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Marcos Guimaraes is an associate professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen. During his PhD he worked with electronic and spin transport in high-mobility devices based on graphene, and during his postdoc he broadened his research directions to include other two-dimensional materials and other techniques, such as high-frequency spin-orbit torque characterization and time-resolved magneto-optics through optical pump-probe measurements. Since 2019 he leads his own research group in Groningen, working on optical and opto-electronic studies of the interplay of light, charge and spins/magnetism in high-quality nanodevices based on van der Waals heterostructures.

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Gary Steele is a professor of quantum physics at the department of Quantum Nanoscience in Delft. He comes from a background of condensed matter physics, studying the quantum Hall effect in semiconductors during my PhD. In his postdoc, he worked intensely on advanced and creative nanofabrication techniques with carbon nanotubes. In 2010, Gary started my own group in Delft, focussed on nanomechanics. The core aim of his research is to combine  superconducting quantum circuits, such as qubits, to create and explore quantum states of mechanical resonators, with the hope to be able to probe the interaction of quantum mechanics and general relativity.

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Erwin Kessels is a full professor at the Department of Applied Physics of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is also the scientific director of the NanoLab@TU/e facilities which provides full-service and open-access clean room infrastructure for R&D in nanotechnology. Erwin’s research interests cover the field of synthesis of ultrathin films and nanostructures using methods such as (plasma-enhanced) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) for a wide variety of applications, mostly within the areas of nanoelectronics and photovoltaics. Within the field of ALD, he has contributed most prominently by his work on plasma-assisted ALD, his research related to ALD for photovoltaics, and ALD for nanopatterning (including area-selective ALD).

Currently, Erwin is focusing his research mostly on atomic scale processing, a field which is believed to grow in importance quickly in the next decade, for a wide variety of application domains.

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Prof. dr. Ewold Verhagen leads the new research group Photonic Forces at the FOM Institute AMOLF. His group studies photonics in high-quality microcavities and nanophotonic waveguides, with a special interest in the coupling between light and nanomechanical motion through radiation pressure forces in nanophotonic systems. In 2014, he was awarded the NWO Vidi grant to perform quantum measurements in nano-optomechanical systems.