PhD Students

Thomas received his Master of Research degree in Physics from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) in 2024, where he worked on a novel approach for sensing the motion of levitated nanoparticles. He started his PhD in mid 2025, continuing his work  with levitated optomechanical systems.

Fabien received his M.Sc. in mechanical engineering from ETH Zürich in 2022, working on suspended graphene membrane patterning. He joined the photonics group to study 2D materials coupled to plasmonic nanocavities.

Bohdan received his MSc in Physics from University College London (Great Britain) in 2024, where he worked on detecting small electric fields using a nanoparticle levitated in an ion trap. He joined our group in July 2024 and is currently working on a multi-particle cavity setup.

Moritz received his MSc in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zürich after investigating novel noise-reduction schemes in attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy for his master thesis in the Attosecond Physics Group. He then started his PhD in our group in October 2025, working on the control of electrically neutral levitated nanoparticles.

Oscar received his MSc in Electrical Engineering from PUC Rio (Brazil) in 2024, working on levitodynamics. He joined the Photonics group in June 2024 to pursue his PhD, investigating cavity optomechanics and control of levitated nanoparticles.

Qia received his MSc in Materials Science from ETH Zürich in 2024, working on novel light sources based on 2D materials during his master thesis. He is now pursuing his PhD in the Photonics Lab, advancing our understanding of electrically driven Van der Waals heterostructures towards photonic devices.

Moritz received his MSc in Physics from ETH Zürich in 2025, working with levitated nanoparticles in a low-vibration cryostat. He joined the Photonics group in October 2025 to pursue his PhD, investigating levitated optomechanics with hybrid traps.

Paolo received his MSc in Quantum Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2023, working on nanoparticle loading with hollow core fibers. He joined the Photonics group in June 2023 as PhD working on levitated nanoparticles in hybrid traps.

Shengyu received her MSc in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zürich after completing her master thesis in our group. She then decided to stay on to pursue a PhD as well. Her research interest is in 2D materials.

Martynas received his MSc in Quantum Engineering from ETH, working on quantum computing with hybrid quantum systems. He joined the Photonics group in October 2023, investigating levitated optomechanics in a cryostat and automated loading with LIAD.

Yang received his MSc in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich. He carried out his master thesis at EPFL, working on near-quantum-limited Josephson travelling wave parametric amplifier. He will investigate the mid-infrared properties in optoelectronic devices with 2D materials.