Marta Gibert has received the grant with a project on Functional oxide heterostructures by design. She will be appointed as professor at the University of Zürich. Her research interests are in oxide materials and, particularly, in the emergent physics phenomena arising when these materials are treated at the atomic scale. At UNIGE, in the group of Prof. Jean-Marc Triscone, she has mainly focused on interface engineering of nickelate functional heterostructures.
SNFS professorships address young researchers who intend to pursue an academic career and wish to establish their own team to realise a research project.
For the excellence of her scientific work, she has been granted a scholarship of excellence in the past, a three years appointment as Senior researcher at the University of Geneva.