Farzan Gity

Dr Farzan Gity is a Senior Staff Researcher at Tyndall, where he serves as Principal Investigator (PI) of an Intel-funded project on two-dimensional (2D) materials. He is also a Funded Investigator (FI) at the Research Ireland (previously Science Foundation Ireland (SFI))-funded AMBER Research Centre. At Tyndall, Dr Gity leads a research team comprising three PhD students and six postdoctoral researchers, including three Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Fellows, contributing to their professional development and fostering innovation in 2D materials and nanoelectronics.

Dr Gity’s research focuses on emerging materials and devices for future nanoelectronics, ICT, and spintronics applications. His work spans the fabrication, characterisation, and modelling of devices, with an emphasis on addressing key technological challenges critical to the continued evolution of integrated circuits (ICs) beyond Moore’s Law. He has developed extensive expertise in nanoscale material analysis, simulation and design, as well as in the fabrication and characterisation of electronic and photonic devices through collaborative industry projects and high-impact research delivery.

Dr Gity has received several prestigious awards, including the Best PhD Student BOC Bursary in 2013 and UCC’s Early-Stage Researcher of the Year Award in 2019. He is Ireland’s sole delegate to the Management Committee of the EU-COST Action CA23136 on “Magnetism and Chirality: Twisting Spins, Light, and Lattices for Faster-than-Ever Spintronics (CHIROMAG)”. He was the PI of the EU-FET OPEN INTERFAST project (2021–2024) and the EU-H2020 SaSHa project (2016–2018). In 2017, he received a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Technology Innovation and Development Award (TIDA) for work on integrating dissimilar materials for novel electronic applications, with an emphasis on understanding carrier transport through interfaces. In 2016, he was awarded an Irish Research Council (IRC) Fellowship to explore 2D semimetal materials for nanoelectronics applications.

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