Welcoming new members to the PDI Scientific Advisory Board

PDI's scientific advisory board (SAB) consists of outstanding internationally recognized leaders in materials science. Since its establishment in 1993, this carefully selected group of experts has played an integral role in advising the institute on scientific matters, discussing and enhancing its scientific strategy, and evaluating its research activities. 

Past members have included Nobel Laureates Herbert Krömer, whose work on semiconductor heterostructures won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000, Horst L. Störmer, who discovered the fractional quantum Hall effect, revealing new quantum states of matter and winning a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998, and Klaus von Klitzing, whose discovery of the quantum Hall effect, an essential development in condensed matter physics, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1985.

The term of SAB membership is four years and each member can serve for a maximum of eight years. As 2024 draws to a close, we would like to thank all of our SAB members for their support throughout the year. In particular, we express our gratitude to outgoing members Oscar Dubon (UC Berkeley, USA), Heike Riel (IBM-Research, Zürich), and Werner Wegscheider (ETH Zürich) for their support, insights, and valuable recommendations during their time with us. 

We warmly welcome new members Eva Monroy (French Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies - CEA, Grenoble) and Christoph Koch (Humboldt University, Berlin) to the board, and look forward to a close and fruitful collaboration over the coming years.