Dr. Jan Gerrit Horstmann
Dr. Jan Gerrit Horstmann
Staff of Professorship for Multifunctional Ferroic Materials
ETH Zürich
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Research area
Gerrit Horstmann is currently interested in the observation and control of correlation dynamics in systems with multiple coexisting types of order (electronic, magnetic, structural), with a focus on the impact of microscopic heterogeneity, e.g., domains or domain walls. To this end, he develops novel techniques to image correlation dynamics with high spatial and high temporal resolution.
Gerrit Horstmann received his PhD in Physics from the University of Göttingen in 2021 under the supervision of Professor Claus Ropers. In his dissertation work, he used ultrafast low-energy electron diffraction (ULEED) and ultrafast optical spectroscopy to investigate nonequilibrium structural dynamics in low-dimensional materials. By combining ULEED with timed sequences of femtosecond (1 fs = 10-15 s) light pulses, he and his co-workers demonstrated the coherent control of phase transitions in solids by manipulating the amplitudes of key phonon modes. Gerrit joined the Laboratory for Multifunctional Ferroic Materials in October 2022.
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2023 | SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 2022 | ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 2022 | Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (declined) |
| 2021 | Born-Franck-Dissertation award of the University of Göttingen, funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation |
| 2018 | ECOSS Prize at the ECOSS-34 conference, Aarhus, Denmark |
| 2016 | Special prize of the foundation board of the University of Göttingen |
| 2016 | “Wissenschaftspreis Niedersachsen” in the category “students” |
| 2010 | Scholarship of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” |