Several visitors and friends from Australia came to our institute this summer: Prof. Mike Steel from Macquarie University and A/Prof. Christian Wolff from Horizon Microtechnologies GmbH visited us in August 2024 and soon after Prof. Irina Kabakova from the Technical University of Sydney and Prof.…

Another prize was awarded to Dr. Alexandra Popp: she received the 2024 SAOT - Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies Student award for her paper “Extreme thermodynamics in nanolitre volumes through stimulated Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering” published in Nature Physics.…

Andreas defended his doctoral thesis with the topic “Thermodynamics for Advancing and Controlling Brillouin Scattering” today! Many congratulations from the whole group! We also revived an old institute’s tradition and pushed the new doctor through all corridors with applause!

Very well deserved…

At the novel format "Networking Symposium" selected Group Leaders presented their research in 3-Minutes Pitches to the audience. Birgit Stiller presented our work on "Sound and Light waves to advance optical neural networks and to propel quantum technologies".

The research groups Del’Haye, Fattahi and Stiller gathered again for our legendary journal club Berg session! Many good memories!

Dr. Varun Marathan Kovil has joined our group as a postdoc from the Phonon Lab at IISER. With his valuable expertise, he will work on several of our current projects. Welcome to the group Varun!