The 2DFERROPLEX project held its 1st Spring Consortium Meeting on 29 and 30 April 2026 at the Walter Schottky Institute, on the campus of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Garching, Germany. The two-day event, organized by the team of Prof. Jonathan Finley (TUM), brought together 20 project members to review progress since the project’s kick-off and define the next steps for the coming months.
The meeting started with a presentation by Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, project coordinator from CRHEA–CNRS. Reserbat-Plantey outlined some of the technical and administrative milestones reached and deliverables submitted since the project was kicked off in November 2025, and detailed the two deliverables scheduled for the upcoming months.
Day One: Progress Reports and Parallel Sessions
Following the opening session, each of the 7 consortium partners presented the work carried out over the first six months of the project, covering progress in sample fabrication and facility preparation. The afternoon included parallel session, one for principal investigators and one for students, providing an opportunity to reinforce working relationships across the consortium. Participants also had the option to take part in a guided tour of the Walter Schottky Institute research laboratories.
The first day concluded with a social dinner, offering project members additional time for informal exchanges.
Day Two: Discussion and Next Steps
The second day began with a review and open discussion of the previous day’s presentations. Based on this exchange, the consortium established priorities for the months ahead. Key topics included the need to develop calibration samples and to define the specifications of the targeted 2D ferroelectric materials for the development of neuromorphic devices.
It was also agreed that the next Spring Consortium Meeting will be hosted at ICFO in spring 2027.
“This first project meeting has been a great opportunity to get together and meet the students and postdocs who recently joined the project,” said Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, 2DFERROPLEX project coordinator.
“A few days before the meeting, some of our newly hired students had already been trained in Munich on key fabrication techniques, a first concrete example of the collaborative spirit we want to build across the consortium. We are now evaluating how to genuinely work together at scale: exchanging samples, training students, and sharing expertise. All partners are aligned and on track to achieve the first milestones of the project,” concluded the researcher from CRHEA–CNRS.