• Non-equilibrium states of correlated materials
• Electron relaxation in low dimensional structures
• Magnetism on ultrafast time scales

• Ion induced electron dynamics in solids
• Structural modifications by ion irradiation
• Ultra-short ion pulses

• Femtoelectrochemistry
• Ultrafast Dynamics at Condensed Matter Interfaces
• Nonlinear optical and optoelectronic spectroscopy

• Non-equilibrium electron and lattice dynamics in heterostructures
• Charge and spin transfer at interfaces
• Time-resolved x-ray and non-linear optical spectroscopy

Condensed matter theory and advanced computing

• Topology in physics
• Spintronics
• Reservoir computing

• Transport measurements on low-dimensional quantum systems (quantum dots, two-dimensional electron gases)
• Interaction between nanoobjects
• Optical spectroscopy on nanoparticles/quantum dots
• Nanopattering techniques (focused ion beam, electron beam lithography)

• Exitations

• Terahertz

• Energy conversion materials: shape memory alloys and magnetocaloric effect
• Competion of magnetic and elastic interactions: Lattice dynamics and martensitic microstructure on the nano-scale
• Metallic nanoparticles: Structural stability, spin and orbital magentism

• Manipulation of semiconductor surface morphology
• Epitaxial growth, surfactant mediated epitaxy
• Selforganisation of nanostructures
• Ultrafast electron and lattice dynamics in nanostructures

• Quantum transport in nanostructructures
• Spintronics
• Diagrammatic transport theory

• Carrier dynamics in black phosphorus
• Nonlinear graphene plasmonics
• THz near-field microscopy

• Caloric effects in magnetic materials
• Magnetic nanoparticles and thin films
• Magnetic interactions in phase segregation by temperature treatment

• Hybrid QM/MM Simulations
• Ab initio Multireference Calculations
• Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics

• Nanoscaled modifications by energetic ions
• Correlative scanning probe and optical microscopy
• Graphene and other 2D materials

• Strong fields
• Charge carriers in graphene
• Strongly correlated systems
• Quantum technology, information & simulators

• Structural dynamics in laser-excited solids and nanostructures
• Ultrafast phase transitions and laser ablatione
• Femtosecond X-ray science

• Mesoscopic thermoelectrics
• Phase-coherent heat transport
• Unconventional superconductivity

• Spectro-electrochemistry with ultrafast time resolution
• Pump-probe sum frequency spectroscopy
• Elementary electrochemical processes

• Time-resolved total scattering of solid, liquid and gas
• Electronic and nuclear structure dynamics of quantum materials
• Operando and in-situ MeV-UED scattering for energy materials

• (Time resolved) X-ray absorption spectroscopy
• Element specific properties of complex nanostructures
• Electronic and local geometric structure investigations
• Phase transitions in molecular systems