The scientific council of NEXT "Scientific Advisory Board" (SAB) met for the 4th time on February 25, 2015 to select scientific projects in response to the 4th call for proposal.

• Plenary Meeting 8:30 to 12:30: scientific presentations of eleven preselected projects
• Meeting of the selection project committee (SAB members in huis-clos meeting)
• Strategy meeting in the presence of supervisory bodies: Christophe Girard, CNRS, and Pierre Aimar, COMUE

Selected projects

Among the eleven projects selected by the Scientific Council, the Executive Committee (EC) has decided to award funding to 8 projects showing structuring actions inter-lab, intergroup and / or interdisciplinary in NEXT. These projects point scientific excellence underlined by the Scientific & Advisory Board (SAB).

This call for proposal provides funding of 407 k€ equipment and running and reserves 200 k€ for hiring PhDs in the 2015 budget.

4 collaborative projects:

•   TRAFIC (quantum TRAnsport Fluctuations wIth Cold atoms)
  Coordinator’s name: David Guéry-Odelin - LCAR
  Laboratories / teams: LPT
  Funding: 141 k€ including 12 months of postdoc - 3 years duration

• ELESIHS (ELectronic structure and Electrical Spin Injection in ferromagnetic Metal/Oxide/Semiconductor HYbrid Systems)
  Coordinator’s name: Pierre Renucci - LPCNO OPTO
  Laboratories / teams: CEMES NMAT, CEMES MC2
  Funding: 108 k€ including 12 months of postdoc - 3 years duration

• IVIBECA (Infrared and Visible Imaging of magnetic losses for Biomedical, Electromagnetic and Catalysis Applications)
  Coordinator’s name: Jean-François Bobo - CEMES NMAT
  Laboratories / teams: LPCNO
  Funding: 102 k€ including 12 months of postdoc - 2 years duration

• SWEET (Stellar Wind and Electrons interactions on astrophysical molecules: Experiment and Theory)
  Coordinator’s name: Jean-Philippe Champeaux - LCAR
  Laboratories / teams: LCPQ, LPT
  Funding: 114 k€ including 12 months of postdoc - 2 years duration

• 4 "disruptive" projects:

• LANCE ( Silicon Plasmonics at the Nanoscale)
  Coordinator’s name: Vincent Paillard - CEMES NMAT
  Funding: 30 k€ - Durée : 2 years duration

• HEUMAC (HEUsler based MAgnonic Crystals)
  Coordinator’s name: Nicolas Bizière - CEMES NMAT
  Funding: 40 k€ - 2 years duration

• PLEXMOS (Plasmons and Excitons in Au-MoS2 hybrid Nanostructures)
  Coordinator’s name: Adnen Mlayah - CEMES NMAT
  Funding:: 32 k€ - 2 years duration

• MEGATER (THz magnetospectroscopy of magnetic silicides under Megagauss fields)
  Coordinator’s name: Oleksiy Drachenko - LNCMI
  Funding: 40 k€ - 2 years duration