With great pleasure we announce that Dr. Immo Söllner, postdoctoral researcher in the Nano-Photonics Group, has been awarded a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for the project “Emitter-mediated Photon-Phonon InteraCtion (EPPIC)”. The project will focus on engineering the interaction of single seminconductor quantum dots with the phononic environment. Immo will work closely with PhDs and postdoctoral researchers at the University of Basel to carry out this project and will profit greatly from a close collaboration with European partners in Germany and Denmark. We thank the European Union for the generous support and hope that our work will help exploit the potential of quantum science!