Prof. Gierz
Prof. Dr. Isabella Gierz (head of the group)
Office: WNA3.0.009 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7501 Email: isabella.gierz-at-ur.de
CV
Previous and current positions
| since 04/2019 | W2 professor at the Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics at the University of Regensburg |
| 2013-2019 | Leader of an independent research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany www.mpsd.mpg.de/5841/ued-gierz |
| 2011-2013 | Postdoc in the Condensed Matter Dynamics Department of Prof. Andrea Cavalleri at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany |
Education
| 2007-2013 | PhD student in the department for nanostructure physics of Prof. Klaus Kern at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Gemany |
| 2006-2007 | Diploma student in the department of Prof. Eberhard Umbach at the University of Würzburg, Germany |
| 2001-2007 | Studies of Physics at the University of Würzburg, Germany, and the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France |
Stipends and Awards
| 2002-2007 | Stipend of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes | |
| 2011 | Otto Hahn Medal and Otto Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society for the discovery of a giant spin splitting on semiconducting surfaces | |
| 2019 | ERC Starting Grant |
Technician
Thomas Seitz (Technician) Office: WNA3.0.010 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7502 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: thomas.seitz-at-ur.de
PhD students
Maria-Elisabeth Federl
Office: WNA3.0.013 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7504 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: maria-elisabeth.federl-at-ur.de
Maria uses confinement heteroepitaxy to make new heterostructures that consist of monolayer graphene and 2D Sn. She characterizes these samples with ARPES, XPS, and LEED and compares the measured electronic structure with DFT calculations looking for indications of hybridization between the layers. She investigates these heterostructures with tr-ARPES looking for ultrafast charge transfer and other proximity-induced non-equilibrium effects.
Johannes Gradl
Office: WNA3.0.013 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7504 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: johannes.gradl-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Johannes investigates the microscopic scattering channels that are responsible for ultrafast charge transfer in WS2/graphene heterostructures. He focuses on the role of defects and the twist angle between the layers.
Michael Herb
Office: WNA3.0.013 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7504 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: michael.herb-at-ur.de
Mischa is growing KxC60 films on different substrates for future tr-ARPES experiments on light-induced superconductivity.
Niklas Hofmann
Office: WNA3.0.011 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7503 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: niklas.hofmann-at-ur.de
Niklas is bulding a tr-ARPES setup with narrow-band THz pump pulses to investigate the electronic structure of different transition metal dichalcogenides driven at resonance to the infrared-active in-plane phonon.
Leonard Weigl
Office: WNA3.0.011 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7503 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: leonard.weigl-at-ur.de
Leo is using tr-ARPES to demonstrate dynamical stabilization of non-equilibrium band structures with the goal to realize, e.g., Floquet topological insulators.
Master students
Maximilian Stecher
Office: WNA3.0.010 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7502 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: maximilian.stecher-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Max uses confinement heteroepitaxy to make new heterostructures that consist of monolayer graphene and another 2D material such as 2D Au, 2D Gd, or 2D Yb. He then uses tr-ARPES to investigate the non-equilibrium carrier dynamics of these heterostructures looking for ultrafast charge transfer and other proximity-induced non-equilibrium effects.
Kai Frisch
Office: WNA3.0.010 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7502 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: kai.frisch-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Kai is investigating the band structure of kagome metals exposed to strong periodic driving at mid-infrared and Terahertz frequencies.
Bach. students
Alexander Steinkirchner Office: PHY 7.3.01 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7401 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: alexander.steinkirchner-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Alex is working on an intense mid-infrared source based on difference frequency generation in GaSe that will deliver pump pulses for tr-ARPES experiments on Floquet-Bloch states and light-induced superconductivity.
Matthias Wagner Office: PHY 7.3.01 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7401 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: matthias1.wagner-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Matthias is working on a grating stretcher that will be used for chirped-pulse difference frequency generation of narrow-band wavelength-tunable mid-infrared pulses.
Franziska Bergmeier Office: PHY 7.3.01 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7401 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: franziska.bergmeier-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Franziska is working on building and characterizing a setup for time-resolved ARPES with mid-infrared pump light.
Christian-Laurin Maisch Office: PHY 7.3.01 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7401 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: christian-laurin.maisch-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Christian is using our new 100kHz laser source to generate XUV pulses in a HHG beamline for high-repetition rate trARPES.
Sonja Klug Office: PHY 7.3.01 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7401 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: sonja.klug-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Sonja uses confinement heteroepitaxy to grow Gr-sqrt(3)/SiC heterostructures and characterizes these structures with LEED, XPS and ARPES.
Jan Schmid Office: PHY 7.3.01 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7401 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: jan.schmid-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Jan is working on a new narrowband mid-infrared source to prepare time-resolved ARPES experiments on resonant phonon pumping.
Lukas Freundorfer Office: PHY 7.3.01 Phone: +49 (0)941 943 7401 Lab: +49 (0)941 943 7505 Email: lukas1.freundorfer-at-stud.uni-regensburg.de
Lukas is using our new 100kHz laser source to generate XUV pulses in a HHG beamline for high-repetition rate trARPES.
