Superconducting spintronics (and spin caloritronics) is an emergent field at the intersection of spin(-orbit) physics and superconductivity, traditionally studied in metals. Van der Waals materials, which can be exfoliated down to the monolayer limit, and cover the whole gamut of electronic properties, open new possibilities for the study of superconducting devices and unconventional superconductivity. Our collaboration has shown that semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are excellent tunnel barriers, which we have used, inter alia, to obtain spectral evidence for a possible equal-spin triplet superconducting (ESTS) state in the TMD NbSe2. Recently, magnetism has been demonstrated in in few-layer 2D materials (CrSBr, VX2…). Such magnetic properties were used for efficient spin-filtering in devices with magnetic insulators such as CrI3. We offer 2 possible projects related to the interplay of spins and superconductivity (see pdf). Candidates should have a strong background in quantum mechanics and condensed matter physics, and solid laboratory experience. Familiarity with nano-fabrication, vdW materials and low-noise low-temperature electronic transport would be a plus. This co-supervised project is part of a long-standing collaboration between the Université Paris-Saclay (Charis Quay et al.) and the Hebrew University (Hadar Steinberg et al.).