Helmut Hörner successfully defended his PhD on “Spectrally and Spatially Degenerate Coherent Perfect Absorbers and a Renormalization-Free Model for Casimir Forces” – congratulations! Many thanks go to Li Ge (CUNY) and Tsampikos Kottos (Wesleyan) for serving as referees for the thesis. Li even made it all the way from NY City to be there in person for the defense (see photo).
Lukas Rachbauer successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Classical and Quantum Waves in Complex Environments” – congratulations! Many thanks go to Ben Stickler (from Ulm University) and Thomas Juffmann (from the University of Vienna) for serving as external referees and examinators.
Kevin Pichler successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Generalized Application and Time-Reversal of the Lasing Principle” – congratulations! Many thanks go to Lorenzo Pavesi and Alex Krasnok for serving as external referees.
Alexander Schumer successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Exceptional Physics near non-Hermitian Degeneracies” – congratulations! Many thanks go to Ulf Peschel and Iacopo Carusotto for serving as external referees.
Michael Horodynski successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Scattering in Complex Environments: Theory, Wavefront Shaping and System Design” – congratulations! Many thanks also to Owen Miller and Frank Scheffold for serving as external referees.
Elena Redchenko from Johannes Fink’s group at IST Austria successfully defended her PhD – congratulations! The experiment she carried out based on theoretical suggestions from our group will be presented in a joint publication that is currently in preparation.
Matthias Kühmayer successfully defended his PhD on “Optimal Wave Fields in Complex Scattering Environments” – congratulations! Many thanks also to Gregor Thalhammer and Thomas Weiss for serving as external referees.
Matthias Zens successfully defended his PhD on “Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Spin Ensembles: From the Semiclassical to the Quantum Regime” – congratulations! Many thanks also to Johannes Feist and Ulrich Hohenester for serving as external referees.
Helmut Hörner and David Globosits, who worked with us on their master projects, just graduated and will pursue their PhD in our group – congratulations and welcome!
Jakob Melchard successfully defended his master thesis – congratulations!
