🚀 New research from @MPSD shows that a 90° twist of rectangular 2D materials creates tunable square-lattice moiré systems — a powerful new platform for quantum simulation and correlated electron physics! Read more on our Website: www.mpsd.mpg.de/1116749/2025...

🚀 Ultrafast light meets quantum matter: Light can make atoms twist and untwist moiré patterns in 2D materials — not random heat, but coherent motion! Breakthrough reshapes what we thought possible now published in @nature.com: www.mpsd.mpg.de/1114810/2025...

We’re delighted that Sam Holt, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow with us, received the Young Researcher Award at TMAG 2025 in Bari, Italy! 💐 Sam’s work explores novel Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interactions and combining advanced micromagnetic modelling with AI to classify complex magnetic structures.

📢 Wir suchen! Haben Sie Lust, ein international geprägtes Spitzenforschungsinstitut zu unterstützen und eine vielseitige Rolle im Personalwesen zu übernehmen – von Beratung über Personalverwaltung bis Entgeltabrechnung? ⬇️ jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/c...

📢 Wir suchen! Haben Sie Lust, ein international führendes Forschungsumfeld zu unterstützen, Förderprojekte strategisch zu begleiten und als zentrale Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft, Administration und Förderinstitutionen zu wirken? ⬇️ jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/a...

Beeindruckend: Laut @clarivate.com gehören 3 unserer Direktoren – Angel Rubio (Theorie) und Jie Shan & Kin Fai Mak (Nanoskalige Quantenmaterialien) – zu den besten 1% ihrer Fachgebiete, gemessen an der Anzahl der Zitationen! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 💐 www.mpsd.mpg.de/1103964/2025... #HighlyCited2025

According to @clarivate.com, 3 of our directors — Angel Rubio (Theory) and Jie Shan & Kin Fai Mak (Nanoscale Quantum Materials) — rank among the top 1% by citations in their field and are therefore Highly Cited Researchers 2025! Congratulations! 💐 www.mpsd.mpg.de/1103750/2025... #HighlyCited2025

Andrea Cavalleri, Gründungsdirektor des MPSD, wird von der DPG für seine bahnbrechende Arbeit im Bereich der lichtgesteuerten Kontrolle von Quantenmaterialien mit der renommierten Stern-Gerlach-Medaille ausgezeichnet. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉 www.mpsd.mpg.de/1104179/2025...

Great news: Andrea Cavalleri, founding director of the MPSD, will be awarded the prestigious Stern‑Gerlach Medal by the German Physical Society (DPG) in recognition of his groundbreaking work in light-driven control of quantum materials. Congratulations! 🎉 www.mpsd.mpg.de/1103632/2025...

Die DPG ehrt 2026 herausragende Wissenschaftler:innen, darunter: 🎖️ Max-Planck-Medaille: Kurt Kremer (@mpip-mainz.mpg.de) 🎖️ Stern-Gerlach-Medaille: Andrea Cavalleri (@mpsdhamburg.bsky.social/@ox.ac.uk) Zusätzlich wurden weitere renommierte Preise verliehen: www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli... /SE

🚀 Durchbruch! In sternförmigen Kagome-Kristallen bewegen sich Elektronen nicht nur – sie singen auch gemeinsam! Eine neue Studie von MPSD-Wissenschaftlern & Kollaborateuren in @nature.com zeigt, wie Geometrie das Quantenverhalten beeinflusst. Weiterlesen 👉 www.mpsd.mpg.de/1101386/2025...

🚀 Breakthrough alert! In star-shaped Kagome crystals, electrons don’t just move — they sing together! A new @nature.com study from MPSD scientists & collaborators shows how geometry shapes quantum behavior. 🎶 Curious how a crystal’s form can tune electrons? Read 👉 www.mpsd.mpg.de/1101253/2025...

Wir freuen uns, dass unser Dachgarten den "Hamburger Preis für Grüne Bauten" gewonnen hat! 🌱🥇 Es gibt auch eine kostenlose Ausstellung. Mehr dazu in unserer Meldung: www.mpsd.mpg.de/1097247/2025...

We are delighted that our roof garden has won the “Hamburg Award for Green Buildings”! 🌱🥇 There is also a free exhibition. Read more about it in our news: www.mpsd.mpg.de/1097017/2025...

📢 Want a PhD in Ultrafast Science and Quantum Materials? 🎓 Our PhD school IMPRS UFAST is offering 29 PhD projects starting in summer/autumn 2026! Apply by November 6. jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/9...

📢 You're aiming to push the limits of state of the art nanofabrication? We're looking for a Clean room Engineer (m/f/d) 🥼 to support the common clean-room activities & coordinate the device fabrication of non-standard materials into hybrid devices between our partners! jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/d...

📢 Wir suchen eine*n erfahrene*n Einkäufer*in 🛒 mit Teamfähigkeit, Kommunikationsvermögen, interkultureller Kompetenz & Verhandlungsgeschick! Wir bieten: eine abwechslungsreiche Tätigkeit in einem internationalen Forschungsinstitut mit langfristiger Perspektive! jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/2...

New exciting publication in Nature Physics 📢: www.mpsd.mpg.de/1093587/2025... A team of Researchers at MPSD has found a new capability of 2D-quantum materials: they can act as a cavity:

Working in an award-winning building? Our new Institute building has won the Hamburg Prize for Green Buildings 2025 - which also got us featured in the local news🏆(in German) www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se...

Ultrafast memory, powered by light: Researchers at MPSD and the @ox.ac.uk switch ferroaxial states with circularly polarized terahertz pulses — enabling stable, non-volatile data storage beyond ferroelectrics and magnets. ⚡ Just published in @science.org 🚀 dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Cover Story: A recent paper from our theory group has been selected for the cover of the @aip-publishing.bsky.socialAPL Computational Physics Journal 🚀. They showed that four-component relativistic strong cavity-matter interactions can be approximated by an effective theory with two components.

Another job at our institute in Hamburg. 📣 We are looking for a group assistant in one of our research groups! 🚀 jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/3...

📣 We are looking for a skilled Computational Scientist for the software engineering regarding the EU-funded Project "Magnetic Multiscale Modelling Suite (MaMMoS)". Asap! 🚀 jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/3...

📢 Publication Alert 📢 Scientists from our theory group have published a new Study in #scienceadvances that shows that you can predict photon-sideband distributions in certain materials using Symmetry-based Floquet Optical Selection. www.mpsd.mpg.de/1079352/2025... @science.org #physics #maxplanck

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