Prof. Gierz
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Prof. Dr. Isabella Gierz (head of the group)
Office: WNA3.0.009 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7501 Email: isabella.gierz-at-ur.de
CV
Previous and current positions
| since 04/2019 | W2 professor at the Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics at the University of Regensburg |
| 2013-2019 | Leader of an independent research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany www.mpsd.mpg.de/5841/ued-gierz |
| 2011-2013 | Postdoc in the Condensed Matter Dynamics Department of Prof. Andrea Cavalleri at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany |
Education
| 2007-2013 | PhD student in the department for nanostructure physics of Prof. Klaus Kern at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Gemany |
| 2006-2007 | Diploma student in the department of Prof. Eberhard Umbach at the University of Würzburg, Germany |
| 2001-2007 | Studies of Physics at the University of Würzburg, Germany, and the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France |
Stipends and Awards
| 2002-2007 | Stipend of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes | |
| 2011 | Otto Hahn Medal and Otto Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society for the discovery of a giant spin splitting on semiconducting surfaces | |
| 2019 | ERC Starting Grant |
Technician
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Thomas Seitz (Technician) Office: WNA3.0.010 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7502 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: thomas.seitz-at-ur.de
PhD students
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Maria-Elisabeth Federl
Office: WNA3.0.013 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7504 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: maria-elisabeth.federl-at-ur.de
Maria uses confinement heteroepitaxy to make new heterostructures that consist of monolayer graphene and 2D Sn. She characterizes these samples with ARPES, XPS, and LEED and compares the measured electronic structure with DFT calculations looking for indications of hybridization between the layers. She investigates these heterostructures with tr-ARPES looking for ultrafast charge transfer and other proximity-induced non-equilibrium effects.
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Johannes Gradl
Office: WNA3.0.013 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7504 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: johannes.gradl-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Johannes investigates the microscopic scattering channels that are responsible for ultrafast charge transfer in WS2/graphene heterostructures. He focuses on the role of defects and the twist angle between the layers.
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Michael Herb
Office: WNA3.0.013 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7504 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: michael.herb-at-ur.de
Mischa is growing KxC60 films on different substrates for future tr-ARPES experiments on light-induced superconductivity.
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Niklas Hofmann
Office: WNA3.0.011 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7503 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: niklas.hofmann-at-ur.de
Niklas is bulding a tr-ARPES setup with narrow-band THz pump pulses to investigate the electronic structure of different transition metal dichalcogenides driven at resonance to the infrared-active in-plane phonon.
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Leonard Weigl
Office: WNA3.0.011 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7503 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: leonard.weigl-at-ur.de
Leo is using tr-ARPES to demonstrate dynamical stabilization of non-equilibrium band structures with the goal to realize, e.g., Floquet topological insulators.
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Isabella Hofmeister
Office: WNA3.0.010 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7502 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: isabella-alexandra.hofmeister-at-ur.de
Isabella studies ultrafast electron dynamics in crystalline nanomaterials with a focus on KxC60 and aims to do further experiments on light-induced superconductivity in K3C60.
Master students
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Franziska Bergmeier
Office: WNA3.0.010 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7502 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: franziska.bergmeier-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
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Stefan Miedaner
Office: PHY7.3.02 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 2142 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: stefan.miedaner-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Bach. students
Marco Wittmann Office: PHY 7.3.01 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7401 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: marco1.wittmann-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Marco is using tr-ARPES to investigate the ultrafast charge separation in WS2/graphene heterostructures.
Oliver Würfl Office: PHY 7.3.01 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7401 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: oliver.wuerfl-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Oliver is optimizing the growth of KxC60 thin films on graphene substrates using ARPES and LEED experiments.
