Our long-term postdoc and collaborator Ivor Krešić is leaving the group to take up a permanent position at the Institute of Physics in Zagreb and Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero from the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Innsbruck is joining us on a tenure-track position. All the best, Ivor, for your future endeavours – we hope to stay in touch! – and welcome, Carlos – we look forward to the collaboration!
Two of our works, published together with the groups of Matthieu Davy (in Nature) and of Ori Katz (in Science), were selected jointly for the Top 10 breakthroughs of the year 2022 by PhysicsWorld. Thanks to everyone involved!
Ulf Leonhardt from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel is currently visiting us as a guest professor and giving a lecture on the “quantum vacuum” – a topic to which he has made several seminal contributions. Welcome Ulf!
Andrea Pupic, who carried out her Bachelor thesis on “coherent perfect absorbers” with Kevin Pichler in our group, received the poster price for her research at the event “Celebrating Women in Physics” – congratulations!
Our work on “Transforming Space with Non-Hermitian Dielectrics” was selected as the cover article of Physical Review Letters. Many thanks go to Ivor Krešić, who first-authored this paper and prepared the figure, and to our collaborators Ulf Leonhardt (Weizmann) and Kostas Makris (Heraklion).
Ulf Leonhardt from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel is currently visiting the group in terms of an extended research stay and we enjoy very much the fruitful collaboration with him.
Konstantinos Makris, our previous Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the group and long-term collaborator, obtained tenure at the University of Crete. Congratulations!
An image proposed by Matthias Kühmayer to illustrate our work on `Scattering Invariant Modes´ was selected for the June cover image of Nature Photonics. Congrats to Matthias!
This year, three of our present and past postdocs in the group have obtained faculty positions in India as well as research positions in Croatia and at the CNRS in France. Congratulations to Himadri, Ivor and Nicolas!
An image produced by Matthias Kühmayer for our recent work on optimal wave control was chosen as the header for the March online issue of Nature Photonics.
