A Young ENSTA Graduate Invited to the Lindau Meetings

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Paulina Lohbeck Invited to the Lindau Meetings

The Lindau Meetings are an international scientific forum that brings together dozens of Nobel laureates and some of the world’s most promising young researchers each year. Founded in 1951, these meetings aim to foster dialogue across generations, disciplines, and cultures, in order to pass on the experience of leading scientists and stimulate future collaborations. Paulina Lohbeck, an ENSTA class of 2024 graduate who will soon begin her doctoral thesis at Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, is among the young researchers selected to participate in the 75th edition, which begins on June 28.

A graduate of the Class of 2024 of the ENSTA general engineering program with a specialization in applied mathematics, Paulina Lohbeck simultaneously earned a dual master’s degree in photonics from the University of Jena. During this master’s program, she had the opportunity to conduct research on two-dimensional semiconductor materials, which are considered highly promising for the optical and electronic technologies of the future.

Her research is part of a very promising trend in modern physics, which involves seeking new ways to process information using certain quantum properties of materials. In the two-dimensional semiconductors she studies, the states created by light can be associated with two distinct “electronic valleys.” These valleys could be used to encode, store, or transmit information, much like the 0s and 1s in classical computing. The challenge today is to gain better control over them in order to design future optoelectronic components and, in the longer term, to contribute to the development of quantum technologies.

Paulina Lohbeck’s master’s thesis on nanoresonators

Drawn to the opportunities offered by the Lindau Meetings, Paulina Lohbeck decided, with the support of the University of Jena and ENSTA, to submit an application for this special 75th-anniversary edition of the event, which will be attended by Nobel laureates from all disciplines.

As a recent graduate of a multidisciplinary engineering school who is currently pursuing a master’s degree in photonics, I thought I would have a great deal to learn from these distinguished senior scholars—not only in my own field, but also in very different disciplines. I am particularly looking forward to participating in a “science walk” with Professor Anne L’Huillier—an opportunity for a more informal exchange during a walk, a format unique to the Lindau Meetings—as well as to discussing ideas with other physicists and researchers from different fields. It is precisely this diversity of approaches that, in my view, makes these meetings so enriching and can spark new ideas for my own research.

Paulina Lohbeck ENSTA 2024 - Gates Cambridge Scholarship Recipient
Paulina Lohbeck, ENSTA 2024, lauréate de la bourse Gates Cambridge

More generally, Paulina Lohbeck hopes that these meetings with Nobel laureates—as well as with other young researchers—will lead to new opportunities for collaboration and help her learn how to develop research projects that stand the test of time.

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