The Juraschek Laboratory
for Dynamical Quantum Matter
Current group members
Dominik Maximilian Juraschek, Ph.D.
Group head
Email | Google scholar profile | Faculty profile
Phone: +972 (0) 3 640 8682
Office: Shenkar Physics, Room 409a
Dominik is a Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor (tenure-track) for Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy
at Tel Aviv University.
Appointments
Senior Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University (10/2021-present)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (2019-2021) (Funded by SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship)
Education
Ph.D., Department of Materials, ETH Zurich (2018) (ETH medal for outstanding doctoral thesis)
M.Sc. in Physics, University of Augsburg (2015)
B.Sc. in Physics, University of Augsburg (2012)
Pooja Rani, M.Tech., M.Sc.
Ph.D. student
Office: Shenkar Physics, Room 401 #3
Pooja is a physics Ph.D. student who joined the group in October 2022. She investigates how coherently driven phonons can be used to modulate magnetic and ferroelectric properties of layered 2D materials. Pooja obtained her M.Tech. from IIT Delhi and her M.Sc. from Chaudhary Devi Lal University.
Carolina Paiva, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student
Office: Shenkar Physics, Room 401 #3
Carolina is a physics Ph.D. student who is working in the group since March 2023, jointly supervised by Prof. Roni Ilan. She investigates how topological systems can be engineered through coherent excitations of the crystal lattice. Carolina obtained her M.Sc. from the University of Lisbon.
Omer Yaniv, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student
Office: Shenkar Physics, Room 401 #3
Omer is a physics Ph.D. student who joined the group in June 2023. He investigates the fundamentals of angular momentum coupling of chiral phonons to electronic spins and orbits. Omer obtained his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences.
Tom Kahana, B.Sc.
M.Sc. student
Office: Shenkar Physics, Room 401 #3
Tom is a physics master student and joined the group in June 2022. He investigates how optically driven circularly polarized (chiral) phonons produce effective magnetic fields in crystalline solids, using a combination of phenomenological modeling and first-principles calculations. Tom obtained his B.Sc. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Daniel A. Bustamante Lopez, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student
Email | Boston University profile | Hu Lab website
Daniel is a Ph.D. student at Boston University in the group of Prof. Wanzheng Hu and working on ultrafast pump-probe experiments. He discovered an enthusiasm for theory and is co-advised by the JuraschekLab for theoretical parts of his work.