Mihir Date Selected for the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Mihir Date, PhD student in Prof. Niels Schröter's group at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, will attend the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. From 28 June to 3 July, he will meet more than 70 Nobel laureates and over 600 other researchers from 88 countries.
Participation in the meeting is a unique opportunity, as it is granted only once to early-career researchers. Mihir Date has been working at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle since 2021, where he is pursuing his PhD in the group of MLU physicist Prof. Dr. Niels Schröter. He investigates layered quantum materials in which electrons are largely confined to atomically thin sheets. Although the layers are only weakly coupled, even small interactions between them can significantly modify the electronic structure. Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy alongside electronic structure theory, he probes how electrons disperse and interact in these systems. His work focuses on how interlayer coupling reshapes the electronic structure and influences the emergence of correlated electronic phases.
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting brings together outstanding early-career researchers and Nobel laureates, creating opportunities for direct exchange. Mihir Date is particularly keen to meet Duncan Haldane, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016. “The beginning of my scientific journey coincided with the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics on topological phases, which inspired me to pursue condensed matter physics and electronic structure theory, a direction I have continued during my experimental PhD. I would be grateful for the opportunity to meet Prof. F. D. M. Haldane and learn more about his recent work on cuprates,” says Date.
About the Nobel Laureate Meeting
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting has been held in Lindau since 1951. It is dedicated alternately to the Nobel Prize disciplines of Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine. An interdisciplinary meeting takes place every five years, and the Lindau Meeting of Economic Sciences every three years. After attending, participants become part of the global Lindau Alumni Network.
