The Juraschek Laboratory
for Dynamical Quantum Matter
Current group members
Dutch Spintronics Meeting in Utrecht, November 2025.
Visit in Switzerland, May 2026
Dominik Maximilian Juraschek, PhD
Group head
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Dominik is the head of the Dynamical Quantum Matter group.
Appointments
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Professor, Department Physics, University of Fribourg (2026-now)
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Group leader, Laboratory for Theoretical and Computational Physics, Paul Scherrer Institute (2026-now)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Science Education, Eindhoven University of Technology (2024-2026)
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Senior Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University (2021-2024)
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Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (2019-2021) (SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship)
Education
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PhD, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich (2018) (ETH medal)
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MSc in Physics, University of Augsburg (2015)
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BSc in Physics, University of Augsburg (2012)
Verena Brehm, PhD
Postdoc (TU Eindhoven)
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 PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and her MSc from the University of Konstanz.
Daniel A. Bustamante Lopez, MSc
Postdoc (University of Fribourg)
Daniel is a postdoctoral researcher who joined the group already while completing his PhD at Boston University. He has a background in ultrafast pump-probe experiments, but discovered an enthusiasm for theory and is now working on transport of chiral phonons.
Pooja Rani, M.Tech., MSc
Ph.D. student (TU Eindhoven)
Pooja is a Ph.D. student who joined the group in October 2022. She investigates how coherently driven phonons can be used to modulate ferroelectric properties of layered 2D materials. Pooja obtained her MTech from IIT Delhi and her MSc from Chaudhary Devi Lal University.
Carolina Paiva, MSc
Ph.D. student (Tel Aviv University)
Carolina is a 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 MSc from the University of Lisbon.
Omer Yaniv, MSc
Ph.D. student (Tel Aviv University)
Omer is a physics PhD student who joined the group in June 2023. He investigates how phonon polaritons can be manipulated with terahertz cavities. Omer obtained his MSc from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences.
Yu-Chi Huang, MSc
Ph.D. student (TU Eindhoven)
Yu-Chi joined the JuraschekLab as an applied physics PhD student in May 2025. She is working on the fundamentals of chirality and angular momentum transfer. Yu-Chi obtained her MSc from the Institute of Science Tokyo.
Jolijn Dellevoet, MSc
Ph.D. student (TU Eindhoven)
Jolijn joined the group as a PhD student in December 2025. She is working on ultrafast control of unconventional orders, including chirality and ferroaxiality. Jolijn obtained her MSc from TU Eindhoven.
Alumni
Tom Kahana, MSc
Master student, 06/2022-09/2024 at Tel Aviv University
Now: PhD student at University of Hamburg
