QuMat 2025 Yearly meeting in Utrecht
Please note – after receiving the registrations, we have decided to make the yearly meeting two days instead of the original three.
The second QuMat yearly meeting will take place 27 – 28 October in Utrecht at the Anatomiegebouw!
The Yearly meeting is a three-day meeting where all QuMat scientists, associated members as well as the two advisory boards (SAC / ISOAC) are invited.
During these days we come together to share scientific results, discus challenges and opportunities within the consortium, and find new cross-pillar collaborations.
Registration
Registration for contributions is closed. Please reach out to the office if you still want to joint the meeting!
Program
Program in calendar form
Monday 2025-10-27
- 09:00 – 10:00 Registration
- 10:00 – 10:20 Welcome + Isabel Arends+Office Things
- 10:20 – 11:05 Plenary Talk – Paola Gori-Giorgi – Accurate and scalable exchange-correlation with deep learning
- 11:05 – 11:25 Berkay Kilic – Universal symmetry-enforced persistent spin textures in nonmagnetic crystals
- 11:25 – 11:45 Lucas Maisel Licerán – Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation of moat-band excitons
- 11:45 – 12:05 William Huddie – Microscopic theory of atomic spin diodes
- 12:05 – 13:25 Lunch
- 13:25 – 14:10 Plennary Talk – Ralph Claessen – Surfaces go topological – atomic monolayers as 2D quantum materials
- 14:10 – 14:30 Padraig Maderson – Anomalous Hall Effect in Cr:Mn3Sn
- 14:30 – 14:50 Andrey Bagrov – Superconducting properties of hyperbolic lattices
- 14:50 – 15:25 Break + group photo
- 15:25 – 15:45 Dennis Klaasen – Decorated electronic kagome lattice in twisted bilayer germanene
- 15:45 – 16:05 Yoran Starmans – Emergent superconductivity in selective-area grown SnTe nanowires
- 16:05 – 16:25 Joost Aretz – From strong to weak correlations in breathing-mode kagome van der Waals materials Nb3(F,Cl,Br,I)8
- 16:25 – 16:45 Chiara Cocchi – Quantum oscillations and bulk superconductivity in Weyl semimetal PtBi2
- 16:45 – 17:00 Pause
- 17:00 – 18:00 Panel Discussion (Life after PHD)
- 18:00 – 19:30 Dinner
Tuesday 2025-10-28
- 08:30 – 09:00 Registration / walk in
- 09:00 – 09:20 Steven Bos – Investigating exciton physics in defected TMD’s using a first-principles tight-binding approach.
- 09:20 – 09:40 Krishnaraajan Sundararajan – Tunable magnon contribution to the thermal conductivity in CrPS 4 observed via transverse Seebeck Effect in TaIrTe4
- 09:40 – 10:00 Bibplab Bhattacharyya – Multi-channel second-order topological states in 3D Dirac semimetal Bi0.97Sb0.03
- 10:00 – 10:30 Poster Pitch
- 10:30 – 11:20 Poster session
- 11:20 – 11:40 Zeb Osseweijer – Haldane model on the Sierpiński gasket
- 11:40 – 12:00 Semonti Bhattacharyya – TBA
- 12:00 – 12:20 Bowy a Riviere – Extended Ashkin-Teller transition in two coupled frustrated Haldane chains
- 12:20 – 12:40 Lumen Eek – Spin Valley locking in Buckled Twisted Bilayer Honeycomb systems
- 12:40 – 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 – 14:20 Julian Strik – Tuneable spin-orbit coupling in tailored atomic semiconductor quantum dots
- 14:20 – 14:40 Cristina Mier Gonzalez – Nuclear magnetic resonance on a single atom with a local probe
- 14:40 – 15:25 Plenary Talk – Sebastian Huber
- 15:25 – 15:35 Closure
- 15:45 – 17:15 EB Meeting – EB + Pillar leaders
- 18:00 – 19:30 Dinner – EB + Guest
Posters
| Chrystalla | Knekna | University of Groningen |
| Pim | Lueb | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Thomas | Winkler | Radboud Universiteit |
| Shuang | Wu | Radboud University |
| Diego Felipe | Munoz Arboleda | Utrecht University |
| Esra | van ‘t Westende | University of Twente |
| Guliuxin | Jin | TU Delft |
| Jinyu | Zhang | leiden |
| Karina | Hudson | TU Delft |
| Kevin | Vonk | University of Twente |
| Muhammad | Waseem | University of Groningen |
| Rebecca | Gharibaan | TU Delft |
| Thijs | Roskamp | University of Twente |
| Viktoriia | Radovskaia | Radboud University |
| Yuliia | Kreminska | University of Groningen |
Registration for contributions is closed. Please reach out to the office if you still want to joint the meeting!
Anatomiegebouw
Bekkerstraat 141
3572 SG Utrecht
External speakers
Ralph Claessen, Universitat Wurzburg
Paola Gori-Giorgi, Microsoft Research
Sebastian Huber, ETH Zurich
Evening Activity
On the Monday evening (27 October) there will be a social activity after the dinner. When? 20:00 – 22:00.
At the location (Ozebi Snooker) you can choose to play pool and/or laser-tag. In order to know how many of each to book, please indicate your preference below.
We will walk together to Ozebi Snooker at Biltstraat 4, 3572 BA Utrecht which will take about 10 minutes.
A separate form will be send to all participants ro register the activity preferences.
Hotels
University Utrecht has deals with many local hotels. A list with recommended hotels can be seen below.
| Hotel | Code | Discount | www | |
| Courthotel Museumkwartier BV | Universiteit Utrecht 2025 | 12% | www.courthotel.nl | welcome@courthotel.nl |
| Crowne Plaza Utrecht – Central Station | Universiteit Utrecht | 12% | www.crownplaza.nl | info@cputrecht.nl / groups.cp@cputrecht.nl |
| Eye hotel | Universiteit Utrecht 2025 | 12% | www.esh.nl | receptie@esh.nl |
| Hampton by Hilton | 3296745 | 12% | Hampton Utrecht | fo.utrecht@hilton.com |
| Leonardo Hotel Utrecht City Center | UNUTX17S | 15% | www.leonardo-hotels.nl | reservations.utrecht@leonardo-hotels.nl |
| Moxy Utrecht | E5451 | 17% | www.marriot.com/AMSOU | crew.amsou@hotelco51.com |
| NH Hotels Centre Utrecht | 2004366100 | 15% | www.nh-hotels.com/nl/hotel/NH-centre-utrecht | nhcentrumutrecht@nh-hotels.com |
Local organizers
The yearly meeting is organized locally by Daniel Vanmaekelbergh and Cristiane de Morais Smith, together with the QuMat office.