PhD Students

Moritz received his MSc in Physics from ETH Zürich in 2019, working on ultrastrong light-matter coupling. He joined the Photonics group as a PhD to study nonlinear optical effects in low-dimensional materials.

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.

Jialiang received his MSc in Materials Science from RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He carried out his master thesis at ETH Zurich, focusing on magnon transport in magnetic insulators. He will be working on inertial sensors based on optically levitated systems.

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.

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.

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.