Former Group Members
| Name | Title | Work |
|---|---|---|
| David Dams | Dr. | PhD student: Light-Matter Interactions in 2D Nanostructures and Chiral Cavities |
| Maria Paszkiewicz | Dr. | PhD student: Light propagation in free-form dielectric waveguides: a modal perspective |
| Thomas Behrus Abkai | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Optimization of the color perception of a metasurface through rational approximation |
| Annika Brandt | M.Sc. | Master student: Probing strong coupling in core-shell nanoparticles with fast electron beams |
| Pius Brauchte | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Inverse design of optical elements for holography |
| Serhiy Chaykovskyy | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Light-Matter Interactions in 2D Nanostructures and Chiral Cavities |
| Jona Käss | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Evaluating the Use of Generative Machine Learning Models for Structural Integrity in Photonic Inverse Design |
| Jasper Moritz | M.Sc. | Master student: Digital Twin for Silicon Solar Cell |
| Juan Diego Mazo Vasquez | M.Sc. | Master student: Emission spectrum of nanostructures from the analysis of singular modes of the absorption matrix |
| Paula Himmelsbach | M.Sc. | Master student: Field-dependent behavior of light-matter interactions in the context of molecular systems |
| Mitchell Whittam | Dr. | PhD student: Electromagnetic scattering by objects moving at relativistic speeds |
| Christof Holzer | Dr. | PostDoc: Multi-scale modeling of molecular photonic devices |
| Michael Daam | PhD student | |
| Nima Rafsanjani | M.Sc. | Master student: Tailoring the spectral flow of light using the inverse design of spatiotemporal metasurfaces |
| Yannick Augenstein | Dr. | PhD student: Inverse design of free form nanophontonic devices |
| Maxim Vavilin | Dr. | PhD student: Polychromatic T-Matrix: Group - Theoretical Derivation and Applications |
| Benedikt Zerulla | Dr. | PhD student: Photonic Devices Made from Molecular Materials: A Multi-Scale Modeling Approach |
| Timo Alexander Zieminski | BSc. | Bachelor student: Ensuring connectivity in nanophonic device design through deep-learning generative models |
| Leander Zimmer | BSc. | Bachelor student: Light scattering by spheres made of time-varying materials |
| Xuchen Wang | Dr. | PostDoc: Light propagation in photonic time crystals |
| Dominik Beutel | Dr. | PhD student: A holistic framework for electromagnetic scattering simulations based on the T-matrix method |
| Prerak Dhawan | Dr. | PhD student: Light trapping using correlated disordered media for planarized solar cells |
| Aristeidis Lamprianidis | Dr. | PhD student: Generalized transition matrix methods for the analysis of linear nanophotonic systems |
| Nanda Perdana | Dr. | PhD student: Broadband Thin Film Absorber Based on Plasmonic Nanoparticles |
| Lukas Freter | M.Sc. | Master student: Light Matter Interaction in Tensor Product Spaces |
| Alejandro Luna Díaz | M.Sc | Master student: Second Harmonic Generation simulations in molecular crystalline materials |
| Pascal Scherer | M.Sc. | Master student: Towards the inverse design of T-matrices using the finite-difference time-domain method |
| Christoph Wilhelm | M.Sc. | Master student: Far Fields from Different Dipolar Emissions near a MoS2 monolayer |
Ramakrishna Venkitakrishnan | Dr. | PhD student: On the Physical Significance of Strong Spatial Dispersion |
| Lina Kuhn | M.Sc. | Master student: Inverse Design of Spherical Scatterers Using Artificial Neural Networks |
| Florian Reuter | M.Sc. | Master student: Transformations of the T-matrix under the Poincaré group |
| Marvin Müller | Dr. | PhD student: Electronic and photonic excitations in graphene nanostructures and hybrid systems |
| Aso Rahimzadegan | Dr. | PhD student: Multipolar Analysis of Ordered and Disordered Metasurfaces |
| Lukas Materne | M.Sc | Master student: Development and Application of Computational Methods for the Simulation of Vibrational Optical Properties of Molecular Systems |
| Linus Schulte | B.Sc | Bachelor student: The Collective Coordinate Method to simplify simulations of hyperuniform nanodisk interfaces |
| Rasoul Alaee | Dr. | PostDoc: Light scattering in complex systems and using structured light |
| Theodosios Karamanos | Dr. | PostDoc: Analytical theory of metasurfaces and light propagation in disordered photonic materials |
| Xavier Garcia-Santiago | Dr. | PostDoc: Development and application of tools for the inverse design of photonic nanostructures |
| Luisa Arango | B.Sc | Bachelor student: Inference of electromagnetic fields in the time domain using neural networks |
| Evgeniia Slivina | Dr. | PhD student: Anti-Reflective Dielectric Nanostructures for Solar Cells Analyzed from Helicity Preservation Perspective |
| Patrick Golz | M.Sc | Master student: Algorithm for the efficient structural and parameter optimization of postselection-based quantum optical circuits |
| Elias Kunzweiler | B.Sc | Bachelor student: Homogenization of Chiral Metamaterials |
| Aso Rahimzadegan | Dr. | PhD student: Multipolar Analysis of Ordered and Disordered Metasurfaces |
| Taavi Repän | Dr. | PostDoc: Development and application of neural networks to nanooptical problems |
| Martin Mäck | M.Sc. | Master student: Quantification Of Symmetry Breaking In Arrays |
| Juan Ramón Deop Ruano | M.Sc. | Master student: Modifying the optical properties of molecules with strong electric fields |
| Benedikt Zerulla | M.Sc. | Master student: Enhancement of chiral response with polymer-based periodic photonic structures |
| Qin Su | M.Sc. | Master student: Optimization of quantum optical circuits for state preparation by hybrid machine learning methods |
| Jens Oppermann | M.Sc. | Master student: Quantum Many-Body Phenomena in Optical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators |
| Xavier García Santiago | Dr. | PhD student: Numerical Methods for Shape Optimization of Photonic Nanostructures |
| Joshua McCauley | M.Sc. | Master student: Interaction Between Graphene Nanoflakes and Adatoms |
| Changhyoup Lee | Dr. | PostDoc: Quantum optics in nanostructured systems with emphasis on quantum metrology |
| Maria Paszkiewicz | M.Sc. | Master student: Calculation of losses in freeform waveguides |
| Oliver Kuster | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: A machine learning based optimiser for nanophotonic inverse design |
| Katharina Goth | M.Sc. | Master student: Reducing reflection losses in perovskite silicon tandem solar cells by introducing nanophotonic front contacts |
| Timon Höß | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Nonlocal effects in particle arrays with multipolar resonances |
| Pascal Scherer | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Topology optimization of optical cavities using neural networks |
| Niels Gieseler | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Optical Force and Torque on Self-Stabilizing Curved Metasurfaces |
| Kai Pieper | Dr. | PhD student: Ways to understand the concept of coherence using suitable experiments |
| Karim Mnasri | Dr. | PhD student: Modeling Optical Metamaterials with Strong Spatial Dispersion |
| Andreas Vetter | Dr. | PhD student: Resolution enhancement in mask aligner photolithography |
| Christina Ioannou | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Improving the precision of transmission circular dichroism measurement with quantum resources |
| Radius Nagassa Setyo Suryadharma | Dr. | PhD student: T-matrix Method for the Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering |
| Fernando Negredo | PhD student: Photonic wirebonding | |
| Mirko Göddel | M.Sc. | Master student: Design of optical hybrid nanoantennas for dispersion mediated photon-photon coupling |
| Stefan Nanz | Dr. | PhD student: Tailored Light Scattering and Emission in Solar Cells and LEDs Using Ordered and Disordered Interfaces |
| Joel Macht | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Discussion of the energy-momentum tensor in anisotropic media |
| David Dams | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Investigating the impact of Ohmic loss on the optical response of dielectric metasurfaces |
| Pablo Schmid | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Quantum state engineering by multiphoton catalysis with Gaussian states |
| Patrizia Stehle | M.Sc. | Master student: Electromagnetic chirality of an isotropic, chiral, spherical scatterer depending on its material properties and geometry |
| Youngsun Yun | M.Sc. | Master student: Single-photon spectrometer with superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors implemented in cascaded photonic crystal nanocavities |
| Aimi Abass | Dr. | PostDoc: Light in nanostructured materials |
| Achim Groner | M.Sc. | Master student: Analyzing diffraction from periodically arranged scatterers while considering their T-Matrix |
| Jakob Straubel | Dr. | PhD student: Light-Matter Interaction in Hybrid Quantum Plasmonic Systems |
| Surya Revanth Ayyagari | Research Internship: Training of Deep Neural Networks | |
| Florian Graf | M.Sc. | Master student: Electromagnetically Dual Nanostructures for Enhanced Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy |
| Joshua Feis | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Surface Plasmon Polaritons Sustained at the Interface of Nonlocal Metamaterials |
| Julian Münzberg | M.Sc. | Master student: Superconducting nanowire single photon detector implemented with a 2D photonic crystal cavity |
| Muluneh Geremew | M.Sc. | Master student: Thermodynamics of photon management in solar cells |
| Jens Küchenmeister | Dr. | Assistance in education of teachers |
| David Schmidt | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Numerical analysis of light scattering of spheres above substrates |
| Kevin Müller | M.Sc. | Visiting PhD student: Modal theories for the description of metasurfaces |
| Janine von Hodenberg | Dipl.-Phys. | Diploma student: Actuation and interaction of bianisotropic particles with light |
| Andreas Schiemenz | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: The Abraham-Minkowski controversy: On the requirements of the energy-momentum tensor and momentum in dielectric matter |
| Martin Fruhnert | Dr. | PhD student: Optics in Self-Assembled Metamaterials |
| Steffen Alexander Schmid | M.Sc. | Master student: Plasmonic Nanoparticles Coupled to Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators for Sensing Applications |
| Ismail A. Rahman | M.Sc. | Master student: Backscattering suppression beyond Kerker condition of duality |
| Mona Gärtner | State examination thesis: Development of an online learning portal for pupils | |
| Mirko Göddel | B.Sc. | Bachelor student: Manipulation of molecular higher order transitions using dielectric nanoantennas |
| Rasoul Alaee | Dr. | PhD student: Optical Nanoantennas and Their Use as Perfect Absorbers |
| Hui-Hsin Hsiao | Dr. | Visiting PostDoc: Simulation of nonlinear nanoplasmonic devices |
| Evgenia Rusak | M.Sc. | Master student: Description of hybrid optical nanosystems: Quantum emitters coupled to optical nanoantennas |
| Giuseppe Toscano | Dr. | PostDoc: Hydrodynamic description of plasmonic nanostructures |
| Karolina Slowik | Dr. | PostDoc: Hybrid quantum-photonic nanosystems |
| Alexander Kwiatkowski | M.Sc. | Master student: Optical Properties of Surface Plasmons at the Nano-Scale |