Nanospectroscopy and imaging for material science
Welcome to our group website. We are dedicated to developing innovative optical microscopy techniques and applying them to investigate light-matter interactions in both fundamental research and application-driven science.
Group leader: Professor Dai Zhang (CV)
- Room: VG 1.109
- Phone:+49-7071-29-77639
- E-mail:dai.zhang-at-uni-tuebingen.de
Team Members
Felix Schneider
- PhD student
- Project: Enhanced Raman and fluorescence microscopy: back focal plane imaging and angular resolved emission
- Room: VG 1.110
- Phone: +49-7071-29-77637
- E-mail: felix.schneider-at-uni-tuebingen.de
Yang Zhao
- Ph D student
- Project: Second harmonic generation of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers
- Room: VG 1.110
- Phone: +49-7071-29-77637
- E-mail:yang.zhao-at-student.uni-tuebingen.de
Tim Parker
- PhD student
- Project: Tuning the electronic structure of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers via dipole engineering
- Room: VG 1.110
- Phone: +49-7071-29-77637
- E-mail: tim-maikel.parker-at-student.uni-tuebingen.de
David Baschnagel
- PhD student
- Project: Angle-resolved tip-enhanced optical spectroscopy
- Room: VG 0.119
- Phone: +49-7071-29-78657
- E-mail: david.baschnagel-at-uni-tuebingen.de
PhD Position (see ‘Open Positions’)
- PhD
- Project: Field-enhanced spectroscopy on photoactive hybrid metallic/semiconducting nanostructures
- Room: VG 0.119
Phone: +49-7071-29-78657
Diana-sheila Heberle
- HiWi
- Project: Angle-resolved tip-enhanced optical spectroscopy
- Room: VG 0.119
Phone: +49-7071-29-78657
Selin Süzen
- PC Praktikum
- Project: Second harmonic imaging of polled nonlinear chromophores
- Room: VG 0.119
- Phone: +49-7071-29-78657
Anna Harzer
- PC Praktikum
- Project: Second harmonic generation and Raman spectrscopy of TMDC
- Room: VG 0.119
- Phone: +49-7071-29-78657
Rose-marie Toccacieli
- PC Praktikum
- Project: The exploration of electro-optic effect via electrical poling of organic chromophores
- Room: VG 0.119
- Phone: +49-7071-29-78657
Former Team Members
- 2025: Schevin Dag, Vertiefungspraktikum, Nonlinear optical microscopy of biologic samples
- 2024: Aylin Ceylan, Vertiefungspraktikum, Construct a confocal optical microscope
- 2024: Aisha Soraya Ahmad, Bachelor thesis, Fluorescence lifetime imaging in biological environment
- 2024: Amrinder Kaur Grewal, Vertiefungspraktikum, Test an optical microscope with ultralow Raman filters
- 2024: Manami Komatsu, Bachelor thesis, Plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy using super-spherical gold NP on mirror configuration
- 2024: Laura Maerz, Bachelor thesis, Two-photon fluorescence and FLIM imaging for identification of polystyrene in cells
- 2024: David Baschnagel, Master thesis, Spatially resolved plasmon-coupled Raman scattering between organic semiconductor and metal film
- 2024: Bianca Marcia, Master thesis, Morphological insights into push-pull organic thin films: An optical spectroscopy approach
- 2023: Johannes Busch, Master Praktikum Independent Study
- 2023: Gianluca Wieth, Vertiefungspraktikum M. Ed.
- 2023: Noah Buth, Bachelor thesis
- 2023: Philipp Pohlmann, Master thesis
- 2023: Teresa Mose, Vertiefungspraktikum M.Ed.
- 2023: Janosch Unseld, Master-Modulepraktikum
- 2023: Simon Baral, Bachelor thesis
- 2023: Dr.rer.nat Lin Pan, PhD thesis 'Linear and nonlinear optical microscopy of layered materials at nanoscale'
- 2023: Quan Liu, Postdoc
- 2023: Yang Li, Visiting Scholar
- 2022: Ann-Kristin Hackbarth, Master thesis
- 2022: Tim Parker, Master thesis
- 2022: Alexander Krauth, Master thesis
- 2022: Bianca Marcia, PC Praktikum
- 2022: Dr.rer.nat Yu-Ting Chen PhD - Tip-Enhanced Optical Spectroscopy: A Fundamental Research
- 2021: Philipp Pohlmann, PC Praktikum
- 2021: Felix Schneider, PC Praktikum
- 2021: Tobias Köninger, PC Praktikum
- 2021: Mieke Buckley (ERASMUS student from University Durham, UK), Master thesis
- 2021: Lukas Lang, Independent study
- 2020: Dr. rer. nat Anke Horneber, Postdoc
- 2020: Alexander Huber, PC Praktikum
- 2020: Jonas Hummler, PC Praktikum
- 2019: Msc. Peng Miao, PhD thesis
- 2019: Irini Grigoriadou, Internship
- 2019: Jacqueline Händel, Internship
- 2019: Arthur Galbacs, Internship
- 2019: Heiko Schmidt, Internship
- 2018: Tim Parker Bachelor thesis - The influences of current and ion doses on the geometry of HIM fabricated nanopillars
- 2018: Tobias Köninger Bachelor thesis - Optical characterization of nanostructures fabricated by helium ion microscopy
- 2018: Christopher Dobler Master thesis - Raman spectroscopy of Si nanowires
- 2018: Dr.rer.nat Marius van den Berg PhD - Optical microscopy and spectroscopy of alternative solar cell components
- 2017: Dr.rer.nat Jiyong Wang PhD - Plasmonic nanostructures
- Dr.rer.nat Laura Hennemann PhD - TERS and SERS on biological samples
- Jellian Jamin Master internship - Implementing higher order lasermodes to a confocal setup
- Martin Meixner Master internship - Angle resolved spectroscopy on PCPDTBT polymers
- Domenik Schauppel Bachelor thesis - Polarized emission of CdSe/CdS nanorods
- Nils Merten Bachelor thesis - Development of a new confcal microscope
- Kathrin Swider Diplom arbeit - Characterisation of boundary morphologies
- Thorsten Hummel Master internship - Implementation of an electrochemical cell
- Vincent Mehrmann Master internship - Lifetime measurements of CdSe/CdS nanorods