
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.
Professors

Nanoinstitute Munich
Professor for Experimental Physics - Functional Nanophotonics
Administrative and technical support

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.
Postdocs

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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


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

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