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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2026/06/07
Presentation Sundar
Sundar gave an oral talk titled, "Real-time Monitoring of Self-assembly of Molecular Nanotubes" at Vlieland 2026.
2026/06/07
Poster Aina
Aina presented a poster entitled, "Photophysical Pathways in TPHA and DI-TPHA." at the Vlieland Meeting 2026, organized by Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen (June 7-9, 2026).
2026/01/20
PhD defence Sundar
Congratulations to Sundar Raj Krishnaswamy on earning the title of Doctor!
Sundar successfully defended his PhD titled - "Real-Time Pathways of Hierarchical Self-Assembly in Artificial Light-Harvesting Nanotubes" on January 20th 2026.
2026/06/03
Eiffel 2026
Aina and Maxim participated in the 3rd EIFFEL project meeting, hosted in Dresden Germany (April 13-17,2026).
During this meeting, Aina gave a talk entitled, "Photophysical Pathways in TPHA and DI-TPHA."
2026-05-27
Graduation
Congratulations to Rozemarijn on graduating summa cum laude for her Master’s project, “Development of a Structure-Sensitive Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy Platform for Detecting Alzheimer’s Biomarkers.”
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"
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