What a wonderful experience! With some of the PhDs at the wine tasting in #Paradiesvogel#Bayreuth. Great wines, competent advice and lots of enjoyment.

Successful participation in the ICSM 2024 in Dresden! Our OPTEXC PhD Ms Sruthy Asa Rajan has won the poster award "Materials Horizons". Congratulations dear Sruthy!

Our next lab tour at PCI, Physical chemistry, polymers and colloids for sustainable materials and technologies - Retsch group @UniBT@Retschpekt, leaded by Maximilian Theis: The CrESP process allows for the synthesis of nanozised silica particles with a gradual change in size.

The µ-spectroscopy setup faciliates the measurement of spatially resolved UV-Vis spectroscopy in reflectance and transmission, as well as fluorescense spectroscopy - lab tour Maximilian Theis

We congratulate Professor Johannes Brendel on his admission to the IRTG and look forward to a good exchange! Good luck with the project #OPTEXC

The summer workshop at #UniBT took place on 12 July. There were many opportunities for dialogue and good discussions #OPTEXC

A visit from down under: One of our Australian PIs, Prof Trevor Smith(right), UoM, is enjoying a few summer days with his German PI colleague, Prof Jürgen Köhler, EPIX, University of Bayreuth, in the Fichtelgebirge. #UBT #OPTEXC

Thanks to#JeffersonLam at #UBT for our #OPTEXC project! "I can't express enough thanks for everyone who has supported me in this visit, especially the OPTEXC IRTG program who has facilitated this visit, and I am excited to maintain collaborations even when I return to Australia!"

After 6 months sabbatical: welcome back #evaherzig! The time was also used for a meeting with the group of #ChrisMcNeill at Monash University, Melbourne.

Congratulations to Max from our #OPTEXC team for receiving the Elsevier Poster Award at ECIS 2024 in Copenhagen. His research on controlling order-to-disorder transitions in colloidal 2D assemblies was highly recognized.

...even outside ECIS 2024 in Copenhagen, #MaximilianTheis had a good time with other physicists (#MarkusRetsch), i.e. exploring the city and at the conference dinner.

We welomce: Leshy and my research is focused on the ordering of fluorophores into arrays. In Bayreuth, we are performing antibunching measurements on the MT200 microscope (pictured) in a Hanbury-Brown-Twiss setup to determine the presence of single emitting species.

Another Lab Tour at EPVIII, #UBT, guided by #FabianBrütting. He explains the set-up: The ultrafast spectroscopy setup including the strong terahertz source allows controlling excitons in semiconductor nanomaterials on sub-picosecond timescales.

Time for another Lab Tour: Simon of EPIII at #UBT is showing the other students of #OPTEXC his optical setup for measuring the 2D spectra of single molecules.

A warm welcome to our PhD #Subhalakshmi Suresh Kumar from #Monash University, who will be researching at #UBT for 1 year as part of her joint PhD. Various methods of X-ray scattering can be performed on this device (‘GIWAXS’ also known as grazing incidence wide angle scattering).

Congratulations on the completion of the doctorate of #Simon Biberger, Chair of Soft Matter Optoelectronics, Experimental Physics II of the #UBT and a valuable member of the #OPTEXC PhD group. All the best for your future!

Meeting for a drink and talk at the "Winterdorf" with a few of our #OPTEXC PhD`s.

Another interesting workshop that some of our #OPTEXC PhDs were able to experience. Title: ‘Plan and Follow Through: Goal Setting, Time Tracking and Project Management for PhDs’ by Dr #EmmaGeoffray.

📢open positions Universität Bayreuth University of Melbourne Monash University 10 positions for Doctoral Researchers starting from March 2025 for the OPTEXC project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) #PhDposition #physics #research More information: optexc.uni-bayreuth.de/en/We-are-hiri…