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DNRF Centre of Excellence
POLIMA - Centre for Polariton-driven light-matter Interactions
- a research centre based on the Mads Clausen Institute/the Faculty of Engineering at University of Southern Denmark
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Conference
SCOM5 - Strong Coupling with Organic Molecules Conference
16-19 June 2025 - The conference topics cover all aspects of strong light—matter coupling.
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Vacancies
Assistant Professorship in theoretical and computational physics (tenure track position)
POLIMA seeks an outstanding researcher to conduct cutting-edge theoretical research in the areas of theoretical condensed-matter physics, quantum optics, and nano-scale light-matter interactions. The position available from 1 January 2025.
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Vacancies
Assistant Professorship in experimental optical science (tenure track position)
POLIMA seeks an outstanding researcher to conduct cutting-edge experimental research in the area of 2D polaritons, including quantum plasmonic aspects of solid-state matter, interactions with chiral or quantum light sources, and nonlinear polaritonics. The position is available from 1 January 2025.
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News
Funding
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.
Career
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
Qauntum tech
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
Conference
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
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New Publication
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.
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Polariton Science Conference 2024
80 researchers joined the conference in Odense to present results within the research field of polariton-driven nanoscale light-matter interactions
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CAREER
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?
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