August 2025
August 2025
Jakov gave his first talk at the SPS/OPG conference in Vienna. You can read about it in Jakov's paper on arXiv.
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November 2024
November 2024
Our paper on magneto-optical response of EuCd2X2 (with X=P, As, Sb) was published in Physical Review B as a Letter.
This paper shows a beautiful trend of tuning the band gaps in magnetic field with composition.
Congratulations, Serena!
October 2024
October 2024
Jakov Budić joined as a new PhD student. Welcome, Jakov!
August 2024
August 2024
The Light Fermion Spectroscopy group is now based at the University of Zagreb. We welcome visitors of all ages.
May 2024
May 2024
Ana helped organize the International Conference on Reproducibility in Condensed Matter Physics.
We made a documentary: Reproducibility in condensed matter physics
along with a few separate interviews:
Brian Skinner (Ohio State University)
Jessica Thomas (American Physical Society)
Karl Ziemelis (Nature Magazine)
January 2024
January 2024
Our paper on TlBiSSe was one of top 10 most downloaded PRB papers in 2023!
This work also got a nice synopsis in Physics magazine.
Read it here.
November 2023
November 2023
Hot off the press: Our paper on EuCd2As2 is published in Physical Review Letters.
It got a bit of attention, too:
November 2023
November 2023
Ana was interviewed for Alma & Georges. The interview is in French, and talks mostly about our upcoming project "Scientist Demystified". Read it here!
July 2023
July 2023
Our group is a bit bigger for the summer! We are joined by Jamie Barret and Will Galloway, both from Cambridge University. Jamie and Will are working as summer interns. Our collaborator Zoran Rukelj is visiting us from the University of Zagreb.
June 2023
June 2023
Ana was awarded the Ludwig Genzel prize "for her exceptional contributions to the physics of quantum materials obtained via infrared spectroscopy in high magnetic fields and at high pressures".
June – September 2022
June – September 2022
Megan Loh spends a summer with us working as a summer intern.
It was a great experience for us.
June 2022
June 2022
Olivier Papaux defended his MSc thesis.
Congratulations, Olivier!
June 2022
June 2022
Florian Le Mardelé defended his PhD thesis, with flying colors.
Warmest congratulations to Flo!
May 2022
May 2022
Jan Wyzula joins us as a postdoc within our MARVEL Agility project. Welcome, Jan!
February 2022
February 2022
Hot off the press: David's paper on Weyl cones in TaAs is published as a Letter in Physical Review B.
September 2021
September 2021
Two PhD students are visiting our group: Priyanka Reddy and Óscar Toledano. Welcome!
March 2021
March 2021
Two Master project students are joining our group: Olivier Papaux, and Ioannis Laspas. Welcome!
January 2021
January 2021
Mario Novak will spend six months with us, through an SNSF Scientific Exchange grant. Welcome, Mario!
October 2020
October 2020
Edoardo's PhD thesis is awarded the EPFL Physics Doctoral Thesis Award 2020! Congratulations!
You can watch his public defense on youtube: https://youtu.be/-X9a0piFJkk
October 2020
October 2020
We are looking for a new PhD student! Please contact Ana for more details.
September 2020
September 2020
Naveen is visiting us for a week, from Vienna TU. He's investigating novel possible superconductors!
And cows.
August 2020
August 2020
Congratulations to David, who got funding for his Spark project! David wants to tune Dirac materials by electrostatic doping.
September 2020
September 2020
Hot off the press: Zoran's paper on distinguishing the true ground state of ZrTe5 is published in Physical Review B.
August 2020
August 2020
Hot off the press: Edoardo's paper on transforming ZrS2 and ZrSe2 with high pressure is published in ASC Materials Letters.
July 2020
July 2020
Back to Grenoble! Magnetic fields now require face masks.
6.07.2020
6.07.2020
Hot off the press: Florian's paper on the optical properties of a Weyl semimetal TaIrTe4 is published in Physical Review B.
11.05.2020
11.05.2020
Hot off the press: Edoardo's paper on metallic out-of-plane conductivity in 1T-TaS2 is published in npj 2D Materials and Applications.
28.04.2020
28.04.2020
Hot off the press: Our paper on magneto-optical understanding of TaP is published in Physical Review Letters.
March 2020
March 2020
Ana gwas awarded an NCCR MARVEL Agility Grant!
The grant will pay for a new PhD student, to work on magnetic topological systems.
20.03.2020
20.03.2020
Hot off the press: our paper on intraband physics of ZrTe5 is published in Physical Review B.
Photo: tiramisu made by David and Ornella.
10.02.2020
10.02.2020
Hot off the press: our paper on low-energy excitations in type-II Weyl semimetal Td−MoTe2 is published in Physical Review Materials.
12.02.2020
12.02.2020
Hot off the press: our collaboration on lead-bromide perovskites is published in Nature Communications. Here's how EPFL covered this!
September 2019
September 2019
Zoran Rukelj joins our group as a postdoc. Welcome Zoran!
July 2019
July 2019
Our group member spends a week in the company of Nobel Laureates in Lindau! Edo is photographed with J. Michael Kosterlitz, one of the recepients of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter."
June 2019
June 2019
An interview with Ana is published in MaNEP newsletter.
29.05.2019
29.05.2019
Hot off the press: our paper on low-energy band dispersion in ZrTe5 is published in Physical Review Letters.
8.04.–12.04.2019
8.04.–12.04.2019
Ana taught an intensive course on "Shining light on quantum materials: lessons from optical spectroscopy" at the 42nd Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days.
8.04.–14.04.2019
8.04.–14.04.2019
Edo, David, and Florian spent a week at the beamtime in Soleil, working with a broad array of techniques and a large group of physicists, chemists and biologists.
February – May 2019
February – May 2019
Our theory collaborator Zoran Rukelj spends three months in our group, working on theory behind the optical conductivity of Dirac semimetals.
January 2019
January 2019
Edoardo, Shai, Florian and Ana, who was a part of the program committee, participated in the Saas Fee winter school which focused on symmetry and topology in condensed matter.
07.11.2018
07.11.2018
A few questions to Prof. Ana Akrap, interview with a new professor at University of Fribourg.
26.10.2018
26.10.2018
Florian and David presented their research at the FriMat Day, giving talks in front of a very broad audience of material scientists.
24.10.2018
24.10.2018
Ana gave an invited talk at the Symposium of the CPT Section and Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg, at the Harnack Haus in Berlin.
She had the fortune to meet the famous Steven Pinker.
11–16.10.2018
11–16.10.2018
Quite a crowd observing cyclotron resonances in 30 Tesla. We're uncovering the exciting physics of Weyl semimetals.
01.10.2018
01.10.2018
Our collaborator Dr. Zoran Rukelj stayed with our group in Fribourg for a week. Zoran worked on exploring the optical signatures of conical bands.
22.9.2018
22.9.2018
Florian, Ana and David took part in Explora, an outreach activity of the University. We had fun exploring sound waves with some very young researchers!
29–31.08.2018
29–31.08.2018
Our group is at the Swiss workshop on Materials. Edoardo gave a talk on ZrTe5, David presented a poster on Weyl semimetal TaAs, and Florian presented a poster on TaIrTe4.
22–27.07.2018
22–27.07.2018
Ana gave an invited talk on Magneto-optics of 3D Dirac semimetals, at the 23rd International Conference on High Magnetic Fields in Semiconductor Physics, in Toulouse, France
13.07.2018
13.07.2018
Group trip to the mountains near Schwarzsee.
01.07.2018
01.07.2018
Welcome to Shai Ben David (PhD student). Shai will be investigating topological crystalline insulators.
17.-22.06.2018
17.-22.06.2018
Edoardo and Ana are at the conference "From Solid State to Biophysics". The image shows an artistic view of Ana's invited talk on three-dimensional Dirac semimetals.
05.-10.06.2018
05.-10.06.2018
Florian and Edoardo are measuring high-pressure transmission in transition metal dichalcogenides.
05.04.2018
05.04.2018
We are going to 34 Tesla!
High magnetic fields allow us to uncover the band structure and excitations in Weyl semimetals.
26.03.2018
26.03.2018
Hot off the press: Our paper about the energy scale or Dirac electrons in Cd3As2 is published in Physical Review B.
22.03.2018
22.03.2018
Hot off the press: our paper on inhomogeneous charge distribution in candidate Dirac material Cd3As2 is published in Physical Review B.
05.02.2018
05.02.2018
We are at the SMIS beamline of synctrotron Soleil, doing high pressure optical spectroscopy.
01.02.2018
01.02.2018
Welcome to Florian Le Mardelé (PhD student). Florian will be investigating nodal Dirac semimetals, and Weyl semimetals.
15.01.2018
15.01.2018
Welcome to David Santos-Cottin (postdoc). David will be working on the optical and magneto-optical properties of Weyl semimetals.
01.01.2018
01.01.2018
Our group starts at the Department of Physics at the University of Fribourg.
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