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MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
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We explore the fundamental make-up of matter with ultrafast light sources and groundbreaking theory. We post in DE & EN

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📢 Wir suchen! Haben Sie Lust, ein international geprägtes Spitzenforschungsinstitut zu unterstützen und eine vielseitige Rolle im Personalwesen zu übernehmen – von Beratung über Personalverwaltung bis Entgeltabrechnung? ⬇️
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November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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📢 Wir suchen! Haben Sie Lust, ein international führendes Forschungsumfeld zu unterstützen, Förderprojekte strategisch zu begleiten und als zentrale Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft, Administration und Förderinstitutionen zu wirken? ⬇️
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November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Beeindruckend: Laut @clarivate.com gehören 3 unserer Direktoren – Angel Rubio (Theorie) und Jie Shan & Kin Fai Mak (Nanoskalige Quantenmaterialien) – zu den besten 1% ihrer Fachgebiete, gemessen an der Anzahl der Zitationen! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 💐
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Drei Direktoren des MPSD als „Highly Cited Researchers 2025” ausgezeichnet
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November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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According to @clarivate.com, 3 of our directors — Angel Rubio (Theory) and Jie Shan & Kin Fai Mak (Nanoscale Quantum Materials) — rank among the top 1% by citations in their field and are therefore Highly Cited Researchers 2025! Congratulations! 💐
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Three MPSD Directors selected as Highly Cited Researchers 2025
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November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Andrea Cavalleri, Gründungsdirektor des MPSD, wird von der DPG für seine bahnbrechende Arbeit im Bereich der lichtgesteuerten Kontrolle von Quantenmaterialien mit der renommierten Stern-Gerlach-Medaille ausgezeichnet. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉
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Andrea Cavalleri erhält die Stern-Gerlach-Medaille
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November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Great news: Andrea Cavalleri, founding director of the MPSD, will be awarded the prestigious Stern‑Gerlach Medal by the German Physical Society (DPG) in recognition of his groundbreaking work in light-driven control of quantum materials. Congratulations! 🎉
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Andrea Cavalleri to be awarded the Stern-Gerlach Medal
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November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Die DPG ehrt 2026 herausragende Wissenschaftler:innen, darunter:
🎖️ Max-Planck-Medaille: Kurt Kremer (@mpip-mainz.mpg.de)
🎖️ Stern-Gerlach-Medaille: Andrea Cavalleri (@mpsdhamburg.bsky.social/@ox.ac.uk)
Zusätzlich wurden weitere renommierte Preise verliehen: www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli... /SE
Herausragende Forschung gewürdigt: DPG ehrt exzellente Physikerinnen und Physiker
Die Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft verleiht ihre höchsten Auszeichnungen, die Max-Planck-Medaille und die Stern-Gerlach-Medaille, sowie weitere Preise für unterschiedliche physikalische Disziplin...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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🚀 Durchbruch! In sternförmigen Kagome-Kristallen bewegen sich Elektronen nicht nur – sie singen auch gemeinsam!
Eine neue Studie von MPSD-Wissenschaftlern & Kollaborateuren in @nature.com zeigt, wie Geometrie das Quantenverhalten beeinflusst. Weiterlesen 👉 www.mpsd.mpg.de/1101386/2025...
Wenn Elektronen harmonisch schwingen – und ihre Umgebung spüren
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October 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🚀 Breakthrough alert! In star-shaped Kagome crystals, electrons don’t just move — they sing together!
A new @nature.com study from MPSD scientists & collaborators shows how geometry shapes quantum behavior.
🎶 Curious how a crystal’s form can tune electrons? Read 👉 www.mpsd.mpg.de/1101253/2025...
When Electrons Sing in Harmony — and Sense the Shape of Their Home
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October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Wir freuen uns, dass unser Dachgarten den "Hamburger Preis für Grüne Bauten" gewonnen hat! 🌱🥇 Es gibt auch eine kostenlose Ausstellung. Mehr dazu in unserer Meldung:
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Das MPSD gewinnt Preis für Grüne Bauten
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October 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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We are delighted that our roof garden has won the “Hamburg Award for Green Buildings”! 🌱🥇 There is also a free exhibition. Read more about it in our news:
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The MPSD wins award for green buildings
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October 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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📢 Want a PhD in Ultrafast Science and Quantum Materials? 🎓 Our PhD school IMPRS UFAST is offering 29 PhD projects starting in summer/autumn 2026! Apply by November 6.
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29 Interdisciplinary PhD positions in Ultrafast Science and Quantum Materials – IMPRS UFAST – Hamburg
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October 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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📢 You're aiming to push the limits of state of the art nanofabrication? We're looking for a Clean room Engineer (m/f/d) 🥼 to support the common clean-room activities & coordinate the device fabrication of non-standard materials into hybrid devices between our partners!
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Clean room Engineer (m/f/d)
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October 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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New exciting publication in Nature Physics 📢:
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A team of Researchers at MPSD has found a new capability of 2D-quantum materials: they can act as a cavity:
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Working in an award-winning building? Our new Institute building has won the Hamburg Prize for Green Buildings 2025 - which also got us featured in the local news🏆(in German)
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Hamburger Preis für grüne Bauten verliehen
Die Umweltbehörde hat Projekte zur Begrünung von Dächern, Fassaden und Innenräumen ausgezeichnet. Insgesamt wurden 39 Projekte eingereicht.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Ultrafast memory, powered by light:
Researchers at MPSD and the @ox.ac.uk switch ferroaxial states with circularly polarized terahertz pulses — enabling stable, non-volatile data storage beyond ferroelectrics and magnets. ⚡
Just published in @science.org 🚀
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Photo-induced nonvolatile rewritable ferroaxial switching
Ultrafast switching of ferroic phases is an active research area with technological potential. Yet, some key challenges remain, ranging from limited speeds in ferromagnets to intrinsic volatility of s...
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October 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Cover Story: A recent paper from our theory group has been selected for the cover of the @aip-publishing.bsky.socialAPL Computational Physics Journal 🚀.
They showed that four-component relativistic strong cavity-matter interactions can be approximated by an effective theory with two components.
Linear-response quantum-electrodynamical density functional theory based on two-component X2C Hamiltonians
Linear-response quantum electrodynamical density functional theory (QEDFT) enables the description of molecular spectra under strong coupling to quantized photo
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October 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Another job at our institute in Hamburg. 📣
We are looking for a group assistant in one of our research groups!
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Administrative Assistenz für den Direktor der Abteilung für Mikrostrukturierte Quantenmaterie (m/w/d)
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October 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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📣 We are looking for a skilled Computational Scientist for the software engineering regarding the EU-funded Project "Magnetic Multiscale Modelling Suite (MaMMoS)". Asap! 🚀
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Computational Scientist (f/m/x) (MaMMoS)
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September 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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📢 Publication Alert 📢
Scientists from our theory group have published a new Study in #scienceadvances that shows that you can predict photon-sideband distributions in certain materials using Symmetry-based Floquet Optical Selection.

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Scientific Graphic from the Paper. It shows Disentangling spectral weight distributions in TrARPES via Floquet optical selection rules. The left panel shows a pump-probe setup in a TrARPES experiment on monolayer black phosphorus (BP), where the AC-polarized (s-pol.) pumping laser (blue) is incident perpendicular to the glide-mirror plane and the ZZ-polarized (p-pol.) probe laser (red) lies within this plane. Group-theoretical analysis of the system’s symmetry yields Floquet optical selection rules that govern the visibility of photon-dressed sidebands. The right panel presents a TDDFT-simulated TrARPES intensity plot along the AC direction of BP, obtained from ejected-electron data, with spectral weight distributions across sidebands of different Floquet indices n reflecting the symmetry constraints.
August 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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We are the MPSD, our Research focusses on the structure and properties of matter down to its atomic and electronic motions on the shortest timescales. ⏳
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