STUDENT PROFILES

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 […]

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 […]

Placement Information Year you started your placement 2018 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Stefan Kaiser Project Details Overview The 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Placement Information Year you started your placement 2013 Placement period January – April, May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Christian Ast Project Details Overview Over the last 6 months, I’ve been working on a computer simulation that simulates graphene (a carbon-based 2D lattice). The simulation was done via implementing MATLAB scripts. Over my […]

Placement Information Year you started your placement 2013 Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Mathieu Le Tacon Project Details Overview This project involves using Raman spectroscopy to try to gain insight into the the crystal and magnetic structure of Sr3Fe2O7 at different oxygen dopings. Project objectives Use Raman spectroscopy to probe […]

Placement Information Year you started your placement 2013 Placement period May – August Supervisor’s name Luca Ghiringhelli Project Details Overview Implementation of a saddle point searching algorithm in a hyper dimensional space. Project objectives Developing and implementing an algorithm capable of finding an transition state for a chemical reaction. Project status Completed Presentation My Co-op […]