Bringing the MCQST Community Together
In its first year, MCQST developed a number of programs to strengthen its scientific community. At MCQST, we believe in the strength of an open atmosphere and equal opportunity. In order to implement our goal to create and maintain an open atmosphere and equal opportunities for everyone we laid the basis of our diversity, equity, and inclusion measures in 2019. We approached the topic from two different angles: First, with a focus on anti-discrimination and creating a network and community of allies and active bystanders. Second, by supporting minorities within QST.
The Diversity in Leadership Program is an example of how we want to introduce an awareness for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion topics in the wider MCQST community. 17 outstanding junior researchers formed the first cohort of this program that focuses on educating future leaders in QST. Together they will take part in workshops on unconscious bias, conflict management and gender in physics, but will also reflect on their own values and responsibilities as future leaders in QST. To support women in the MCQST community, we had the first call for application for our MCQST mentoring program, which aims to connect female researchers on a PhD and postdoc level with specialists from academia and industry. Our events included a diversity coffee, a panel discussion on Academic career and family together with SFB 1032, and a Women@MCQST lunch.
Events for the MCQST Community
Quantum X-Mas Party
Join us for a quantum party celebration together with the MCQST Community.
Academic career and family
Academic career and family? Join us for an exchange of ideas and experiences.
Women @ MCQST Lunch
Join us for the first Women @ MCQST lunch, for an informal discussion about challenges and opportunities.
Diversity & Coffee at MCQST
Join us for coffee and cake to kick off our equal opportunity, familiy, and diversity programs!
MQC Guests
As a core part of the cluster's collaboration strategy, MCQST connected international top-level experts to the QST network in Munich by implementing a vibrant guest program, bringing esteemed guests for short-term visits in the area. This helped raise the visibility of QST research in Munich and supported junior researchers in building their own international research network.
Tomasz Paterek
NTU Singapore, Singapore
Quantum Correlations and Quantum State Tomography
Visited the Weinfurter group in May 2019
Mihir K. Bhaskar
Harvard University, USA
Quantum Optics with Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Visited the Finley group in June 2019
Minh-Binh Tran
Southern Methodist University, USA
Mathematical Physics and Kinetic Theory
Visited the Nam group in July-August 2019
Miguel Frías Pérez
University of Barcelona, Spain
Many-Body Quantum Systems
Visited the Bañuls group in December 2019
Viviana Villafañe
Centro Atómico Bariloche & Instituto Balseiro, Argentina
Cavity Quantum Optomechanics and Photonics
Visited the Finley group in May 2019
Nobuyuki Imoto
Osaka University, Japan
Correlated Photons
Visited the Weinfurter group in June 2019
Bruno Nachtergaele
University of California at Davis, USA
Many-Body Quantum Systems
Visited the Warzel and Wolf groups in August-September 2019
Marco Tomamichel
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Quantum Information Theory
Visited the König group in December 2019
Eugenio Coronado
University of Valencia, Spain
Interfacial Metal-Organic Nanosystems and Networks
Visited the Barth group in Summer 2019
David Weld
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics
Visited the Bloch group in June-July 2019
Michael Jabbour & Hao-Chung Cheng
University of Cambridge, UK
Quantum Networks
Visited the König group in November 2019