News

Tim Suter succesfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Broadband terahertz time-domain spectroscopy for high-pressure material studies". Congratulations Tim! 

Tim will be continuing in our group for some months to complete his project. 

Max Geniets and Luca Titze completed their QMD group semester projects on "Phonon-Polariton Nonlinearities in Ferroelectric LiNbO3" and "Static Terahertz Time-Domain-Spectroscopy on Silicone Oil Under Pressure," respectively. Sascha Frei also completed his QMD-affiliated semester project on "Development and Characterization of an Optical Pump-Probe Setup Studying Femtosecond Laser Processing" at the Paul Scherrer Institute, co-supervised by Dr. Larissa Boie.

Zekai Chen has succesfully defended his masters thesis titled 'Terehertz time-domain spectroscpy in a diamond anvil cell'. He has since recieved an offer to begin his PhD in the laboratory of multiferroic materials at ETHZ. We wish him all the best!  

Elsa Abreu was selected as a member of the Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck Society, which "foster the careers of excellent female scientists after their postdoc phase". Congratulations!

Zia will continue to work with Tim and Elsa in investigating the dynamics of different quantum materials under high-pressure and low-temperature conditions using time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy.

The conference focused on Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems close to Lucca (Italy). Tim and Rosella presented posters on their respective research. Prof. Dr. Abreu gave an invited talk.

Congratulations to Janine Zemp-​Dössegger for successfully defending her Doctoral thesis on "Terahertz response and dynamics in the spin-​ladder compound Sr_14−𝑥Ca_𝑥Cu₂₄O₄₁". Janine will remain with the group in the upcoming months to finalize her research.