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05.05.2025
New POLIMA PhD student
Daniel Miranda from University of Minho started 15 April 2025 at POLIMA
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07.03.2025
The Gian Paolo Brivio International Prize
POLIMA affiliate P. Elli Stamatopoulou receives the prize in 2025
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06.03.2025
Eduardo wants to solve nanotechnology’s heat problem
As microchips in smartphones, computers, and other electronic devices become more powerful and compact, a significant issue arises: how to get rid of the heat? Eduardo Dias from POLIMA has received a prestigious EU fellowship to find a solution.
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26.02.2025
Publication in Physical Review B highlighted as Editor's Suggestion
Recent paper "Tunable exciton polaritons in biased bilayer graphene" supervised by POLIMA visitor André Chaves, with the participation of Pedro Ninhos, Christos Tserkezis, N. Asger Mortensen and Nuno Peres, was chosen as one of the best contributions to the February issue of Physical Review B.
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06.02.2025
Mikkel Have Eriksen's PhD defence
Title of thesis: Quantum Nonlinear Nano-optics in Hybrid Polaritonic Systems
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24.01.2025
Young physicist receives prestigious grant and returns to SDU
How do light and matter behave at the nanoscale? This is one of the key questions physicist P. André D. Gonçalves will investigate as he returns to the Faculty of Engineering at SDU, supported by a Villum Young Investigator grant of 9 million DKK.
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23.01.2025
Nonlinear Thermoplasmonics in Graphene Nanostructures
New paper published in Nano Letters reveals that near-infrared plasmons can be thermally activated in narrow graphene nanoribbons by using optical pulses, without resorting to extreme electrical doping schemes, and can drive nonlinear optical effects for advanced photonic applications.
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22.01.2025
New experimental Assistant Professor
Nicolas Ubrig will join POLIMA - Centre for Polariton-driven light-matter Interactions from 1st February
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22.01.2025
New Assistant Professor in Theoretical and Computational Physics
POLIMA is very happy to announce that P. André D. Gonçalves (André) will be joining our team as an Assistant Professor starting February 1st.
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05.11.2024
P. Elli Stamatopoulou receives prestigious grant from the Villum Foundation
Villum Foundation awards over 16 million DKK to seven excellent female researchers in technical and natural sciences. One of them is P. Elli Stamatopoulou.
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28.10.2024
From POLIMA to Madrid: The impact of collaborations across frontiers
PhD student Pedro Ninhos has spent 6 months abroad: An exciting research and life experience in Madrid.
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11.10.2024
Sergii Morozov at FM&NT NIBS 2024 Conference in Tartu Estonia
M&NT-NIBS 2024 brought together experts from around the world to discuss cutting-edge research in functional materials, nanotechnology, and innovative approaches to sustainable energy, bioengineering, and biotechnology.
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24.09.2024
PEPS 2024
Discussing Physics of Excitons and Polaritons in Iceland
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16.09.2024
Nordita Workshop
“Coherent Control with Modified Vacuum Fields” in August 2024
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11.09.2024
POLIMA retreat
Kickstart of the autumn semester 2024
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06.09.2024
N. Asger Mortensen plenary speaker at CMD31
N. Asger Mortensen opened Day 4 of CMD31 with the talk 'Mesoscopic electrodynamics, nonlocal response, and quantum corrections in surface-polariton systems'
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05.09.2024
Visiting PhD Student from KAIST
Minsoo Jang will spend 6 months at POLIMA
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31.08.2024
Publication in Science Advances
A breakthrough in gate-controlled nanometer-sized light antennas paves the way for electrically driven plasmonic modulators and metasurfaces, utilizing control over nonclassical surface effects.
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28.08.2024
POLIMA Visiting Professor - Joel Yang from Singapore University of Technology and Design
Time to discuss polariton research and develop new ideas
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02.07.2024
From Bachelor thesis to publication
What drives two students to spend their summer break on writing a paper? And do they have any good advice to other students who consider writing a paper?
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10.06.2024
Polariton Science Conference 4-7 June
80 researchers joined the conference in Odense to present results within the research field of polariton-driven nanoscale light-matter interactions
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03.06.2024
OWTNM Workshop 2024
POLIMA PhD students visit the OWTNM Workshop 2024 in Kiel and receive poster award
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06.05.2024
Computational electromagnetics meet quantum mechanics
Christos Mystilidis has spent three months at POLIMA to exploit synergies and get a deeper understanding of physics
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22.04.2024
What is a PhD hat?
The German PhD hat has become a POLIMA tradition
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17.04.2024
SPIE Photonics Europe conference 2024
Two POLIMA PhD students, Pedro Ninhos and Nikolaos Kyvelos, attended the conference in Strasbourg and presented their research.
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05.04.2024
Kristín Björg Arnardóttir new postdoc in POLIMA
Welcome to Kristín Björg Arnardóttir who joins us as a postdoc at POLIMA as an expert in quantum methods for modelling exciton-polaritons.
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04.04.2024
From physics to finance – quantum physicists are in demand in the financial sector
Theis Pilegaard Rasmussen has just defended his Ph.D. in quantum physics, but will not continue his academic career. Instead, he has taken a job at Danske Bank. But why are physicists attractive to the financial sector, and what can they contribute?
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25.03.2024
Publication in npj 2D Materials and Applications
Significant breakthrough in the field of valleytronics by demonstrating strong room-temperature valley polarization in tungsten diselenide (WSe2) and molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) monolayers through electrochemical doping.
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06.03.2024
Complete analytical description of the interaction of spherical nanoparticles with swift electron beams
New paper published in Physical Review Research by Dr. P. Elli Stamatopoulou
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04.03.2024
Danish Optical Society’s National Optics Congress 2024
Several researchers from POLIMA joined the Danish Optical Society’s National Optics Congress 2024, held at University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense
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01.02.2024
POLIMA PhD defense
1 February, Theis Pilegaard Rasmussen successfully defended his PhD thesis.
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30.01.2024
POLIMA strengthens its participation in SOLEN Elite Center
Welcome to Catarina Ferreira who recently started her post-doc in collaboration with SOLEN Elite Center on Solar Energy Conversion and Storage
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18.01.2024
Sven Ebel receives award
PhD student at POLIMA awarded a best poster presentation at NANOMeta2024
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10.01.2024
POLIMA retreat: Science, snow & board games
The POLIMA team and guests has spent 2 days in Svanninge Bjerge in Southern Funen
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19.12.2023
PhD defense
15 December, P. Elli Stamatopoulou defended her PhD thesis
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07.12.2023
From ICFO to POLIMA
Welcome to Eduardo Dias who started as postdoc in POLIMA 1 November
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01.12.2023
Mikkel Have Eriksen receives award
PhD student at POLIMA awarded best poster presentation at NANOP2023
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20.11.2023
Sven Ebel - new PhD student in POLIMA
PhD with focus on the interaction of electron induced plasmonic excitations with 2D material heterostructures
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17.11.2023
N. Asger Mortensen receives prize
Every year, Fyens Stiftstidende gives prizes to excellent researchers from Funen. Among this year's recipients is N. Asger Mortensen from the Faculty of Engineering.
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16.11.2023
From the University of Kiel to University of Southern Denmark
Yonas Lebsir graduated this summer and 1 September, he started as PhD student at POLIMA
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01.11.2023
Nonlinear Plasmonics in Nanostructured Phosphorene
New paper published by ACS Nano reveal the strong nonlinear optical response associated with localized plasmon resonances in nanostructured and electrically-doped phosphorene—the atomic monolayer of black phosphorous.
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27.10.2023
Tenure track position for POLIMA researcher
1 November, Postdoc Zhengli Han starts in a new position of tenure track assistant professor at Aarhus University
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19.09.2023
Dream team
In the fall, five new researchers join POLIMA.
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11.09.2023
Graduated from SDU - PhD student in Korea
Why do a PhD study in Asia? Read about why Jacob Terndrup Heiden made the decision
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05.09.2023
POLIMA Seminar
Two days on south Funen with physics and sun
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10.08.2023
Fedor Shuklin defended his PhD
Today, Fedor Shuklin defended his PhD degree
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07.08.2023
Summer visit from the Max Born Institute
Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri has spent three weeks at POLIMA during the summer
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05.07.2023
POLIMA summer
Vacation time has started
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03.07.2023
POLIMA Adjunct Professor
Professor Nuno Peres, University of Minho, has been appointed Adjunct Professor
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23.06.2023
New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral grant at POLIMA
Zhengli Han has received a Marie Curie Postdoctoral grant and started 1 June in POLIMA
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12.06.2023
New POLIMA PhD student
In the spring, Nikolaos Kyvelos has started as PhD in POLIMA.
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02.06.2023
POLIMA Opening Seminar
POLIMA international collaborators gave presentations within the topic of nanoptics and polariton physics
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01.06.2023
Opening of POLIMA
1 June, the new Center of Excellence POLIMA - Center for Polariton-driven light-matter Interactions officially opened
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24.05.2023
Christos Tserkezis promoted to Topical Editor
The Journal of the Optical Society of America B unanimously approved Christos's promotion to topical editor on "Theoretical Condensed-Matter Physics"
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10.05.2023
New PhD Student in POLIMA
1 April, Martin Koch Nørgaard started as PhD student in POLIMA
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26.04.2023
Electron-induced nonlinear dynamics in atomic chains
New paper exploring nonlinear light-matter interactions induced by free electrons.
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13.04.2023
Visit by Professor Zhipei Sun
Networking and guest lecture about '2D Materials for Grand Photonic Challenges'
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12.04.2023
Nonlinear graphene plasmonics for quantum logic
New paper proposing a quantum logic gate operating with graphene plasmons published in collaboration with ICFO Barcelona and the University of Vienna.
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01.04.2023
Bachelor students at POLIMA
7 bachelor students this spring
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24.03.2023
Visit from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)
Eduardo Dias joined POLIMA for 3 days
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24.03.2023
Visit from Singapore National University
Three postdocs from the research group of Professor Cheng-Wei QIU at Singapore National University joined POLIMA for a week.
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22.03.2023
Brobdingnagian photon bunching in cathodoluminescence of 2D excitons
New paper published in collaboration with DNRF Center for Nanostructured Graphene and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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01.03.2023
New study published in Nanoscale
Synergetic interactions between different plasmon resonances in graphene heterostructures trigger nonlinear optical phenomena that enable spectral control of light by light on the nanoscale.
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24.02.2023
Christos Tserkezis selected as outstanding Referee
The American Physical Society (APS) has selected 153 Outstanding Referees that have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals
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22.02.2023
Visiting researcher from KU Leuven
Xuezhi Zheng visits POLIMA for three months
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14.02.2023
Research in quantum mechanics is like a journey of discovery into the future
New quantum technologies have the potential to reshape our entire society. At the centre for basic research POLIMA, researchers are particularly curious about interactions between light and matter, as these could potentially form the whole basis of the quantum technologies of the future
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02.02.2023
Photonics West 2023
Two POLIMA PhD students in San Fransisco
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06.01.2023
Appointment of POLIMA tenured Associate Professors
Dr. Joel Cox and Dr. Christos Tserkezis appointed Associate Professors.
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01.12.2022
POLIMA - new Center of Excellence
DNRF has granted 60 million DKK for POLIMA - a new Center of Excellence