
Our Team
Here you will find an overview of our members and their respective research interests.
Head of Chair
Subgroup leaders

Leo leads the subgroup on ultrafast nanophotonics, with a focus on single nanoemitters and photon-phonon energy conversion.
Room: D04.009

Andreas leads the subgroup on mid-infrared nanophotonics for sensing and spectroscopy.
Room: D01.012

Fritz leads the subgroup on biology applications of infrared nanoscopy.
Administrative and technical support

Denise Wedemeyer provides us with administrative and secretarial support.
Room: D03.008

Reinhold Rath supports our clean room and general lab facilities, and is also in charge of safety.
Room: D03.010

Namvar Jahanmehr supports nanofabrication process development and our chemical lab.
Room: D03.010
Postdocs

Angana develops metasurfaces applicable in neuromorphic imaging and studies their tunability for mid infra-red applications.
Room: D04.010

Alexander's research is related to the study of the optical properties of hybrid metasurfaces.
Room: D01.013

Wenzheng is working on active modulation of photonic metasurfaces and their applications in optical devices.
Room: D04.010

Anil researches surface-enhanced Raman scattering biosensors for the early diagnosis of blood cancer.
Room: D04.010

Luca studies the integration of excitonic 2D semiconductors with plasmonic and dielectric hybrid nano-photonic structures.
Room: D04.009
PhD students


Enrico studies semiconductor integrated photonic circuits and in-liquid biosensing using near-field optical microscopy.
Room: D01.014

Luca investigates the nanophotonic electrochemical platform for SEIRA in the context of clean hydrogen generation.
Room: D03.013

Jonas investigates the integration of 2D materials and their heterostructures with dielectric nanocavities.
Room: D01.013

Johannes investigates photonic light cages for surface enhanced spectroscopies.
Room: D03.013

Jiaqi investigates light propagation in alternative nonreciprocal media, with a focus on Förster resonance energy transfer.
Room: D04.016

Thorsten is developing methods for performing biospectroscopy on living cells with sSNOM.
Room: D01.014

Dmytro studies chiral metasurfaces, as well as metasurfaces for structural light applications.
Room: D03.015

Haiyang researches TiO2-based all-dielectric metasurfaces for energy conversion and molecular detection
Room: D01.013

Tao's research focuses on the application of metasurface-enhanced spectroscopy.
Room: D03.013

Chenhao obtained an LMU-CSC Scholarship to study phase-change nanophotonics.
Room: D03.013

Thomas is working on single photon emitters in 2D materials integrated in nanophotonic structures.
Room: D03.05

Thomas studies metasurfaces for biospectroscopy in the mid-infrared.
Room: D01.013

Xingye is working on tunable and waveguide coupled BIC based metamaterials.
Room: D03.05
MSc students

Connor investigates new mechanisms in light-matter interaction in metasurfaces driven by bound states in the continuum.
Room: D01.014

Michael develops novel concepts for metasurfaces based on photonic bound states in the continuum.
Room: D01.014

Lina is working on biosensing in biomimetic membrane systems with BIC metasurfaces.
Room: D03.05

Levin is working on second harmonic generation with controllable polarization in layered transition metal dichalcogenides.
Room: D04.16

Yunshan develops a highly sensitive technique to measure nonlinear refraction and nonlinear absorption of monolayers.
Room: D04.16
Visiting researchers

Andres is a professor at the University of Alicante (Spain), on a sabatical working on wavefront engineering with metasurfaces.
Room: D03.011

Felipe is a professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro investigating nonreciprocal light and chirality in our chair.
Room: D04.009