The Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft has a highly international character with faculty members coming to Delft from all over the world. Many of the scientific staff had their education at renowned universities such as Stanford, Harvard, or Oxford. The Institute recently grew from 25 to 50 leading scientists (faculty members) and it projects further growth.
Novel quantum material and quantum device design and creation
Quantum sensing with spins in diamond
Topological systems and quantum transport
Biophysics, biomolecular machines, lipid membranes, biomimetics
Experimental evolution, synthetic biology and biophysics
Quantum transport and dynamics in solid-state nanostructures
Cavity and microwave optomechanics
Bacteriophage resistance, CRISPR, Genome editing, Microbiology, Antibiotic resistance, Phage therapy
Microbiology, metabolomics, synthetic biology
Electron Microscopy of low-dimensional nanostructured quantum materials and devices
Designer Quantum Materials
Membrane biophysics, synthetic cell research, origins of cellular life
Single-molecule biophysics, nanopores, bacterial chromatin stucture, synthetic cell division
Single-molecule biophysics, transcription, replication, chromatin, bacterial swimming, live cell imaging
Theoretical modeling of molecular machines
Superconducting quantum circuits
Cell biophysics, cytoskeleton, artificial cells, optical tweezers, micro fluidics
Majorana zero modes, mesoscopic superconductivity, 2D electron gases
Quantum optomechanics, photonic-/phononic-crystals, quantum optics
Quantum information, quantum optics, quantum sensing
Theoretical biophysics
Electron cryo-microscopy, protein crystallography, structural biology of molecular machines
Single-molecule studies (microRNA, CRISPR, protein sequencing)
Cell/tissue mechanics, synthetic cells, mechanobiology
Condensed matter physicist with a focus on topological quantum computing
nanophotonics, singular optics, light-matter interactions & near-field microscopy
Biophysics, quantitative cell biology and evolution
Quantitative cell biology, cryo-electron microscopy, molecular and cellular neuroscience
Theory of quantum transport
Atomic assembly, quantum magnetism
Group IV materials for quantum technologies, nanofabrication, quantum transport
Quantum nanomechanics
Nanophysics, sensors, transistors, 2D materials, industrial applications
Quantum networks, experimental quantum information, solid-state spins
Chaperone-guided protein folding, Bacterial evolution, and Organoid biophysics
Theory of molecular electronics
Experimental quantum communication, Entanglement, Light-matter interaction in rare-earth-doped crystals
Quantum computing, semiconductor spins, quantum transport
Silicon quantum computation, spin qubits, supersilicon
Quantum networks, quantum information theory
Quantum condensed matter physics
Nanoelectronics, molecular electronics, 2D materials