Group | Juraschek Lab

Current group members

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-present)

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.

Mike Pols, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher

Mike is a postdoctoral researcher who joined the group in April 2025. He utilizes machine-learning tools to investigate nonlinear lattice and spin dynamics. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the Eindhoven University of Technology.

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 will be joining the JuraschekLab as an applied physics Ph.D. student in May 2025. She will be working on chirality-induced ultrafast and transport phenomena. Yu-Chi obtained her M.Sc. from the Institute of Science Tokyo.

Alumni

Tom Kahana, M.Sc.

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