We have submitted a new pre-print examining the origins of the ultrafast phase transition in VO2 from a thermodynamic perspective on the arXiv.
03/2026
We have several new group members.
Noah Tettenborn starts as a PhD student to study the non-linear optical properties of quantum materials
Brayan Elian Castilblanco Ortigoza starts a masters project on “Symmetry analysis of the light induced changes in the linear and nonlinear response of Tellurium”.
and Asbjørn Bloch Rosenvinge, Louise de Neergaard Ravn, Aksel Lind Vejbæk start bachelors projects on coherent phonons in quantum materials.
02/2026
Our latest work from SwissFEL on the role of surface heterogeneity on the melting of orbital ordering has been published in Nature Materials.
10/2025
Our latest work on coherent phonons in the layered manganite Pr0.5Ca1.5MnO4 has just been submitted to the arXiv. All the data for this work is open access on a zenodo repository.
08/2025
Thomas, Signe and Emil all successfully defend their masters thesis in the group.
Congratulations to all and a special thanks for thesis examiner Robert Feidenhans'l
06/2025
Emmanuel successfully defends his PhD thesis at ICFO in Barcelona. Congratulations Emmanuel!
06/2025
A pre-print describing our linear and non-linear optical setup paper is now available on the arXiv.
05/2025
Xiang Li joins our group as a visiting PhD student from Shanghai Tech University
03/2025
Mads Galsgaard Frederiksen joins our group for his bachelor's project on dynamics in the ϕ4-model of phase transitions.
02/2025
Our latest work from SwissFEL on the role of surface heterogeneity on the melting of orbital ordering is now available on the arXiv
07/2024
Nitesh and Hanna both pass their masters thesis defense and will soon start their PhDs in Germany and France.
Well done on some great work and good luck with the next step!
07/2024
Nature Physics has published a Research Breifing article that summerize our recent paper on using transient correlated disorder to enhance the efficiency of photo-induced phase transitions. It also provides some "behind the scenes" motivation for the work and why the referees and editors found the paper interesting.
05/2024
