Next to Van Heumen, also Dr. Anne de Visser from the UvA-Institute of Physics is involved in the consortium that consists of 9 other researchers from in total 6 Dutch Universities. The consortium aims to kickstart a new field of research, with the goal to develop novel materials that change their electrical or magnetic properties strongly under small perturbations such as pressure, temperature or applied electric field. To achieve this goal, the TOPCORE program combines groundbreaking ideas from the mathematical field of topology with experiments and theoretical investigations of recently discovered materials.