Meet the group

Reinhold Rath supports our clean room and general lab facilities, and is also in charge of safety.

Denise Wedemeyer provides us with administrative and secretarial support.

Alexander studies the interaction of light with optical metasurfaces within theoretical and semi-analytical approaches.

Alexander's research is related to the study of the optical properties of hybrid metasurfaces.

Yohan is working on active metasurfaces and their applications.

Luca studies the integration of excitonic 2D semiconductors with plasmonic and dielectric hybrid nano-photonic structures.

Ruosong studies hybrid metasurfaces and their photonic applications.

Martin integrates metasurfaces with AI to advance biospectroscopy, particularly for applications in aqueous environments.

Enrico studies semiconductor integrated photonic circuits and in-liquid biosensing using near-field optical microscopy.

Jonas investigates the integration of 2D materials and their heterostructures with dielectric nanocavities.

Veysel is an external PhD student working on Metasurfaces for Spatial Light Modulator applications using Liquid Crystal.

Connor investigates new mechanisms in light-matter interaction in metasurfaces driven by bound states in the continuum.

Michael develops novel concepts for metasurfaces based on photonic bound states in the continuum.

Tao's research focuses on the application of metasurface-enhanced spectroscopy.

Lina is working on biosensing in biomimetic membrane systems with BIC metasurfaces.

Yuan is working on non-reciprocal metasurfaces.

Thomas studies metasurfaces for biospectroscopy in the mid-infrared.

Xingye is working on tunable and waveguide coupled BIC based metamaterials.

Kevin works on s-snom in aqueous environments using thin membranes, focusing on its biological and polaritonic applications

Vitus studies chiral metasurfaces made from hexagonal Boron nitride.

Apoorv works on integrating 2D heterostructures with dielectric metasurfaces to tailor and enhance light–matter interactions.