Women In Nanofabrication (WIN)
WIN is a networking event that brings together women (and non-binary) professionals in science and industry from around the world to exchange ideas through diversity and inclusion to advance the fields of lithography and nanotechnology. For more information about the WIN community, please join the EIPBN Women in Nanofabrication Group.
WIN Monthly Meetings
The WIN meetings were launched virtually through EIPBN Gather Town during EIPBN 2021 and are ongoing. Currently, we are hosting monthly ZOOM meetings on the first Friday of each month at 3:10 PM London time. They are open for all women and non-binary scientists interested in nanofabrication. Look below for a complete list of meeting dates and speakers.
Please contact Carla Perez Martinez at carla.perezmartinez@ucl.ac.uk if you want the link to attend or if you are interested in presenting a technical talk about your research.
The WIN Lecture Series is generously sponsored by Heidelberg Instruments.
WIN New Meeting Series Speakers
Meeting Location: Virtual Meeting
Time: 7:10 AM PST, 10:10 AM EST, 3:10 PM London, 10:10 PM Beijing
Please find the latest updates below
Meeting Date
August 1
Speaker
Dr Ningxin Li
Bio: Dr. Ningxin Li is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Clark Atlanta University whose research bridges the fields of semiconductor materials, MEMS, photonics, and nanofabrication. Her work has led to multiple high-impact publications/patents and earned recognition from the broader scientific community. Dr. Li is recognized for her interdisciplinary approach with collaborators in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science and she is always welcoming integrate knowledge and foster innovation across scientific domains.
Title
Title: Exploration of Miniature Flexible Devices Empowered by van der Waals Materials
Abstract: Color perception is essential for artificial vision, but current miniaturized color sensors face a trade-off between size and accuracy. In this work, we present a compact vertical color sensor based on van der Waals semiconductors that achieves high color recognition accuracy while significantly reducing footprint. Unlike traditional lateral architectures, our vertically stacked design allows for precise spectral separation in a much smaller volume. Additionally, the device inherently corrects chromatic aberration, reducing the need for complex optical lenses. A multi-pixel prototype further demonstrates the scalability of this architecture for neuromorphic vision, AI, and micro robotics applications.
Past Meeting Series Speakers
Dr. Katja Höflich (Joint Lab for Photonic Quantum Technologies at Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) in Berlin)
Direct is beautiful: exploiting the full potential of focused electron and ion beams for nanofabrication
May 2, 2025Guest Chair: Regina Luttge (Microsystems section and Chair of Neuro-Nanoscale Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology)
General Discussion
April 4, 2025Dr. Lucy Collinson (The Francis Crick Insitute)
Imaging Life across scales with corelative and multimodal imaging
March 7, 2025Guest Chair: Natalya Kublik Crawford (The University of Texas at Austin)
Tatiana Escalante-Quinceño
Tailored Focused Electron Beam Induced Deposition nanotips for high-resolution Magnetic Force Microscopy
Amaia Saenz Hernandez
Developing superconducting devices using Focused Ion Beam for applications in quantum technologies
Gea van de Kerkhof
Correlative imaging between electron and light microscopy
February 7, 2025Lucia Herrer (Spanish Research Council)
A scientist’s path around the multidisciplinary field of nanofabrication.
January 3, 2025Ana Cohen (Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility at University of Pennsylvania)
December 6, 2024
Frances Allen (University of Kent, UK)
Exploring Atomic Effects Across Scales: A Nanofabrication Perspective
November 1, 2024
Guest Chair – Jana Chaaban (Head of Process and Applications Laboratory, Heidelberg Instruments Nano AG, Switzerland)
Jennifer Dong
Mega and nano: my engineering journey from aircraft manufacture to silicon nanowire fabrication
Ketki Srivastava
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once – Micro- and nano-fabrication for sensitive, homogeneous and spatio-temporally-resolved Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy Sensors
October 4, 2024
Monika Fleischer (Institute for Applied Physics, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany)
Exploring optical antennas and hybrid nanoantenna-systems
September 6, 2024
Gina Adam (George Washington University)
Nanoscale neuromorphics – a personal and professional journey
August 2, 2024
Dr. Laura C Zanetti-Domingues (CLF Octopus)
(Cryo-)vEM and (cryo-)CLEM at the CLF Octopus facility
July 5, 2024
Yagmur Demircan Yalcin (Eindhoven University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department)
A journey of a scientist in pursuit of curiosity
May 3, 2024
Eva de Leo (Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center)
Nanotechnology through my lens
April 5, 2024
Luisa Bozano (Applied Materials)
Electrons, Materials and all the beautiful interactions
March 1, 2024
Guest chair – Afshan Begum (Quantum Photonics Group, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
Junior researcher event
Fatemeh Kalantari, M.Sc, (Nano-electronics, RA, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Iran)
Improved sensing characteristics using Graphene Quantum Dots
Mahdieh Shojaei Baghini (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early-Stage Researcher, University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Microfabricated resonators for the UHF band
Aakanksha Sud (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Tohoku University, Japan)
Nonlinear coupling mediated by multi-magnon interactions in synthetic antiferromagnetic thin films
Plus, gain valuable career-building insights from Ann-Katrin U. Michel, Cluster Lead at Sensirion, Switzerland.
February 2, 2024
Loes Segerink (University of Twente)
The smaller, the better? Use of microfluidic devices for healthcare applications
January 5, 2024
Giulia Tagliabue (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Unraveling Hot Carrier Transfer Processes in Plasmonic Energy Devices
December 1, 2023
Leia Giorgiou (SRI International)
Nanofabrication Coast-to-Coast
November 3, 2023
Guest chair – Jana Chaaban (Heidelberg)
Junior researcher event
Wendy Chen (PhD student, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)
Using block-copolymer nanolithography to produce ultrathin SiNx isoporous membranes
Tina M. Hayward (PhD student, University of Utah)
Device fabrication for optical lever measurement of torsional motion
Chloé Bureau-Oxton (postdoc researcher at IBM Research Europe – Zürich)
A Si-MOS fin-FET as an on-tip scanning electrometer
Xia Liu (Professor in Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Multiple and Gray-Scale Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography
October 6, 2023
Follow the Nano-brick Road
September 1, 2023
Kirsten Moselund (PSI)
A career in semiconductors – electrons, photons and qubits
August 4, 2023
Marianna Sledzinska (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain)
Title Fabrication techniques for phonon engineering in low dimensional materials
July 7, 2023
Joint WIN+WAVES meeting
Networking event with an informal discussion “Enhancing professional visibility by networking via networks”
May 5, 2023
Elena Pinilla-Cienfuegos (Centro de Tecnología Nanofotónica de Valencia, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Accurate & Reproducible Method for Single Nanoparticle Positioning on Nanostructures
April 7, 2023
Guest Chair: Natalya Kublik (Arizona State University)
Young Investigators
Beihang Yu (Postdoc at the Berkeley Lab, working with Dr. Ricardo Ruiz and Dr. Ron Zuckermann)
Bioinspired, sequence-defined polymer brushes as patternable surface modification monolayers for semiconductor/bio interfaces
Petrovic Jelena (PhD in microtechnology and currently a Scientist Postdoc ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland with Lucia Romano)
Microstructured fiber-based probes for application in optogenetics
Adan Azem (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Infrared waveguide integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (work in progress)
January 6, 2023
Leeya Engel (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
There is no single track to the tenure track: my experience from PhD and Postdoc to Assistant Prof.
December 2, 2022
Carla Perez Martinez (UCL)
Using rockets in nanomanufacturing
November 4, 2022
Updates from our young investigators
Afshan Begum, National Institute for Materials Science and University of Tsukuba (Japan) – Fabrication of large array photonic crystals to observe double Dirac-cones materialized by accidental degeneracy
Alba Arroyo-Fructuoso, University of Valencia (Spain) – Modulation of the Critical Current Induced by an Electric Field in Superconducting Nanowires Grown by He+ FIBID
Sarah Spector, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) – Nonplanar Nanofabrication via Interface Engineering
Mengdi Bao, Rochester Institute of Technology (USA) – Simple, Sensitive and Instrument-free Detection of Viral Nucleic Acids
Victoria Ravel, George Washington University (USA) – Dual-compartment microelectrode array for investigation of neuronal network media exchange
October 7, 2022
Farnaz Niouri (MIT)
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
September 2, 2022
Sijia Xie (Shanghai Industrial mTechnology Research Institute (SITRI), Shanghai, China)
Hybrid structures by direct write lithography—Tuning the contrast and surface topography of grayscale photoresist with nanoimprint (JVSTB- EIPBN 2022 Best Paper Award)
August 5, 2022
Theda Daniels-Race (LSU)
One of These Things is Not Like the Others: An African-American Woman’s Journey to the Academy
July 2, 2022
Jessica Andriolo (Montana Technological University and Alpha Technology, LLC)
Applied Nanoscale Solutions for the Environment, Medicine, and Materials Fabrication
May 6, 2022
Grande walk: Highlight on students and postdocs posters
Poster session and Exhibition Hall EIPBN 2021
April 1, 2022
Dr. Lucia Romano (ETH Zurich; Paul Scherrer Institute; and University of Catania)
Gas phase MacEtch: unparalleled high aspect ratio silicon nanostructures
March 4, 2022
Dr. Rosa Córdoba Castillo (Universitat de València)
How I went from PhD to junior lead researcher
February 4, 2022
Helen Kardan, ASML
My career path through the cultures
January 7, 2022
Dr. Alexandra Joshi-Imre (University of Texas at Dallas)
Microfabrication of neural interface electrode arrays for chronic in-vivo applications
Yutika Badhe (University of Texas at Dallas)
Stretchable electronics based on a nanofiber reinforced soft composite material
December 3, 2021
Dr. Elizabeth A. Dobisz (Senior Consultant at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
My example of a career path in Nanofabrication
November 5, 2021
Dr. Anuja DeSilva (Lam Research)
My career path learnings in Semiconductor Research: How to persevere and advocate?
October 1, 2021
Natalya Kublik (Arizona State)
Increasing density of additively manufactured copper parts utilizing solid-nanoporous hybrid feedstock with higher energy absorption properties
WIN Honorees
Shida Tan
2025 Honoree / 2018 Program Chair
Dr. Shida Tan is a Principal Engineer at Intel’s physical debug technology development group, where she is leading cross-industry R&D projects to develop advanced technologies for on-die circuit analysis for advanced semiconductor process nodes. She is broadly recognized across the industry for spearheading advanced ion beam research and applications in the field of semiconductor circuit edit, failure analysis, fault isolation, and low yield analysis. Dr. Tan authored over 130 technical publications including a book chapter, 16 issued and pending patents, and 3 Intel trade secrets. She holds leadership positions in various professional organizations, including serving as 2018 EIPBN Program Chair.
Rebecca Cheung
2024 Honoree / 2013 Program Chair
Professor Rebecca Cheung currently holds a Chair in Nanoelectronics and is Head of the Research Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom. In 2012, she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Her major research interests to date span: micro- nano- fabrication technology; process-related defects; microwave electronics; low dimensional transport, optical spectroscopy, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and two-dimensional materials and devices.
Stella W. Pang
2023 Honoree / 1996 Program Chair
Stella W. Pang is a Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Biosystems, Neuroscience, and Nanotechnology at the City University of Hong Kong, China. Previously, she served as Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Michigan and as Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. She has over 400 technical articles, book chapters, and invited presentations. Prof. Pang has eleven patents granted in nanotechnology and microsystems and three pending. Her research interests include nanofabrication technology for biomedical, microelectromechanical, THz and metadevices. Prof. Pang is a Fellow of IEEE, ECS, AVS, and HKIE.
Elizabeth Dobisz
2022 Honoree / 2009 Program Chair
Liz has been attending 3-Beams since 1989 and she has made over 30 presentations at EIPBN. Her research interests included e-beam lithography, STM lithography, resists and resist processes that affect resolution, self-assembled monolayer patterning, compositional mixing of superlattices, fabrication of X-ray and Nanoimprint Lithography Masks, bit patterned magnetic media, and patterning MRAM storage
devices. Liz has served EIPBN as section head on the program committee for 15 years, on the Steering Committee for 5 years, and the Advisory Committee for 11 years. In 2009 She served as Program Chair.