Biography:Alexander Szameit

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Alexander Szameit
Alexander Szameit (2021).jpg
Born (1979-01-10) January 10, 1979 (age 45)
Halle (Saale), Germany
NationalityGermany
Alma materUniversity of Jena
Known forTopological photonics
Quantum optics
nonlinear optics
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsUniversity of Rostock

Alexander Szameit (born 10 January 1979 in Halle (Saale), Germany) is a German physicist working in experimental solid-state optics.[1]

Biography

Szameit studied physics at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Jena, graduating in 2004.[1] Following that, from 2004 to 2007 he pursued a doctoral degree at the University of Jena, graduating with the highest honor of "summa cum laude".[2] From 2009 he worked at the Technion in Haifa as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Mordechai Segev.[3] In 2011 he returned to the University of Jena as a junior professor and acquired his habilitation in 2015.[4] Since 2016, he is a professor at the University of Rostock, where he leads the Experimental Solid-state Optics group.[1] Since 2022, Szameit also serves on the board of the German Research Foundation's collaborative research center 1477 "LiMatI"[5]

Research

Szameit's work focuses on the investigation of optical wave phenomena in discrete systems.[6][7] As experimental platforms, he utilizes artificial structured media such as arrays of coupled optical waveguides directly inscribed into glass chips by ultrafast laser pulses,[7] or synthetic mesh lattices implemented by time-multiplexed loops of optical fibers.[8] Using these techniques, his research[6] covers a broad range of fields ranging from topological photonics,[9] non-Hermitian[8] and PT-symmetric[10] optical systems, integrated quantum photonics[11] and nonlinear optics[12] to synthetic dimensions[13] and the emulation of relativistic physics[14] in on-chip light-based settings.

Awards and honors

  • 2009: Doctoral prize of the DPG (German Physical Society)[15]
  • 2014: Adolph Lomb Medal of the Optical Society[16]
  • 2015: Rudolf Kaiser award for experimental physics[17]
  • 2017: Alfried Krupp prize of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation[2]
  • 2020: Tomassoni award[18]
  • 2024: Elected as fellow of Optica[19]

Selected publications

  • Rechtsman, Mikael C., Julia M. Zeuner, Yonatan Plotnik, Yaakov Lumer, Daniel Podolsky, Felix Dreisow, Stefan Nolte, Mordechai Segev, and Alexander Szameit. "Photonic Floquet topological insulators." Nature 496, no. 7444 (2013): 196–200.
  • Weimann, Steffen, Manuel Kremer, Yonatan Plotnik, Yaakov Lumer, Stefan Nolte, Konstantinos G. Makris, Mordechai Segev, Mikael C. Rechtsman, and Alexander Szameit. "Topologically protected bound states in photonic parity–time-symmetric crystals." Nature materials 16, no. 4 (2017): 433–438.
  • Tillmann, Max, Borivoje Dakić, René Heilmann, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit, and Philip Walther. "Experimental boson sampling." Nature photonics 7, no. 7 (2013): 540–544.
  • Zeuner, Julia M., Mikael C. Rechtsman, Yonatan Plotnik, Yaakov Lumer, Stefan Nolte, Mark S. Rudner, Mordechai Segev, and Alexander Szameit. "Observation of a topological transition in the bulk of a non-Hermitian system." Physical review letters 115, no. 4 (2015): 040402.
  • Szameit, Alexander, and Stefan Nolte. "Discrete optics in femtosecond-laser-written photonic structures." Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 43, no. 16 (2010): 163001.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rostock, Universitätsbibliothek. "Szameit, Alexander - JSPDocportal Sample". http://cpr.uni-rostock.de//resolve/id/cpr_person_00003647. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Alexander Szameit erhält Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis für junge Hochschullehrer 2017". https://www.krupp-stiftung.de/presse/alexander-szamit-erhaelt-alfried-krupp-foerderpreis-fuer-junge-hochschullehrer-2017/. 
  3. ↑ "Students, Post-docs and Group Alumni". https://phsites.technion.ac.il/msegev/students/. 
  4. ↑ "Habilitation announcement of FSU Jena". https://www.physik.uni-jena.de/en/research/junior-scientists/habilitation/2015-completed-habilitation-procedures/jun-prof-dr-alexander-szameit. 
  5. ↑ "Homepage of the CRC 1477 Light-Matter Interactions at Interfaces". https://www.limati.uni-rostock.de/en/team/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Startseite - Experimentelle Festkörperoptik - Universität Rostock". https://www.optics.physik.uni-rostock.de/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Szameit, Alexander; Nolte, Stefan (2010). "Discrete optics in femtosecond-laser-written photonic structures". Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 43 (16): 163001. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/43/16/163001. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Weidemann, Sebastian; Kremer, Mark; Longhi, Stefano; Szameit, Alexander (2022). "Topological triple phase transition in non-Hermitian Floquet quasicrystals". Nature 601 (7893): 354–359. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04253-0. PMID 35046602. Bibcode: 2022Natur.601..354W. 
  9. ↑ Price, Hannah; Chong, Yidong; Khanikaev, Alexander; Schomerus, Henning; Maczewsky, Lukas J.; Kremer, Mark; Heinrich, Matthias; Szameit, Alexander et al. (2022). "Roadmap on topological photonics". Journal of Physics: Photonics 4 (3): 032501. doi:10.1088/2515-7647/ac4ee4. Bibcode: 2022JPhP....4c2501P. 
  10. ↑ Kremer, Mark; Biesenthal, Tobias; Maczewsky, Lukas J.; Heinrich, Matthias; Thomale, Ronny; Szameit, Alexander (2019). "Demonstration of a two-dimensional PT-symmetric crystal". Nature Communications 10 (1): 435. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08104-x. PMID 30683867. Bibcode: 2019NatCo..10..435K. 
  11. ↑ Ehrhardt, Max; Heinrich, Matthias; Szameit, Alexander (2022). "Observation-dependent suppression and enhancement of two-photon coincidences by tailored losses". Nature Physics 16 (3): 191–195. doi:10.1038/s41566-021-00943-3. Bibcode: 2022NaPho..16..191E. 
  12. ↑ Maczewsky, Lukas J.; Heinrich, Matthias; Kremer, Mark; Ivanov, Sergey K.; Ehrhardt, Max; Martinez, Franklin; Kartashov, Yaroslav V.; Konotop, Vladimir V. et al. (2020). "Nonlinearity-induced photonic topological insulator". Science 370 (6517): 701–704. doi:10.1126/science.abd2033. PMID 33154138. Bibcode: 2020Sci...370..701M. 
  13. ↑ Lustig, Eran; Weimann, Steffen; Plotnik, Yonatan; Lumer, Yaakov; Bandres, Miguel; Szameit, Alexander; Segev, Mordechai (2019). "Photonic topological insulator in synthetic dimensions". Nature 567 (7748): 356–360. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-0943-7. PMID 30778196. Bibcode: 2019Natur.567..356L. 
  14. ↑ Dreisow, Felix; Heinrich, Matthias; Keil, Robert; Tuennermann, Andreas; Nolte, Stefan; Longhi, Stefano; Szameit, Alexander (2010). "Classical Simulation of Relativistic Zitterbewegung in Photonic Lattices". Physical Review Letters 105 (14): 143902. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.143902. PMID 21230830. Bibcode: 2010PhRvL.105n3902D. 
  15. ↑ Awardees of the doctoral prize of the DPG, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
  16. ↑ Adolph Lomb Medal, Optica
  17. ↑ Rudolf Kaiser award for Szameit, Deutsches Stiftungszentrum
  18. ↑ Tomassoni Chisesi Prize, Sapienza Università di Roma
  19. ↑ Optica Elected Fellows, Optica



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