Office Address:
Pohlweg 55
33098 Paderborn
Room:
N3.338
Office Address:
Pohlweg 55
33098 Paderborn
Room:
N3.338
Paderborn University
Vice President - Professor
Key research area Optoelectronics and Photonics
Member - Professor

About Torsten Meier

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2018: Founding member of the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems, PhoQS, Paderborn University

Since 2017: Board member, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2), Paderborn University

Since 2007: Professor (W3)

Head of the “Computational Optoelectronics and Photonics” group, Department of Physics, Paderborn University

Since 2007: Board member, Center for Optoelectronics and Photonics Paderborn (CeOPP), Paderborn University

2008 - 2017: Deputy speaker, DFG Research Training Group 1464 "Micro- and Nanostructures in Optoelectronics and Photonics", Paderborn University

2002 - 2007: DFG Heisenberg Fellow and Lecturer

Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

2001 - 2002: Lecturer

Philipps-Universität Marburg, GermanyPhilipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

2000: Habilitation

Theoretical Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

1997 - 2000: Postdoc

Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

1995 - 1997: Postdoc

Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

1994 - 1995: Postdoc

Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

16.09.1994: Doctorate

Dr. rer. nat. in Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Stephan W. Koch & Prof. Dr. Peter Thomas

1987 - 1992: Degree programme

Diploma in Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

2002 - 2007: Heisenberg fellow of the DFG

1995 - 1996: Postdoctoral fellowship of the DAAD

1992: Award of the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung for diploma in physics

Publications

Latest Publications

Quantum-optical excitations of semiconductor nanostructures in a microcavity using a two-band model and a single-mode quantum field
H. Rose, A.N. Vasil’ev, O.V. Tikhonova, T. Meier, P. Sharapova, Physical Review A 107 (2023).
Experimental studies of the excitonic nonlinear response of GaAs-based type-I and type-II quantum well structures interacting with optical and terahertz fields
T. Meier, M. Stein, F. Schäfer, D. Anders, J.H. Littmann, M. Fey, A. Trautmann, C. Ngo, J.T. Steiner, M. Reichelt, C. Fuchs, K. Volz, S. Chatterjee, in: Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXVII, SPIE , 2023.
Terahertz-induced anomalous currents following the optical excitation of excitons in semiconductor quantum wells
T. Meier, C. Ngo, S. Priyadarshi, H.T. Duc, M. Bieler, in: Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXVII, SPIE, 2023.
Analysis of the nonlinear optical response of excitons in type-I and type-II quantum wells including many-body correlations
T. Meier, A. Trautmann, M. Stein, F. Schäfer, D. Anders, C. Ngo, J.T. Steiner, M. Reichelt, S. Chatterjee, in: Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXVII, SPIE, 2023.
Gain recovery dynamics in active type-II semiconductor heterostructures
T. Meier, F. Schäfer, M. Stein, J. Lorenz, F. Dobener, C. Ngo, J.T. Steiner, C. Fuchs, W. Stolz, K. Volz, J. Hader, J.V. Moloney, S.W. Koch, S. Chatterjee, Applied Physics Letters 122 (2023).
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Teaching


Current Courses

  • Physikalisches Kolloquium
  • Lab Project
  • Aktuelle Fragen der Festkörper-Optoelektronik und -Photonik

Scientific Engagement

Since 2008  |  Committee member, SPIE Photonics West conference on "Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics", San Francisco, USA


2012  |  Program committee member, 11th International Workshop on Nonlinear Optics and Excitation Kinetics in Semiconductors (NOEKS 11)


2008 - 2011  |  Organising and technical committee member of the "International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Nano-Photonics (TaCoNa-Photonics)" (Bad Honnef, Germany)


2010  |  Chairman of the 10th International Workshop on Nonlinear Optics and Excitation Kinetics in Semiconductors (NOEKS 10)


2011  |  Guest editor, Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Nonlinear Optics and Excitation Kinetics in Semiconductors (NOEKS 10)


Further Information

Engagement and positions in university committees and administration

  • since 2018: Vice-President for International Relations, Paderborn University
  • 2011 - 2018: Dean of the Faculty of Science, Paderborn University
  • 2008 - 2010: Speaker of the Board of the Department of Physics, Paderborn University
  • since 2012: Member and deputy head of the PhD examination board of the Department of Physics, Paderborn University