Category: Projects
Since the first of January 2025, the QuATOMs group has been strengthened with a new member: Minh-Thu Bui.
She is an expert in polymer chemistry, with a MSc in Polymers for advanced Technologies from the university of GrĂ©noble. The coming four years she will be working on the QuantumLignin project. In this project, she’ll investigate the structure-property relations of lignin building blocks, with the aim of creating an additive model suitable for predicting the properties of mixed lignin samples. With her life motto: “Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.” I’m sure we can expect great things to happen in the theoretical lignin field, the coming years.
Welcome to the QuATOMs team, we look forward to your enthusiasm and the intuition you bring to the team.
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During the last year, Esin Aylin Melan worked hard at her MSc Thesis within the QuATOMs group. Her research focus was centered on the impact of strain on the zero-phonon-line of the GeV color center in diamond. This work she presented, together with Thijs van Wijk, at the SBDD conference in Hasselt, and was presented as well at both the BPS and EMRS spring meeting of 2024. Before the summer she gave her (very good and enthusiastic) final presentation of the MSc thesis results, bringing her first real research project to good end. (Paper will follow later đŸ™‚ )
Recently, she also received the great news that she was awarded a bilateral PhD Scholarship between UHasselt & UNamur. So from September first, she has started working on the modeling of color centers in diamond and oxides for the coming four years. Welcome to the QuATOMs team, and congratulations on the scholarship. We look forward to the enthusiasm and insights you’ll bring to the team.
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Today we had our fourth consortium meeting for the DigiLignin project. Things are moving along nicely, with a clear experimental database almost done by VITO, the Machine Learning model taking shape at UMaastricht, and quantum mechanical modeling providing some first insights.
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Since the first of January 2025, the QuATOMs group has been strengthened with a new member: Minh-Thu Bui.
During the last year,