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ICN2 Groups and Units

Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems

Group leader: Klaas-Jan Tielrooij

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Overview

Main research lines

  • Heat and charge transport in nanoscale systems
  • Ultrafast optics and optoelectronics
  • Nonlinear optical phenomena
  • Detection and harvesting of light
  • Terahertz technologies
  • Nanofabrication of systems based on 2D materials

Group leader

Tielrooij, Klaas-Jan

Junior Group Leader

Klaas-Jan Tielrooij is Junior Group Leader at the ICN2 since October 2018, heading the Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems group. Between 2018 and 2020, he was Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Excellence Material Science in Mainz (Germany). Before joining the ICN2, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) in December 2010 with a thesis that was awarded the FOM Physics Thesis Prize 2011. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2018, and a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship in 2019. Dr Tielrooij has authored more than 45 peer-reviewed publications, 18 of which in Nature and Science and family, and around 6,000 citations. His H-index is currently 29 (10 years after Ph.D.)