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Dr. Meike Kuhn: Graduating our third OPTEXC PhD! The festive season is upon us (almost)! We are delighted to see Meike Kuhn graduate as our third OPTEXC joint PhD student with Chris McNeill from Monash University and Eva M. Herzig from Universität Bayreuth as her supervisors! It has been a joy to have her as […]

IRTG Annual Meeting Gößweinstein 2025 From October 28 to October 30, 2025, the OPTEXC hybrid fall meeting took place in the picturesque landscape of Gößweinstein in Franconian Switzerland. The IRTG PIs, Early Career Researchers, and management team from the University of Bayreuth came together for three days of presentations, training, mentoring, and networking, all centered […]

Summertime networking at OPTEXC headquarters: On July 23 and 24, 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Smith for project and supervision meetings with our joint PhD students and alumni. It was great to catch up with him and discuss running programmes as well as future collaboration opportunities. After lab tours and research workshops […]

Australian Talks at UBT: What a busy Aussie week it’s been at OPTEXC headquarters – Udo Bach from Monash University, David Jones from University of Melbourne, and Lukas Zeininger (U of Melbourne from August 2025) visited the University of Bayreuth! Udo and David gave engaging talks while Lukas met with Bayreuth peers to prep upcoming […]

Lab Tour at EP III: Time for another Lab Tour: Simon Durst of EPIII is showing his fellow students of OPTEXC his optical setup for measuring the 2D spectra of single molecules.

Lab Tour at EP VIII: Another Lab Tour at EPVIII, guided by Fabian Brütting. He explains the set-up of ultrafast spectroscopy including the strong terahertz source that allows controlling excitons in semiconductor nanomaterials on sub-picosecond timescales.

Lab Tour at PC I: Our next lab tour at PCI, Physical Chemistry, Polymers and Colloids for Sustainable Materials and Technologies – Retsch group, headed by Maximilian Theis: The CrESP process allows for the synthesis of nanozised silica particles with a gradual change in size.

Dr. Andreas Erhardt: Congratulations on Doctoral Degree! Celebrating Our First PhD Graduation!We are thrilled to announce a wonderful milestone for the OPTEXC community: the successful completion of the first doctoral degree within our International Research Training Group! Congratulations, Dr. Andi Erhardt!A dedicated member of the OPTEXC PhD program, Andi has officially earned his PhD from […]

IRTG Annual Meeting Thurnau 2023: From June 12 to 14, 2023, the inaugural OPTEXC networking event brought together researchers from the University of Bayreuth, the University of Melbourne and Monash University – key partners within the IRTG consortium – for three days of networking and collaboration. Held in a hybrid format, the event marked a […]

Together with two Australian partner universities, the University of Melbourne and Monash University, the University of Bayreuth is establishing a new International Research Training Group (IRTG) in the field of semiconductor research. The graduate school will start in spring 2023 and will be funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) for an initial period of […]