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20 September 2024: Today I was appointed Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Institute of Condensed-Matter Physics at TU Braunschweig.
August 2024: Our work entitled “Metasurface of Strongly Coupled Excitons and Nanoplasmonic Arrays” was published in Nano Letters!
3 June 2024: We had a great one-day workshop on CrSBr at IAS, Garching! A big thanks to all the invited speakers, participants, sponsors, and my amazing co-organizers Nathan Wilson and Florian Dirnberger! #CrSBr2024
June 2024: Our work entitled “Doping-control of excitons and magnetism in few-layer CrSBr” was just published in Nature Communications.
May 2024: Our work entitled “Multimode emission in GaN microdisk lasers” was published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.
March 2024: I was selected to attend the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on physics held in Lindau, Germany from 30/06-05/07/2024.
March 2024: Florian Dirnberger (TU Dresden), Nathan Wilson (TU Munich), and I are organizing a focus workshop on CrSBr on June 3rd 2024 at the IAS in Garching. Abstract deadline is the 31st of March. More details here: https://www.crsbr2024.de/
February 2024: I was awarded the Junior Researcher START Fellowship of the Cluster of Excellence Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) with 300 k€ funding over two years to support my independence as a researcher, allowing me to start my own sub-group within Prof. Alex Högele’s Nanophotonics group at LMU Munich, focussed on 2D magnetic semiconductor CrSBr.
February 2024: Our work entitled “Metasurface of strongly coupled excitons and plasmonic arrays” is now on arXiv.
December 2023: Our work on “Doping-control of excitons and magnetism in few-layer CrSBr” is now on arXiv.
May 2023: Our work on “Lattice reconstruction in MoSe2-WSe2 heterobilayers synthesized by chemical vapor deposition” was published in Nano Letters.
December 2022: Our work on “Lattice reconstruction in MoSe2-WSe2 heterobilayers synthesized by chemical vapor deposition” is now on arXiv.
August 2022: I started my MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship at LMU Munich in Prof. Alex Högele’s group.
March 2022: I was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission. In my project 2DValley I will study opto-valleytronic moiré polaritons. For this project I will continue to stay at LMU Munich in Alex Högele’s group.
March 2022: Article about me in the MCQST Quantum Science Blog: https://www.mcqst.de/outreach-and-media/quantum-science-blog/farsane-tabataba-vakili.html
March 2021: I was awarded an MCQST Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship.
December 2020: I received the Prix de thèse Physique des Ondes et de la Matière (PhOM) of the Graduate School of Physics of Université Paris-Saclay in the optics category.
November 2020: I joined the Nanophotonics Group of Prof. Alex Högele at LMU Munich as a postdoc.
September 2020: I defended my PhD thesis at C2N, Université Paris-Saclay.
September 2020: Our article “Analysis of low-threshold optically pumped III-nitride microdisk lasers” was published in APL.
June 2020: Our article “Monolithic integration of ultraviolet microdisk lasers into photonic circuits in a III-nitride-on-silicon platform” was published in Optics Letters and chosen as Editor’s Pick.
December 2019: Our article “Demonstration of critical coupling in an active III-nitride microdisk photonic circuit on silicon” was published in Scientific Reports.
September 2019: My scanning electron microscope image “Photonic Forest” was chosen as one of 20 images of the CNRS “preuve par l’image” competition.
April 2019: Our article “III-nitride on silicon electrically injected microrings for nanophotonic circuits” was published in Optics Express.
November 2018: I received a Student Award at the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN) 2018 in Kanazawa, Japan.
Photo credit: Carl Diner, Fondation L’Oréal
October 2018: I was one of 30 recipients of the Bourse l’Oréal-UNESCO France 2018 with the aim of promoting careers for women in science. C2N news article.
August 2018: I received a Best Student Poster Award at ICPS 2018 – 34th International conference on the physics of semiconductors in Montpellier, France.
July 2018: Our article “Blue Microlasers Integrated on a Photonic Platform on Silicon” was published in ACS Photonics. C2N published a news story about this article.
Dr. Farsane Tabataba-Vakili 