Physicist, Sub-Group Leader at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München
I am currently a sub-group leader in the Nanophotonics Group of Prof. Alexander Högele at LMU Munich. I have received a Junior Researcher START Fellowship from the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) in 2024, a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission in 2022, and a Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship from the MCQST in 2021.
My current research focus is on excitons and polaritons in 2D magnetic semiconductor CrSBr and semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We use cleanroom nanofabrication to make van der Waals heterostructures and then study them by magneto-optical spectroscopy at cryogenic temperatures.
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Email: f.tabataba@physik.uni-muenchen.de
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About me
I am Farsane Tabataba-Vakili, a sub-group leader in the Nanophotonics group of Prof. Alexander Högele at LMU Munich. My current research interests focus on light-matter interaction in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and CrSBr at low temperature. My postdoc projects over the past three years included the study of interlayer excitons in reconstructed MoSe2-WSe2 heterobilayers, metasurfaces with excitons in WSe2 strongly coupled to plasmonic arrays, and doping-control of excitons and magnetism in few-layer CrSBr. I have received three postdoctoral fellowships in my time at LMU: the Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship from the MCQST in 2021, the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission in 2022, and the Junior Researcher START Fellowship from the MCQST in 2024. I am now starting a sub-group focussed on CrSBr within the framework of my START Fellowship.
I am originally from Berlin where I received my B.Sc. (2013) and M.Sc. (2016) degrees in physics at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin). During my M.Sc., I spent one and a half years at PARC, a Xerox Company in Palo Alto, CA as an intern and working on my master’s thesis, investigating electron-beam pumped ultraviolet-C (UV-C) emitters and UV-A laser diodes. From 2016 to 2020, I was a PhD candidate at the Centre de Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies (C2N) in Palaiseau and at CEA-IRIG in Grenoble under the supervison of Dr. Philippe Boucaud and Dr. Bruno Gayral where I worked on UV-A and visible microlaser photonic circuits in the III-nitride on silicon platform. I obtained my PhD in physics from Université Paris-Saclay in September 2020.
I have received several prizes during my M.Sc. and PhD, including the 2018 Bourse L’Oréal-UNESCO for women in science and the 2017 Physik-Studienpreis from the Berlin Physics Society.
In my free time, I am passionate about scuba diving (check out my dive videos here), traveling, and acrylic painting.
CV 04/2024
Dr. Farsane Tabataba-Vakili 