Carlos Maciel successfully defended his thesis last Friday, February 9th, on the probing of nanoscale light-matter interactions with fast electrons and near-field optical probes. Zorionak Carlos! Congratulations!

Unai Muniain successfully defended his thesis on November 8th on the quantum-mechanical study of optical excitations in nanoscale systems: first-principles description of plasmons, tunneling-induced light emission and ultrastrong light-matter interaction. Zorionak Unai! Congratulations!

We are happy to announce that Javier Aizpurua has been elected as 2023 American Physical Society Fellow, after recommendation by the Division of Chemical Physics (https://dipc.ehu.eus/en/whats-new/news/adolfo-del-campo-and-javier-elected-as-american-physical-society-fellows-2023). Congratulations Javier! Zorionak!

Nikos Iliopoulos joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2020 he finished his PhD at the University of Patras, where he also worked as a postdoctoral researcher for 3 years. During his studies he carried out theoretical studies about … Continue reading →

Aurelian joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher. He just defended his PhD thesis at the Université Paris-Saclay in France, during which he developed new theoretical methods to model light emission by ensembles of thermalized emitters in a resonator. Welcome … Continue reading →

Our group has recently published a paper on the giant optomechanical spring effect in plasmonic nano- and picocavities probed by surface-enhanced Raman scattering. The extreme confinement provided by plasmonic nano- and pico-cavities enhances the optomechanical coupling to access a very … Continue reading →

Alvaro Nodar successfully defended his thesis on the theoretical description of light emission in the presence of nanoscale resonators last Friday, May 19th, in front of the jury. Zorionak Alvaro! Congratulations!

The twenty-seventh edition of the prestigious award “Premio Euskadi de Investigación 2022” has been awarded unanimously  to Javier Aizpurua,  the leader of the Theory of Nanophotonics Group in the Centro de Física de Materiales in San Sebastián (https://www.irekia.euskadi.eus/es/news/85385-fisico-javier-aizpurua-premio-euskadi-investigacion-2022). The purpose of the “Premio … Continue reading →

Isabel obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Granada (UGR). Last September, he finished his Master’s degree in Nanoscience at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) , where she carried out a theoretical study of infrared … Continue reading →

Last Friday, Antton Babaze successfully defended his thesis on “Quantum Many-Body Effects in the Optoelectronic Response of Plasmonic Nanostructures and their Coupling to Quantum Emitters” in front of the international committee. Zorionak Antton! Congratulations!