22.10.2025 Newsletter Physics October 2025

Physics Department Newsletter 10/2025

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In this edition:

Department News

  • Prof. Reinhard Noack appointed as new Dean, succeeding Prof. Florian Gebhard after his successful 3-year term.
  • Welcome to Prof. Nadine Leisgang (experimental quantum materials) as new faculty member, supported by DFG and LOEWE grants.
  • Mandatory electronic time recording launched for administrative/technical staff (voluntary for others).

Research Highlights

  • AG Reutzel: Proof of Floquet states in graphene (Nature Physics, Cover).
  • AG Malic:Electrically tunable interlayer exciton-cavity coupling (Nature Nanotechnology).
  • Enhanced exciton transport in moiré potentials (Nature Communications).
  • Unidirectional exciton dynamics in lateral heterostructures (Nano Letters).
  • Strong-coupling polaritons in 2D perovskites (Advanced Optical Materials).

Events & Outreach

  • "Kinderuni": 50 pupils explored "Air and Light" through interactive experiments.
  • Excursion to Germany’s largest iron foundry (Fritz Winter) for the course Sustainability of Materials.
  • "More for physics students": Climbing park trip to foster community among female students.

Upcoming:

DESY Hamburg excursion (4–6 Dec 2025).

New Colleagues

  • Janik Pawlowski (PhD, AG Bremmer; computational neuroscience).
  • Ole Breuer (IT support, HRZ/Physics Department).
  • Christina Rust (Secretary, AG Goldschmidt).

Awards & Projects

  • LOEWE Exploration grants for AGs Reutzel/Witte (hybrid semiconductors) and Malic/Urbaszek (exciton devices).
  • Alexander Kreß (AG Bremmer) completed his PhD on adaptive stimulus optimization in primate vision.
  • Carlos Maciel (Humboldt Fellow) joins AG Malic to study phonoritons in 2D materials.

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