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Our Team
Here you will find an overview of our members and their respective research interests.
Head of Chair
N.N.
Subgroup leaders
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Leo leads the subgroup on ultrafast nanophotonics, with a focus on single nanoemitters and photon-phonon energy conversion.
Room: D03.010
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Andreas leads the subgroup on mid-infrared nanophotonics for sensing and spectroscopy.
Room: D01.012
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Fritz leads the subgroup on biology applications of infrared nanoscopy.
Administrative and technical support
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Denise Wedemeyer provides us with administrative and secretarial support.
Room: D03.008
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Reinhold Rath supports our clean room and general lab facilities, and is also in charge of safety.
Room: D03.010
Postdocs
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Alexander studies the interaction of light with optical metasurfaces within theoretical and semi-analytical approaches.
Room: D03.013
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Alexander's research is related to the study of the optical properties of hybrid metasurfaces.
Room: D01.013
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Angana develops metasurfaces applicable in neuromorphic imaging and studies their tunability for mid infra-red applications.
Room: D03.013
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Yohan is working on active metasurfaces and their applications.
Room: D03.015
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Wenzheng is working on active modulation of photonic metasurfaces and their applications in optical devices.
Room: D03.015
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Abhinav deals with the efficient generation and detection of surface acoustic waves.
Room: D03.015
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Luca studies the integration of excitonic 2D semiconductors with plasmonic and dielectric hybrid nano-photonic structures.
Room: D03.013
PhD students
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Enrico studies semiconductor integrated photonic circuits and in-liquid biosensing using near-field optical microscopy.
Room: D01.014
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Jonas investigates the integration of 2D materials and their heterostructures with dielectric nanocavities.
Room: D01.013
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Jiaqi investigates light propagation in alternative nonreciprocal media, with a focus on Förster resonance energy transfer.
Room: D03.015
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Thorsten is developing methods for performing biospectroscopy on living cells with sSNOM.
Room: D01.014
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Dmytro studies chiral metasurfaces, as well as metasurfaces for structural light applications.
Room: D03.015
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Connor investigates new mechanisms in light-matter interaction in metasurfaces driven by bound states in the continuum.
Room: D01.014
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Michael develops novel concepts for metasurfaces based on photonic bound states in the continuum.
Room: D01.014
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Haiyang researches TiO2-based all-dielectric metasurfaces for energy conversion and molecular detection
Room: D01.013
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Tao's research focuses on the application of metasurface-enhanced spectroscopy.
Room: D03.013
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Chenhao obtained an LMU-CSC Scholarship to study phase-change nanophotonics.
Room: D03.013
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Thomas is working on single photon emitters in 2D materials integrated in nanophotonic structures.
Room: D03.015
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Thomas studies metasurfaces for biospectroscopy in the mid-infrared.
Room: D01.013
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Xingye is working on tunable and waveguide coupled BIC based metamaterials.
Room: D03.013
MSc students
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Lina is working on biosensing in biomimetic membrane systems with BIC metasurfaces.
Room: D03.015
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Levin is working on second harmonic generation with controllable polarization in layered transition metal dichalcogenides.
Room: D03.015
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Yunshan develops a highly sensitive technique to measure nonlinear refraction and nonlinear absorption of monolayers.
Room: D03.005
Visiting researchers
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Andres is a professor at the University of Alicante (Spain), on a sabatical working on wavefront engineering with metasurfaces.
Room: D03.011
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Cristina is a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano, investigating ultrafast interactions of excitons and optical metasurfaces.
Room: D04.009
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Igor is a Ph.D. student at UFPE in Recife working on DNA origami-based optically and electrically excited random lasers.
Room: D03.005
External lab users
Alumni
Professors
Prof. Dr. Stefan Maier
Postdocs
Dr. Changxu Liu
Dr. Yi Li
Dr. Rodrigo Berté
Dr. Haoran Ren
Dr. Ibrahim Abdelwahab
Dr. Fedja Wendisch
Dr. Anil Kumar Pal
Dr. Lin Nan
PhD Students
Dr. Ludwig Hüttenhofer
Dr. Lucca Kühner
Allison Pessoa
Dr. Andrea Mancini
Dr. Benjamin Tilmann
Dr. Luca Berger
Dr. Johannes Bürger
MSc Students
Johannes Lechner
Linda Hädrich
Daniele De Gregorio
Rebecca Büchner
Laura Kern
Simon Bongarz
Ermanno Sava
Theresa Kammerbauer
Julius Kühne
Paul Butler
Martin Barkey
Max Beddoe
Merve Gülmüs
Alwin Wester
David Simml
Luis Morguet
Markus Stein
Visiting Researchers
Prof. Dr. Felipe Pinheiro
Magdaléna Robešová
Technical and Administrative Staff
Martina Edenhofer
Namvar Jahanmehr