Daniel Loss Received the 2024 Jan Czochralski Award for Lifetime Research Achievement in Materials Science

The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) announced that Prof. Daniel Loss, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel, has been honored with the Jan Czochralski Award 2024. This recognition highlights his outstanding contributions to materials science over the course of his career.

The award, named after Jan Czochralski, acknowledges the pioneering development of the Czochralski method. This technique revolutionized the production of single crystals, a key step in the creation of semiconductor wafers, particularly in materials like germanium and silicon. Today, nearly all semiconductor-based electronics rely on materials manufactured using this method. The award was officially presented at the E-MRS Fall meeting in Warsaw this September.

Daniel Loss is internationally renowned for seminal contributions to condensed matter theory and quantum information processing in semiconductors and molecular magnets. His work on spin qubits in quantum dots laid the foundation to the field which is being explored in the NCCR SPIN.

He serves as a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Basel, Co-Director of the NCCR SPIN, and Director of the Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence (QC2) in Basel.