• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 24.09.2024

  PEPS 2024

  Discussing Physics of Excitons and Polaritons in Iceland

• 16.09.2024

  Nordita Workshop

  “Coherent Control with Modified Vacuum Fields” in August 2024

• 11.09.2024

  POLIMA retreat

  Kickstart of the autumn semester 2024

• 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'

• 05.09.2024

  Visiting PhD Student from KAIST

  Minsoo Jang will spend 6 months at POLIMA

• 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.

• 28.08.2024

  POLIMA Visiting Professor - Joel Yang from Singapore University of Technology and Design

  Time to discuss polariton research and develop new ideas

• 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?

• 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

• 03.06.2024

  OWTNM Workshop 2024

  POLIMA PhD students visit the OWTNM Workshop 2024 in Kiel and receive poster award

• 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

• 22.04.2024

  What is a PhD hat?

  The German PhD hat has become a POLIMA tradition

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 01.02.2024

  POLIMA PhD defense

  1 February, Theis Pilegaard Rasmussen successfully defended his PhD thesis.

• 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

• 18.01.2024

  Sven Ebel receives award

  PhD student at POLIMA awarded a best poster presentation at NANOMeta2024

• 10.01.2024

  POLIMA retreat: Science, snow & board games

  The POLIMA team and guests has spent 2 days in Svanninge Bjerge in Southern Funen

• 19.12.2023

  PhD defense

  15 December, P. Elli Stamatopoulou defended her PhD thesis

• 07.12.2023

  From ICFO to POLIMA

  Welcome to Eduardo Dias who started as postdoc in POLIMA 1 November

• 01.12.2023

  Mikkel Have Eriksen receives award

  PhD student at POLIMA awarded best poster presentation at NANOP2023

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 19.09.2023

  Dream team

  In the fall, five new researchers join POLIMA.

• 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

• 05.09.2023

  POLIMA Seminar

  Two days on south Funen with physics and sun

• 10.08.2023

  Fedor Shuklin defended his PhD

  Today, Fedor Shuklin defended his PhD degree

• 07.08.2023

  Summer visit from the Max Born Institute

  Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri has spent three weeks at POLIMA during the summer

• 05.07.2023

  POLIMA summer

  Vacation time has started

• 03.07.2023

  POLIMA Adjunct Professor

  Professor Nuno Peres, University of Minho, has been appointed Adjunct Professor

• 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

• 12.06.2023

  New POLIMA PhD student

  In the spring, Nikolaos Kyvelos has started as PhD in POLIMA.

• 02.06.2023

  POLIMA Opening Seminar

  POLIMA international collaborators gave presentations within the topic of nanoptics and polariton physics

• 01.06.2023

  Opening of POLIMA

  1 June, the new Center of Excellence POLIMA - Center for Polariton-driven light-matter Interactions officially opened

• 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"

• 10.05.2023

  New PhD Student in POLIMA

  1 April, Martin Koch Nørgaard started as PhD student in POLIMA

• 26.04.2023

  Electron-induced nonlinear dynamics in atomic chains

  New paper exploring nonlinear light-matter interactions induced by free electrons.

• 13.04.2023

  Visit by Professor Zhipei Sun

  Networking and guest lecture about '2D Materials for Grand Photonic Challenges'

• 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.

• 01.04.2023

  Bachelor students at POLIMA

  7 bachelor students this spring

• 24.03.2023

  Visit from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)

  Eduardo Dias joined POLIMA for 3 days

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 22.02.2023

  Visiting researcher from KU Leuven

  Xuezhi Zheng visits POLIMA for three months

• 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

• 02.02.2023

  Photonics West 2023

  Two POLIMA PhD students in San Fransisco

• 06.01.2023

  Appointment of POLIMA tenured Associate Professors

  Dr. Joel Cox and Dr. Christos Tserkezis appointed Associate Professors.

• 01.12.2022

  POLIMA - new Center of Excellence

  DNRF has granted 60 million DKK for POLIMA - a new Center of Excellence