Jun. Prof. Dr. Nicholas Güsken

Quantumphotonics & Optoelectronics

Contact and Affiliations

Office Address:
Pohlweg 47-49
33098 Paderborn
Room:
P8.3.11
Quantumphotonics & Optoelectronics
Junior Professor
Office Address:
Pohlweg 47-49
33098 Paderborn
Room:
P8.3.11

About Nicholas Güsken

Curriculum Vitae

2025: Tenure Track assistant Professor (W1)

Physics Department Uni Paderborn, 
Centre for Optoelectronics & Photonics (CEOPP), 
Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQs)

2021 - 2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Stanford University, CA, USA

2020 - 2021: Lead RnD Engineer & Scientist

Polariton Technologies c/o ETH Zurich

2017 - 2020: PhD

Imperial College London, London, UK

01.07.2025: Wübbenstiftung Wissenschaft - 1.2 mio. €

In den Medien

02.06.2025: Member of the "Junge Akademie" of the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina

2025: NRW-Returning Scholar Programm - 1.25 mio. €

Details

In the news

2021 - 2023: Leopoldina Postdoctoral Fellowship

 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina

03.03.2020: Imperial College EXSS Doctoral Thesis Prize

Experimental Solid State Thesis Prize of the Physics department at Imperial College London for PhD thesis.

Publications

Latest Publications

Soft photonic skins with dynamic texture and colour control

S. Doshi, N.A. Güsken, G. Dijk, J. Carlström, J.E. Ortiz-Cárdenas, P. Suzuki, B. Li, P.M. Fordyce, A. Salleo, N.A. Melosh, M.L. Brongersma, Nature 649 (2026) 345–352.


Beam steering device and electronic apparatus including the same

N.A. Güsken, International Patent Number: 18957248, Patent Classification: US20250172751A1, 2025.


Optical modulator and electronic apparatus including the same

N.A. Güsken, International Patent Number: US20250116889A1, Patent Classification: US20250116889A1, 2025.


Schottky-barrier type infrared photodetector

N.A. Güsken, International Patent Number: 12159953, Patent Classification: US12159953B2, 2024.


Plasmonic modulators: bringing a new light to silicon

C. Hoessbacher, B. Baeuerle, N. Del Medico, E. De Leo, N.A. Güsken, W. Heni, A. Langenbach, V. Tedaldi, IET Conference Proceedings 2023 (2024) 1606–1608.


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