Group | Juraschek Lab

Current group members

Part of the group at the Dutch Spintronics/Nanomagnetism Meeting in Utrecht, November 2025.

Dominik Maximilian Juraschek, Ph.D.
Group head

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Dominik is the head of the Dynamical Quantum Matter group.

Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Science Education, Eindhoven University of Technology (2024-present)

Senior Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University (2021-2024)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (2019-2021) (Funded by SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship)

Education

Ph.D., Department of Materials, ETH Zurich (2018) (ETH medal for outstanding doctoral thesis)

M.Sc. in Physics, University of Augsburg (2015)

B.Sc. in Physics, University of Augsburg (2012)

Verena Brehm, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher

Verena is a postdoctoral researcher who joined the group in March 2025. She investigates emerging phenomena from phonon angular momentum and spin transport. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and her M.Sc. from the University of Konstanz.

Pooja Rani, M.Tech., M.Sc.
Ph.D. student

Pooja is an applied physics Ph.D. student who joined the group in October 2022. She investigates how coherently driven phonons can be used to modulate magnetic and ferroelectric properties of layered 2D materials. Pooja obtained her M.Tech. from IIT Delhi and her M.Sc. from Chaudhary Devi Lal University.

Carolina Paiva, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student

Office: Shenkar Physics, Room 401 #3

Carolina is a physics Ph.D. student who is working in the group since March 2023, jointly supervised by Prof. Roni Ilan at Tel Aviv University. She investigates how topological systems can be engineered through coherent excitations of the crystal lattice. Carolina obtained her M.Sc. from the University of Lisbon.

Omer Yaniv, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student

Office: Shenkar Physics, Room 401 #3

Omer is a physics Ph.D. student who joined the group in June 2023. He investigates the fundamentals of angular momentum coupling of chiral phonons to electronic spins and orbits. Omer obtained his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences.

Daniel A. Bustamante Lopez, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student

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Daniel is a Ph.D. student at Boston University in the group of Prof. Wanzheng Hu and working on ultrafast pump-probe experiments. He discovered an enthusiasm for theory and is co-advised by the JuraschekLab for theoretical parts of his work.

Yu-Chi Huang, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student

Yu-Chi joined the JuraschekLab as an applied physics Ph.D. student in May 2025. She is working on the fundamentals of chirality and angular momentum transfer. Yu-Chi obtained her M.Sc. from the Institute of Science Tokyo.

Emily Grootkarzijn
B.Sc. student

Emily is doing her Bachelor end project in the group, investigating how circular charge currents in 2D materials produce magnetic fields that can be measured spectroscopically.

Michel Lamers
B.Sc. student

Michel is doing his Bachelor end project in the group, investigating how light-driven spin waves couple nonlinearly in magnetic materials.

Alumni

Tom Kahana, M.Sc.

Tom worked in the group from June 2022 through September 2024 and graduated with a master in physics. He is now a Ph.D. student at the University of Hamburg.

Mike Pols, Ph.D.

Mike worked in the group as a postdoctoral researcher until August 2025, after completing his Ph.D. at TU Eindhoven. He is now a postdoc at ETH Zurich.