Optical Condensed Matter Physics
We use optical spectroscopy to study a wide range of ultrafast phenomena in organic materials at nanoscopic lengths and femtosecond (0.000000000000001 s) time scale, with the main focus on exciton and charge dynamics in energy-related and bio-inspired materials.
Organization
The research group Optical Condensed Matter Physics is part of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, a research institute within the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen.
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2025/11/05
PhD Symposium 2025
In the annual PhD symposium of our Zernike Institute, Aina Raichal and Rozemarijn presented a poster :
The topic of Aina's poster was : "Photophysical pathways in TPHA and DI-TPHA"
And Rozemarijn presented on : "Distinguishing Alzheimer’s-Related Amyloid Polymorphs with Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy"
2025/10/27
Garching 2025
Maxim gave a talk "Order from Chaos: Self-Assembly of a Synthetic Light-Harvesting Antenna" at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany, 27 October 2025)
2025/09/15-19
2nd Eiffel project meeting
Maxim and Aina participated in the 2nd EIFFEL project meeting in Mons, Belgium (Sept 15-19).
Aina presented a talk, entitled : "Basic Photophysics of Non-fullerene Acceptor Materials"
2025/9/30
Vilnius Lithuania
Maxim gave a talk “Exciton Dynamics in Artificial Light-Harvesting Complexes: Bridging Experiment and Theory” at the Extended Hanseatic Meeting on Exciton Dynamics and Spectroscopy 2025 (EEDS2025), Vilnius, Lithuania, 30 September – 2 October 2025
2025/8/4
Wrocklaw Poland
Maxim delivered a plenary lecture “Self-Assembly of Artificial Light-Harvesting Complexes: a Molecular Spectroscopist’s Perspective” at the European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (EUCMOS 2025), Wrocław, Poland, 4-29 August 2025
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