Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Integrated Quantum Photonics

Welcome to our group website!

We are currently looking for motivated Bachelor, Master and PhD students as well as Post-Docs. For details and information on how to apply, take a look at Open Positions.

News & Highlights

• July 1^th, 2025: Congratulations to Julian on the successful completion of your PhD thesis on the topic: Design, Fabrication, and Application of Novel Photonic Quantum Devices for Communication and Sensing. The group is proud of you. 

• June 30^th, 2025: It's time to say goodbye. Matthew is leaving the group. Your work has been valued. 
• June 28^th, 2025: This year, during the Long Night of Science, we demonstrated the principle of the total reflection of light on a jet of water. We also gave an interactive demonstration of the colour spectrum and a spectrosmeter. We were able to introduce our research to many children and interested visitors. See you next year!

   

  

• June 28^th, 2025: Maarten is at the Long Night of Science event of the Berlin University Alliance: "KUNST TRIFFT WISSENSCHAFT: Exhibition and Talk with Artists and Researchers". He presents our winning project in the Artist Talk and explains the magic between art and science.

   

• June 19^th, 2025: Laura won the Lise-Meitner Award for the best PHD. Congratulations!!
• June 16^th, 2025: Marco wins the Berlin University Alliance art meets science ideas competition! The image is printed on posters and will hang around the city (inside the Ring). Check out the link: Quantenlicht trifft Diamant-inspiriert vom Sägefisch

• May, 2025: Welcome to Laurato who will join us as a Master student!
• April 28th, 2025: Congratulations to Laura on very successfully completing your PhD! We are happy that you stay with us as a senior researcher.

• April, 2025: Welcome to Malo (Post-Doc), Lucca (PhD-Student), Marie (Master student) and Leon (Master student)!
• March 19, 2025: The jury of the Grand Challenge of Quantum Communication #GCQK organised by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has chosen the team ''QPIS Quantum Photonic Integrated Scalable Memory'' as the winner. Congratulations to Tim Schröder and Gregor Pieplow and the entire team!
  
  
  

   Picture 📸: BMBF, Laurin Schmid / bundesfoto

• March 12, 2025: Congratulations to Julian and coauthors to the publication of their multi pixel magnetometer work!
• March 6, 2025: It's time to say goodbye! Sinan and Hannaneh are leaving us. 
• January 23, 2025: Our guest researcher Prof. Nir Rotenberg is leaving us. It was nice to work with you! 
• January 15, 2025: Welcome! Alina Feicht joins our group as a student assistant.
• December 3, 2024: We were awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council! For the next five year, we will work on the project "Multidimensional Hyperentangled Photon Graph States - HyperGraph". Read all about it in the press release.
• November 22, 2024: Charlotta Gurr successfully defends her Master. Congratulations to her!
• November 11, 2024: We participate in the Japanese‐German Symposium on Applications of Quantum Computers, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Berlin-Tokyo city partnership.
  
  
  
  
• November 8, 2024: Welcome! Matthew Kendall is starting his PhD in our group.
• November 4, 2024: Welcome! Marianna D'Amato is starting a post-doc in our group.
• October 25, 2024: Welcome! Keisuke Oshimi is starting a post-doc in our group.
• October 14, 2024: Welcome Alejandro! Alejandro Schössel is starting his Bachelor thesis project in our group.
• October 7, 2024: Welcome! Pascal Frehle starts his PhD in our group. Clara Biesgen and Carlos Barriga join our group as student assistants.
• October 1, 2024: Congratulations Sinan! Our team member Sinan Gündoğdu was selected as a fellow of Berlin Quantum with the project "Quantum photonic integrated circuits for information processing".
  
  
  
  
• October 1, 2024: Welcome Clara! We are excited to have Clara Baenz joining us as a master student.
• September 1, 2024: Goodbye Mustafa! We thank Mustafa Gökçe for his valuable contributions to our work as a master and a PhD student and wish all the best to him.
• August 19, 2024: Welcome Nir! We are excited that Prof. Nir Rotenberg is joining our group as a guest researcher for the next six months.
• July 12, 2024: Light connections: Charlotta Gurr receives a prize for best Pitch talk. Title: Monitoring charge dynamics in diamond with MHz acquisition rates. 
• July 1, 2024: Welcome Joseph, welcome Manuel! We are joined by Joseph Pereira and Manuel Vega Artillo through the Humboldt Internship Program this summer.
• June 5, 2024: Tim and the IQP team kick off the JST ASPIRE exchange program of the Germany-Japan quantum technologies partnership program together with Prof. Oliver Benson and our Japanese Partners Prof. Yukata Shikano (Tsukuba University), Prof. Masazumi Fujiwara (Okayama University) and Prof. Takafumi Ono (Kagawa University).
  
  
  
  
• May 31, 2024: Goodbye Tomi! We thank Tomi Nguyen for his valuable contributions to our work as a student assistant and wish all the best for the continuation of his studies.
• May 13, 2024: Welcome Hannaneh! Today Hannaneh Dortaj is starting a six month research internship in our group.
• May 1, 2024: Congratulations Enrico to successfully completing your Master thesis! We thank you for your contributions to our research efforts and wish you all the best for your future!
• April 2, 2024: Welcome Robert! Robert Redlich is starting his Bachelor thesis project in our group.
• March 21, 2024: Congratulations Lea! Our Master student Lea Marlen Rektorschek successfully defended her thesis today. We wish you all the best for your future!
• March 18, 2024: Welcome Max! Max Elias Heimann is starting his Master thesis in our group.
• February 22, 2024: Welcome Tom! Tom Ben Dor is starting his Master thesis in our group.
• February 8, 2024: Congratulations Karl! Our Bachelor student Karl Lübs successfully defended his thesis today. Thank you for your contribution and all the best for your future endeavours!
• February 6, 2024: Tim is holding his inaugural lecture at the Department of Physics. Congratulations!
  
  
• February 1, 2024: Congratulations Mustafa! After finishing his Master degree in the group, Mustafa Gökçe is starting his PhD.