Sander Driessen is a doctoral candidate in Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), affiliated with the Computational Materials Physics group. During his MSc at TU/e, Sander spent a year in Basel working in the group of Prof. Daniel Loss, where he developed theory for spin-qubit systems and explored how correlated noise can be harnessed to generate and stabilize entanglement. Sander’s research spans quantum information theory and computational materials science, with current work focusing on emergent chiral phenomena in low-dimensional perovskites using density-functional theory and tight-binding models. At TU/e he contributes to the discovery and modelling of chiral perovskites for optoelectronic and photonic applications.

Sander Driessen investigates how structural chirality in metal-halide perovskites gives rise to distinctive optical and spin phenomena, and how these effects can be engineered for next-generation optoelectronic and spintronic devices. His current work bridges first-principles theory and model Hamiltonians: using DFT workflows and tight-binding models to connect lattice chirality, electronic structure, and chiroptical response, while building many-body (BSE) to predict excitonic circular dichroism and chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) from first principles.