Talks & Awards – Robbie Elbertse

2025 – George Mason University Physics Colloquium
“Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: the machine that can see, move and manipulate individual atoms”
Approx. attendance: ~35 faculty and researchers.
2025 – American Vacuum Society 71st Yearly Conference (AVS-71)
“Design, Construction, and Performance of a Dilution Refrigerator-Based ESRSPM System with Cryogenic Switche”
Approx. attendance: ~50 researchers.
2023 – NIST Nanoscale Device Characterization Division Seminar
"Lifetime of an atomic spin chain"
Approx. attendence: ~30 faculty and researchers.

2025, APS Global Summit – Talk on electronic noise considerations with RF lines in an ESRSTM.
2023, APS March Meeting – Talk on long-lived magnetization in engineered spin chains.
2023, NWO Physics @ Veldhoven – Talk on long-lived magnetization in engineered spin chains.
2022, IVC-22 – Talk on long-lived magnetization in engineered spin chains.
2021, International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICN+T) [Digital] – Talk on remote detection of magnons on atoms.
2021, NanoMRI @ Lorentz Institute [Digital] – Talk on antenna design for ESRSTM.
2019, Dutch Scanning Probe Microscopy Day – Talk on remote detection of magnons on atoms.

High-quality 3D animations and visual explanations used in talks and for scientific outreach.

Physical Review Letters – First-author paper selected as Editor’s Suggestion and article featured in "Physics" magazine.
Sigma Xi Early Career Poster – Most Outstanding Poster Presentation (2024).
Dutch Physics Magazine – Third place yearly competition best article by young scientists (2021)

Interview on the Finding Genius Podcast – discussion of atomic-scale sensing and STM-based spin detection.
Public dissemination of research via r/science , reaching a broad, non-specialist audience.