Contact and Affiliations
- E-Mail:
- thomas.zentgraf@uni-paderborn.de
- Phone:
- +49 5251 60-5865
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-8662-1101
- Web:
- Homepage
- Social Media:
- Office Address:
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Pohlweg 47-49
33098 Paderborn - Room:
- P8.3.03
- E-Mail:
- thomas.zentgraf@uni-paderborn.de
- Phone:
- +49 5251 60-5865
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-8662-1101
- Web:
- Homepage
- Social Media:
- Office Address:
-
Pohlweg 47-49
33098 Paderborn - Room:
- P8.3.03
About Thomas Zentgraf
Professor Thomas Zentgraf holds diploma degrees in Physics from the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany, as well as in Engineering from the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany. In 2006 he finished his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Harald Giessen at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Stuttgart and the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Thereafter, he worked as a Humboldt Research Fellow in the group of Prof. Xiang Zhang at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, where he led the plasmonics research activities. Since May 2011 he is head of the Ultrafast Nanophotonics Research Group at Paderborn University. In 2016 he received an ERC Consolidator Grant for studying the nonlinear light-matter-interaction. In 2020 he became the Chairman of the Center for Optoelectronics & Photonics Paderborn and in 2021 Fellow of the Max Planck School of Photonics. His present research is focused on studying nano-optical system and artificially structured materials for optical applications by linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy.
Curriculum Vitae
Since 04/2011: Professor for Applied Physics, Head of the Ultrafast Nanophotonics Group
Department of Physics, Paderborn University, Germany
2019: Visiting Researcher
Nonlinear Physics Center, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
08/2015 - 01/2016: Guest Professor
Department of Physics, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
2012: Visiting Researcher
Department of Physics, City University Hongkong, Hongkong
09/2007 - 03/2011: Research Associate
Department for Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, USA
07/2006 - 08/2007: Postdoc
4th Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, Germany
27.06.2006: Doctorate
Experimental Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Giessen
01/2003 - 06/2006: PhD student
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
09/2005 - 11/2005: Visiting Researcher
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley (USA)
2001 - 2002: Degree programme
M.Sc. Applied Physics, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany
1996 - 2001: Degree programme
B.Sc. Physical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences, Jena, Germany
03/2000 - 01/2001: Master Student
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Mechanics, Jena, Germany
2021: Fellow of the Max Planck School of Photonics, Germany
2016: ERC Starting Grant, European Commission
2011: Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, European Commission
2007: Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2006: Fellow of the Elite Program of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation
2006: Dr.-Heinrich-Düker Award of the Heidehof Foundation, Germany
2005: Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2002: Georg-Simon-Ohm Award of the German Physical Society (DPG)
Research
Research Interests
- Optical materials and hybrid systems
- Light-Matter-Interaction with nanostructures
- Nonlinear-optical spectroscopy
- Optical holography with metasurfaces
Selected Projects
- Near-field coupled nonlocal optical metasurface for versatile polarization and bandstructure manipulations
- TRR 142 - Three-photon state generation with on-chip pump suppression in topological waveguides (A09*)
- PhoQuant: Photonic Quantum Computing - Quantum computing evaluation platform
- ERC-Grant: Functional extreme nonlinear nanomaterials
- SPP 1391 - Coupling mediated coherent control of localized plasmonic resonances
Publications
Selected Publications
S.S. Kruk, L. Wang, B. Sain, Z. Dong, J. Yang, T. Zentgraf, Y. Kivshar, Nature Photonics 16 (2022) 561–565.
P. Georgi, M. Massaro, K.H. Luo, B. Sain, N. Montaut, H. Herrmann, T. Weiss, G. Li, C. Silberhorn, T. Zentgraf, Light: Science & Applications 8 (2019) 70.
R. Zhao, B. Sain, Q. Wei, C. Tang, X. Li, T. Weiss, L. Huang, Y. Wang, T. Zentgraf, Light: Science & Applications 7 (2018).
W. Ye, F. Zeuner, X. Li, B. Reineke, S. He, C.-W. Qiu, J. Liu, Y. Wang, S. Zhang, T. Zentgraf, Nature Communications 7 (2016).
J. Valentine, S. Zhang, T. Zentgraf, E. Ulin-Avila, D.A. Genov, G. Bartal, X. Zhang, Nature 455 (2008) 376–379.
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Teaching
Current Courses
- Physikalisches Projektpraktikum
- Physikalisches Kolloquium
- Experimentalphysik III Übung
- Experimentalphysik III
- Aktuelle Fragen der Ultrakurzzeitspektroskopie
Scientific Engagement
2023 | Program Committee, "CLEO Europe", Munich, Germany
2023 | Program Committee, "OPTICA Optical Imaging Congress", Boston, USA
2021 | Session organizer "New Frontiers in the Design, Fabrication, and Applications of Metamaterials" at MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, USA
2020 | Scientific Advisory Committee, "5th International Conference on Photonics Solutions", Pattaya, Thailand
2020 | Organizer of the focus session "Tailored Nonlinear Photonics" at the DPG Fall Meeting, Germany
2017 | Program Committee, "SIAM Physics Congress 2017" in Rayong, Thailand
2015 | Program Committee, "ICPS 2015" congress in Hua Hin, Thailand
2014 | Organizer of the 551. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: "Active Nanoplasmonics and Metamaterial Dynamics" in Bad Honnef, Germany
2011 | Program Committee of the "Metamaterials" congress in Barcelona, Spain
2017 | Guest editor IOP, Journal of Physics D
Since 2001 | Member of the German Physical Society (DPG)
2018 | Founding member of the Institute for Photonics Quantum Systems (PhoQS), Paderborn University, Germany