Meet the group

We are a multi-national team passionate about scientific discovery and open collaboration.

Interested in joining our group?

We are always looking for motivated and scientifically curious people to join our team at all levels.

-> Open positions

Professors

Prof. Dr. Andreas Tittl

Nanoinstitute Munich

Professor for Experimental Physics - Functional Nanophotonics

Administrative and technical support

From Chair in Hybrid Nanosystems

Reinhold Rath

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

Denise Wedemeyer

Denise Wedemeyer provides us with administrative and secretarial support.

Postdocs

Dr. Alexander Antonov

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

Dr. Alexander Berestennikov

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

Dr. Angana Bhattacharya

Angana develops metasurfaces applicable in neuromorphic imaging and studies their tunability for mid infra-red applications.

Dr. Yohan Lee

Yohan is working on active metasurfaces and their applications.

Dr. Luca Sortino

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

PhD Students

Andreas Aigner

Andreas researches applications of optical metasurfaces.

Enrico Baù

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

Jonas Biechteler

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

Thorsten Gölz

Thorsten is developing methods for performing biospectroscopy on living cells with sSNOM.

Connor Heimig

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

Michael Hirler

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

Haiyang Hu

Haiyang researches TiO2-based all-dielectric metasurfaces for energy conversion and molecular detection

Tao Jiang

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

Thomas Weber

Thomas studies metasurfaces for biospectroscopy in the mid-infrared.

Xingye Yang

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

Master students

Lina Rohrer

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