Position in POLIMA: PhD Student
Theis Rasmussen obtained his bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in 2019. In 2020, he joined the Center for Nano Optics (SDU) to work on a master’s thesis focusing on graphene plasmonics. In 2021, Theis became a PhD student working on light-matter interactions in two-dimensional materials and nanostructured waveguides under the supervision of Joel Cox and supported by funding from the Danish Institute for Advanced Study (D-IAS). In the fall of 2022, Theis became a visiting PhD fellow for four months in the Nanophotonics Theory group led by Prof. Javier García de Abajo at ICFO—The Institute of Photonic Sciences. Theis successfully defended his thesis entitled “Directing nanoscale light-matter interactions with polaritons in low-dimensional systems” on February 1, 2024, with Profs. Nahid Talegbi (Christian Albrechts University in Kiel), Alejandro Manjavacas (Instituto de Óptica–CSIC), and Christos Tserkezis (POLIMA) as members of the examination committee.
During his stay at SDU, Theis co-authored the following publications:
1. T. P. Rasmussen, P. A. D. Gonçalves, Sanshui Xiao, Sebastian Hofferberth, N. Asger Mortensen, and Joel D. Cox, “Polaritons in two-dimensional parabolic waveguides”, ACS Photonics 8, 1840 (2021).
2. Theis P. Rasmussen, A. Rodríguez Echarri, F. Javier García de Abajo, and Joel D. Cox, “Nonlocal and cascaded effects in nonlinear graphene nanoplasmonics”, Nanoscale 15, 3150 (2023).
3. Theis P. Rasmussen, Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri, Joel D. Cox, F. Javier García de Abajo, “Generation of entangled waveguided photon pairs by free electrons”, arXiv:2312.12209 (2023)
In February 2024, Theis joined Danske Bank as a Senior Data Scientist.
