People

The Team

Optospintronics BBQ – Summer 2026

Principal Investigator

Marcos H. D. Guimaraes

Associate Professor

Postdoctoral Researchers

Kurea Nakagawa

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD Students

Cedric Cordero Silis

PhD student

Rixt Bosma

PhD student

Teresa Lopez Carrasco

PhD student

Georgios Stylianou

PhD student

Vitor de Melo Almada

PhD student

Torben S. Pfeifer

PhD student

Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers

Daniel Vaquero (2024-2026), Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow at ICMM, ES
Samer Kurdi
  (2024-2025), Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University, UK.

PhD Students

Aaron Mendoza (2019-2024), Postdoc researcher at the Univ. of Groningen, NL
Anna Marx (2019-2024), Software Engineer at Resato Hydrogen Technology, NL.
Adam J. Watson (2019-2023), Lithography System Engineer at ASML, NL
Freddie Hendriks (2019-2023), Software Developer at Lambert Instruments, NL.
Rafael Rojas-Lopez (2018-2023), Postdoc researcher at TU Dortmund, DE.
Jan Hidding (2018-2023), Postdoc researcher at TU Denmark, DK.

Master Students

Patrick Kormendy (Applied Physics – 2025/2026)
Torben Pfeifer
(Physics – 2024/2025)
Stella Arvaniti
(Physics- 2022/2023)
Rixt Bosma (Nanoscience – 2022/2023)
Kostas Panagiotis Rampotis
(Nanoscience – 2023)
Harshan Madeshwaran
(Nanoscience – 2023)
Cédric Cordero
(Nanoscience – 2021/2022)
Qianshan Feng (Nanoscience – 2022)
Vishesh Saxena (Nanoscience – 2020/2021)
Pieter Brongers (Nanoscience – 2021)
Sytze Tirion (Applied Physics – 2019-2020)

Bachelor Students

Lakshya Awatramani (Honours College Physics – 2025)
Rindert Walinga
(Honours College Physics – 2025)
Leo Clerici (Applied Physics – 2024/2025)
Gabriel Platzer
(Applied Physics – 2024/2025)
Yusei Nozaki
(Physics – 2024/2025)
Floris Labohm
(Applied Physics – 2024/2025)
Martijn Takens
(Applied Physics – 2024/2025)
Charlotte Broekmeulen
(Applied Physics – 2024)
Julian Bernat
(Applied Physics – 2024)
Igor Denz
(Honours College Applied Physics – 2024)
Marcus Kanestrom
(Physics – 2023/2024)
Hamza Reedy (Applied Physics – 2023/2024)
Patrick Kormendy (Applied Physics – 2022/2023)
Anders Rasmussen (Physics – 2022/2023)
Ilija Gjerapic
(Honors College Applied Physics – 2022)
Rixt Bosma (Applied Physics – 2021)
Thomas Dam (Physics – 2021)
Klaiv Mertiri (Physics – 2021)