD students at the university.
15 October 2021
ESR1 Subhajit Roy presented his work through a poster at the C2N materials departmental meeting. Over 50 people attended the presentation including permanent staff, master trainees, doctoral and post-doctoral students. For larger photo, please click here.
September 24, 2021
As part of European Researchers’ Night, ESR 3 Adriano di Pietro, presented the MagnEFi network poster and explained a little bit about the MagnEFi project at his host institution INRIM in Italy. More information about the event can be found here: https://www.sharper-night.it/sharper-torino/. The idea of the European Researchers’ Night within the framework of Horizon2020 is to run parallel, Europe-wide public events to raise the awareness on science careers and the enhance public recognition of researchers in general.
September 2021
ESR 13, Gyan van der Jagt, has created a personal Instagram account where he shares small parts about the daily life of an ESR (https://www.instagram.com/phd_with_gyan/)
September 15, 2021
On September 15, ESR 5 Md Golam Hafiz from University of Leeds gave a talk at the CRIM 2021 conference entitled “Back gate effect on magnetic properties on skyrmion manipulation” to an audience of approximately 40 people. A programme of the event is available here.
May 12, 2021
ESR Jintao Shuai (Leeds) gave an online talk at the PG Forum at the University of Leeds on 12th May 2021. Jintao is trying to understand the interaction of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) and magnetic thin films. In his talk, he presented the audience with the background and current research progress of his project, which included the preparation of characterization of Pt/Co and Pt/CoFeB thin films, and the design and building of the SAW circuit. In addition, he demonstrated the influence of SAWs on magnetic thin films by simulation. Future plans were also introduced. This talk aroused the interest of the audience and in-depth discussions were carried out afterwards.
April 2021
ESR Giovanni Masciocchi gave a presentation on what it is like to be a researcher at Liceo Statale “Enrico Fermi”, in Cantù, Italy. The goal of the presentation was to motivate students to choose a career as a researcher in applied sciences. Giovanni also illustrated his project and the Magnefi Network. To view some photos, from the event, please click here.
8 March 2021
In an ongoing collaboration, MagnEFi ESRs worked to produce a second project poster. This poster details the individual ESR projects and can be viewed here.
March 2021
In early 2021, MagnEFi ESRs worked together to produce a YouTube video about the goals of the MagnEFi project. To view the video, please click here.
13 January 2021
ESR Jintao Shuai gave a presentation at the PG Forum at University of Leeds. The audience included academics, post-doctoral researchers, post-graduate students and undergraduate students of the School of Physics and Astronomy. PG Forum is organised by the Condensed Matter Group in the University of Leeds. Due to the current Covid19 situation, the PG Forum was held online.
January 2021
A group of MagnEFi ESRs has set up a working group to create network posters. The first poster became available in January 2021 and presents the network, the connections between people and institutes and the project objectives. To view a larger version of the poster, please click here.
2 December 2020: Presentation at Sensitec
On December 2nd, ESR Giovanni Masciocchi gave a presentation at Sensitec about the effects of the stress in magnetic sensors, the topic of his PhD. To view photos from the event, please click here.
12 September 2020: Telescience Scholar Program, Digilearn 2020, Kerala, India
ESR11, Sreeveni Mozhikunnath Das (Aalto, Finland) delivered a webinar entitled “Learning in the Covid-19 Times at Finland” about her experience learning with MagnEFi during the lockdown period due to Covid19.
September 2020: Creation of a MagnEFi Instagram account
https://www.instagram.com/magnefi_itn/
September 2020: Creation of a MagnEFi twitter account
https://twitter.com/MagnEFi_ITN
20 August 2020: Creation of MagnEFi facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/MagnEFiITN/
3 June 2020: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzen
ESR 10, Mouad Fattouhi presented a talk on his work on strain-induced magnetization dynamics and spin textures, including skyrmions and vortices to the CUHKSZ-SICNU laboratory group at the university including information about his work in the framework of MagnEFi.