Leibniz Prize for LMU researcher Dmitri Efetov

For his pioneering work on the manufacture of highly homogeneous ‘magic-angle’ graphene, Dmitri Efetov has been awarded a 2024 Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Dmitri Efetov has occupied the Chair of Experimental Solid State Physics at LMU since August 2021. Having studied physics at ETH Zurich, Efetov began researching graphene while doing his doctorate at Columbia University, New York. Subsequently, he worked as a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona. While there, he and his group were the third research team anywhere in the world to demonstrate superconductivity in magic-angle graphene. In 2021, he took up an appointment as Chair of Experimental Solid State Physics at LMU Munich.

Awarded by the German Research Foundation, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is considered the most important research award in Germany. This year, the prize will be given out to ten scientists. The winning scientists can use the prize money of 2.5 million euros for their research work for a period of up to seven years.

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