DTU Fotonik is firmly present among the elite scientists to receive this year's Sapere Aude grant for young scientists. Two out of six DTU recipients come from DTU Fotonik: Jingjing Zhang of the Structured Electromagnetic Materials group and Andrei Andryieuski of the Metamaterials group.
Sapere Aude is a program in the Danish Council for Independent Research. It aims to strengthen the growth of research, to be a spring board for the elite towards international presitge and networking, and to expand the talent mass.
The grants are given to the best scientists in order to create good conditions for them to achieve ground breaking results.
Jingjing Zhang's proejct is entitled Metamaterial analogue of electromagnetic induced transparency (EIT) for bio-sensing and Andrei Andryieuski's project is entitled Graphene Based Terahertz Waveguide and Modulator (GraTer).
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