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Research Zernike (ZIAM) Physics of nanodevices OptoSpintronics of Quantum Materials

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Optospintronics group (October 2024)
Optospintronics group (October 2024)

Principal Investigator

Marcos H. D. Guimaraes
Marcos H. D. Guimaraes

Marcos H. D. Guimarães

Associate Professor

Email: m.h.guimaraes[at]rug[dot]nl
Room: 5113.0245
Phone: +31 50 36 37968

Postdocs

Daniel Vaquero Monte
Daniel Vaquero Monte

Daniel Vaquero Monte

Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: d.vaquero.monte[at]rug[dot]nl

Room: 5613.0242
Phone: +31 50 36 34564

Research area: Photocurrent spectroscopy and electroluminescence in 2D heterostructures

Kurea Nakagawa
Kurea Nakagawa

Kurea Nakagawa

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: k.nakagawa[at]rug[dot]nl

Room: 5613.0245

Phone: +31 50 36 34564

Research area: Opto-spincaloritronics in 2D heterostructures

PhD Students

Cedric Cordero Silis
Cedric Cordero Silis

Cédric A. Cordero Silis

Email: c.a.cordero.silis[at]rug[dot]nl

Room: 5113.0227
Phone: +31 50 36 34880

Research area: Opto-Spintronics and Topology in 2D materials

Rixt Bosma
Rixt Bosma

Rixt Bosma

Email: r.bosma[at]rug[dot]nl

Room: 5113.0138
Phone: +31 50 36 34564

Research area: Ultrafast optics in 2D magnets

Teresa Lopez Carrasco
Teresa Lopez Carrasco

Teresa Lopez Carrasco

Email: m.t.lopez.carrasco[at]rug[dot]nl

Room: 5113.0225
Phone: +31 50 36 34880

Research area: OptoSpintronics in 2D semiconductor heterostructures

Georgios Stylianou
Georgios Stylianou

Georgios Stylianou

Email: g.stylianou[at]rug[dot]nl

Room: 5613.0
Phone: +31 50 36 34880

Research area: OptoSpintronics in 2D semiconductor heterostructures

Vitor Almada
Vitor Almada

Vitor de Melo Almada

Email: v.de.melo.almada[at]rug[dot]nl

Room: 5613.0
Phone: +31 50 36 34880

Research area: Opto-spintronics with 2D ferroelectrics

Torben Pfeifer
Torben Pfeifer

Torben S. Pfeifer

Email: t.s.pfeifer[at]rug[dot]nl

Room: 5613.0
Phone: +31 50 36 34880

Research area: Ultrafast magnonics

Master Students

Patrick Kormendy
Patrick Kormendy

Patrick Kormendy

Applied Physics - MSc

Email: p.kormendy[at]student[dot]rug[dot]nl

Room: 5613.02xx
Phone: +31 50 36 34564

Research area: Photonic crystals using 2D heterostructures

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Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers

Samer Kurdi (2024-2025), Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University, UK.

PhD Students

Aaron Mendoza (2019-2024), Postdoc researcher at the Univ. of Groningen, NL
Anna Marx (2019-2024, Software Engineer at Resato Hydrogen Technology, NL.
Adam J. Watson (2019-2023), Lithography System Engineer at ASML, NL
Freddie Hendriks (2019-2023), Software Developer at Lambert Instruments, NL.
Rafael Rojas-Lopez (2018-2023), Postdoc researcher at TU Dortmund, DE.
Jan Hidding (2018-2023), Postdoc researcher at TU Denmark, DK.

Master Students

Torben Pfeifer (Physics - 2024/2025)
Stella Arvaniti
(Physics- 2022/2023)
Rixt Bosma (Nanoscience - 2022/2023)
Kostas Panagiotis Rampotis
(Nanoscience - 2023)
Harshan Madeshwaran
(Nanoscience - 2023)
Cédric Cordero
(Nanoscience - 2021/2022)
Qianshan Feng (Nanoscience - 2022)
Vishesh Saxena (Nanoscience - 2020/2021)
Pieter Brongers (Nanoscience - 2021)
Sytze Tirion (Applied Physics - 2019-2020)

Bachelor Students

Lakshya Awatramani (Honours College Physics - 2025)
Rindert Walinga (Honours College Physics - 2025)
Leo Clerici (Applied Physics - 2024/2025)
Gabriel Platzer
(Applied Physics - 2024/2025)
Yusei Nozaki
(Physics - 2024/2025)
Floris Labohm
(Applied Physics - 2024/2025)
Martijn Takens
(Applied Physics - 2024/2025)
Charlotte Broekmeulen
(Applied Physics - 2024)
Julian Bernat
(Applied Physics - 2024)
Igor Denz
(Honours College Applied Physics - 2024)
Marcus Kanestrom
(Physics - 2023/2024)
Hamza Reedy (Applied Physics - 2023/2024)
Patrick Kormendy (Applied Physics - 2022/2023)
Anders Rasmussen (Physics - 2022/2023)
Ilija Gjerapic
(Honors College Applied Physics - 2022)
Rixt Bosma (Applied Physics - 2021)
Thomas Dam (Physics - 2021)
Klaiv Mertiri (Physics - 2021)

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