Science Co-op
Connor Dalton from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2019 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Alexander Komarek Project Details Overview Over 8 months I worked on the synthesis and characterization of transition metal compounds with potentially interesting physical and magnetic properties. Day to day work consisted of characterizing a synthesized compound with […]
Gaurav Tenkila from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement2019 Placement periodMay – August, September – December Supervisor’s nameSasha Boris Project Details OverviewThe study of high temperature superconductivity is highly motivated by the fact that we have yet to develop a successful theory for its occurrence. Cuprates have some of the highest transition temperatures among high-Tc SCs and […]
Jeremy Wong from Engineering Physics program University of Tokyo
Placement Information Year you started your placement Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Professor Ryo Shimano Project Details Overview Since the discovery of superconductors at the beginning of the 20th century, much work has been done to fully understand their nature. Researchers and engineers dream of room-temperature superconductivity, which will be […]
Kobe Ng from Engineering Physics program University of Tokyo
Placement Information Year you started your placement Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Kosuke Yoshioka Project Details Overview The nobel prize in physics in 2019 was partially awarded for the discovery of exoplanets on a sun-like star. There is substantial interest in exoplanet discovery. However, since exoplanets generate a weak signal, […]
Paul Froese from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2019 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Dirk Manske Project Details Overview In superconductors, spontaneous U(1) symmetry breaking occurs at the transition to the superconducting state, which is reflected by a Mexican hat shaped free energy potential. Collective modes, corresponding to oscillations of the […]
Anita Mahinpei from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement2018 Placement periodMay – August, September – December Supervisor’s nameStefan Kaiser Project Details OverviewThe ultrafast solid state spectroscopy group at Max Planck Institute uses nonlinear optical methods to study dynamics of solid-state materials. One of the methods used by the group is pump-probe spectroscopy. In pump-probe spectroscopy the sample […]
Altstadt, Dresden
from atop the Kreuzkirche church
Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
one of the UNESCO World Heritage
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Hiking at Echigo-Yuzawa, students: Kelton Whiteaker and Paul Liu.
Arnold Leigh Ryan Choa from Physics and Astronomy program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2017 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Liu Hao Tjeng Project Details Overview Topological insulators have a unique property in that they have metallic conducting surface in spite of an insulating bulk. The over-all goal of my project is to cap a thin film […]
Jacobus Philip Haupt from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2017 Placement period May – August Supervisor’s name Christian Ast Project Details Overview My project involves programming an artificial neural network (in MATLAB) to classify spectra from superconductors which have been collected by means of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). If I am successful and in a timely manner, […]
Cinnie Hsiung from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2017 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Sasha Boris Project Details Overview The Solid State Spectroscopy group, directed by Dr. Bernhard Keimer, at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics studies the physics of strongly correlated electron systems using various spectroscopic experimental methods […]
Hirsh Kamakari from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2017 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Dirk Manske Project Details Overview When a superconductor in its ground state interacts with an ultra short laser pulse, quasiparticles are created resulting in a reduction in the magnitude of the order parameter. If the pulse is […]
Jonathan Zhang from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2017 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Andreas Schnyder Project Details Overview I am using the different symmetries found in crystals to predict degenerate energy levels in their band structure. Project objectives To find degeneracies at high symmetry points using methods such as representation […]
Chin Chen from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Philipp Hansmann Project Details Overview I am working in a research group led by Philipp Hansmann in the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Our group looks at the electronic structure of correlated materials using computational […]
Chan Gwak from Physics and Astronomy program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Maurits W. Haverkort Project Details Overview My project is concerned with the use of computational methods to investigate various properties of transition metal compounds. It is characterized by the sequential application of different levels of theory, depending […]
Cameron Herberts from Biophysics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Dr. Ilja Gerhardt Project Details Overview The principle aim of this group is to investigate the properties of single photons and single emitters for their potential use in quantum computation schemes. There are two streams of research […]
Kevin Kwon from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Christian Ast Project Details Overview In the past 3 months, I have been working with MATLAB and Simulink to simulate a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) and Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy (STS). My STM simulation is able to take […]
Alexander Kyriazis from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Robin Wanke Project Details Overview I am a member of the thermoelectronics team at the Max Planck Solid State Research Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. My team focusses on pushing the efficiencies of thermal energy to electrical energy […]
Brandon Reber from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Alexander, Boris Project Details Overview Conventional superconductivity has been used in various technologies over the years, such as maglev trains, MRI machines, and particle accelerators. Although the mechanism of superconductivity in conventional, low-Tc superconductors has been successfully […]
Mohamed Shaaban from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Andreas Schnyder Project Details Overview In recent years topological materials have gained the attention of researchers as a result of exhibiting new physical phenomenon with promising applications (e.g. quantum information technology). One of these phenomena is the […]
Brian Tam from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2016 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Liu Hao Tjeng Project Details Overview The Department of Physics of Correlated Matter at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids investigates how interactions among the electrons in materials with transition and rare earth metals […]
Costa Lambrinoudis from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Dr. Alexander Boris Project Details Overview My project involved measuring the dielectric response of a superconductor called YBCO at various temperatures. Project objectives One of the theory groups here came up with a set of models that […]
Lawrence, Wang from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Robin, Wanke Project Details Overview I worked with the thermoelectronics team, which was involved in developing an efficient thermoelectronic energy conversion set-up. Thermoelectronics is, as the name implies, a highly efficient method of converting heat into electrical […]
Trevor Clarke from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Christian Ast Project Details Overview Calculations of the electronic band structure of a graphene lattice perturbed by a randomly fluctuating but continuous and smooth potential landscape are executed using MATLAB. Potential landscapes are simulated via two techniques: […]
Alex Toews from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Andreas Schnyder Project Details Overview Magnetic impurities in an s-wave superconductor induced Shiba bound-states. A chain of magnetic impurity spins leads to a band of Shiba bound states, whose band structure is similar to an effective p-wave […]
Rachel Zhao from Biophysics program Erlangen – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Vahid Sandoghdar Project Details Overview The Max Planck institute for the science of light (Sandoghdar Division) explores various aspect of light-matter interaction at the nanometer scale. The group concentrate on research involving quantum optics, laser spectroscope, cryogenics, […]
Lisa Wei from Biophysics program Erlangen – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Vahid Sandoghdar Project Details Overview The Sandoghdar Division at the MPL is a dynamic group that focuses upon investigating the light-matter interaction at the nanometer scale by using a combination of techniques from quantum optics, laser spectroscopy, […]
Christina Wong from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Martin Valldor Project Details Overview I am working with the New Materials with Composite Anionic Lattices group under Martin Valldor at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden. Our goal is to synthesize […]
Taylor Wright from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2015 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Martin Valldor Project Details Overview The discovery, synthesis, and study of new inorganic chemical compounds with unique and interesting crystal lattices, primarily transition metal compounds having two or more anions. Newly discovered compounds are characterized using single […]
Brandon Stuart from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Ionela Vrejoiu Project Details Overview My job involves investigating the properties of ferroelectric thin film structures through the use of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). The project evolved to cover the study of […]
Ben Hughes from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Ilja Gerhardt Project Details Overview I work with cryogenic and optical equipment in a lab at the 3rd Institute of Physics at Stuttgart University. I work on one large project in conjunction with two graduate students, which […]
Connor Vandenberg from Engineering Physics program Erlangen – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August Supervisor’s name Markus Sondermann Project Details Overview I am part of the 4piPAC (photon atom coupling) group. As the name suggests, the primary goal of this group is to achieve a higher coupling efficiency between light and matter. The project that I […]
Conor Omand from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name BJ Kim Project Details Overview I am working with the neutron scattering group in the Solid State Spectroscopy department at the MPI for Solid State Research. My project so far has been growing crystals of CaCu3Ru4O12 and […]
Emily Hopkins from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Martin Valldor Project Details Overview Solid state chemistry, with a focus on air-sensitive high temperature synthesis. Our aim is to make materials with interesting physical properties, such as 1D systems, odd magnetic properties or superconductors. Project objectives […]
Joel Foo from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Mathieu le Tacon Project Details Overview To perform spectroscopic measurements and other characterization techniques on samples of Strontium-doped 214-Lanthanum Nickel Oxide. The main focus is through Raman Scattering, as that is the specialty of this particular lab. […]
Lucy Wei from Biophysics program Erlangen – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Vahid Sandoghdar Project Details Overview The Nano-Optics division (Vahid Sandoghdar) at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light focuses on the light-matter interactions on a nanometer scale. By combining concepts from quantum optics, laser spectroscopy, […]
Nathan, Cheng from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Dirk, Manske Project Details Overview The project I am working on in Stuttgart is to examine the available models of the bosonic spectral density for various unconventional superconductors both in equilibrium and a non equilibrium pump probe […]
Ryley Hill from Physics and Astronomy program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August Supervisor’s name Andrew Mackenzie Project Details Overview My position at MPI was research assistant. I was working in the Quantum Materials department in a lab containing two cryogenic chambers along with two PhD students, under the supervision of a post-doc group leader. […]
Sungjoon (Sean) Huh from Chemistry program Dresden – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Martin Valldor Project Details Overview Studying mixed anionic system with low dimensional spin ladder and a focus on its physical properties. Project objectives I synthesized compounds with mixed anions and was able to make it pure. Afterwards, […]
Yuan (Andrew) Yao from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Alexander Boris Project Details Overview Many fundamental questions remain open about the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity (HTS) in layered copper oxides. One of the challenges is to understand the competition and coexistence of HTS with other […]
Darrick Lee from Engineering Physics program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Andreas Schnyder Project Details Overview My research project is to look at the bound states localized at defects in different types of superconductors. This is first done computationally, by numerically diagonalizing a Hamiltonian. Then, the goal is […]
Piotr Kot from Physics and Astronomy program Stuttgart – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Placement Information Year you started your placement 2014 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Christian Ast Project Details Overview I am simulating graphene in matlab. I insert various types of defects in the graphene Hamiltonian, and then by doing a Fourier transform I can get the bandstructure. From there I am […]
Work Life
Workshop in a castle held by Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Student Life
Short stay at Guesthouse
Transportation
Tram to work
Workplace
Theory Department at Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Travelling
Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland taken in a train ride from Interlaken to Jungfraujoch.