Nanoquanta Network of Excellence

Nanoscale Quantum Simulations for Nanostructures and Advanced Materials

Nanoquanta was a Network of Excellence performing fundamental Physics research funded by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme.

The Network performed research within the Third Thematic Priority of the Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area activity of the Sixth Framework Programme: nanotechnologies and nanosciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices, known as "NMP".

The project ran from 1 June 2004 to 30 November 2008 and consisted of 10 nodes and over 100 researchers.

Partners in the Network

1. University of York (Team Leader: Prof. Rex Godby, Department of Physics)
2. Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin (Team Leaders: Prof. Matthias Scheffler, Dr. Arno Schindlmayr and Dr. Patrick Rinke, Theory Department)
3. Freie Universität, Berlin (Team Leader: Prof. Hardy Gross, Department of Physics)
4. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (Team Leader: Prof. Friedhelm Bechstedt and Dr. Jürgen Furthmüller, Institut für Festkörpertheorie und Theoretische Optik)
5. Université Catholique de Louvain (Team Leader: Prof. Xavier Gonze, Unité de Physico-Chimie et de Physique des Matériaux)
6. Lunds Universitet (Team Leaders: Prof. Carl-Olof Almbladh and Prof. Ulf von Barth, Department of Solid-State Theory)
7. Universitá degli Studi di Milano (Team Leader: Prof. Giovanni Onida, Department of Physics)
8. Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés*(Paris) (Team Leader: Dr. Lucia Reining)
9. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (Rome) (Team Leader: Prof. Rodolfo Del Sole, Department of Physics, Universita´ degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
10. Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (San Sebastián) (Team Leaders: Prof. Pedro Echenique and Prof. Angel Rubio, Facultad de Quimicas and Donostia International Physics Center)

*The Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés is a joint research laboratory of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique and Ecole Polytechnique.

Associate Members

Associate Membership allows former Ph.D. students and post-doctorial researchers who are no longer employed by a node, but who continue to contribute significantly to Nanoquanta's work, to retain a formal affiliation with the Network.

• Michel Bockstedte, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, formerly of San Sebastián;
• Peter Bokes, Slovak University of Technology, formerly of York;
• Christoph Freysoldt, Max-Planck-Institut Für Eisenforshung, Düsseldorf, formerly of Louvain-la-Neuve;
• Pablo García-Gonzáles, UNED, Madrid, formerly of San Sebastián;
• Miguel Marques, University of Coimbra, formerly of San Sebastián and Berlin (associated with San Sebastián);
• Valerio Olevano, CNRS, Institut NEEL, Grenoble, formerly of Paris;
• Arno Schindlmayr, Universität Paderborn, formerly of Berlin FHI;
• Gianluca Stefanucci, Universita´ degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, formerly of the Freie Universität, Berlin.
• Kristian Thygesen, Technical University of Denmark, formerly of San Sebastián.
• Daniele Varsano, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, formerly of San Sebastián;
• Ludger Wirtz, IEMN, Lille, formerly of San Sebastián;

Network Officers

• Network Coordinator: Professor Rex Godby, University of York
• Deputy Coordinator: Dr Lucia Reining, Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés
• Network Administrator: Mr Tony Patman, University of York

Network Objectives

"The Nanoquanta Network of Excellence integrates and develops the research capabilities of ten European teams in the field of the fundamental science of nanoscale systems and advanced materials, exploiting the powerful combination of quantum-mechanical theory and computer simulation to make contact with nanoscience experimental studies and also directly with technologically relevant electronic, dynamic and optical processes.

Through scientific publications, worshops and conferences, training, and contact with experimental and applied research groups in European universities, research institutions and other organisations, Nanoquanta's ongoing work is disseminated widely.

The Network is intended to evolve into a European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), with strong links with a wide range of research groups and available for collaboration with users from across science and industry in projects concerned with nanoscale systems and advanced materials."

The above text was composed shortly after the grant ended in 2008. Accordingly, each link above is to a near-contemporary copy of the relevant web page obtained from the Internet Archive.

Summary and list of publications of the Nanoquanta project
The current ETSF web site
Rex Godby's home page