Absorption, scattering, and emission spectroscopy or time-resolved emission spectroscopy - you name it!

Dynamic self-assembly is a novel approach to construct functional structures from building blocks across dimensional ranges. I contribute to the fundamental understanding of its dynamics as well as to the applications.

Luminescent ratiometric nanothermometry uses the Boltzmann distribution of the population of two adjacent, thermally coupled energy levels of lanthanides integrated in nanocrystals. This reasearch field is quite young but promises to answer fundamental questions in science such as: What are the mechanisms of heat transfer at the nanoscale?

Computational methods to numerically investigate active (nano-)materials or passive photonic structures.