Curriculum Vitae

Current position

2026–

Postdoctoral ResearcherJEIP, Collège de France, ParisRydberg-assisted quantum engineering of light, Quantum Photonics team (A. Ourjoumtsev)

Education

2022–2025

PhD in PhysicsInstitut Polytechnique de Paris, École polytechniqueStudy of the Quantum Optical Properties of High-Harmonic Generation in Semiconductors. Defended December 2025.

2019–2022

MSc in PhysicsLeibniz University HannoverDesign and Characterization of a Soft X-Ray Diffraction Imaging Setup

2015–2020

BSc in PhysicsLeibniz University HannoverEstablishment of a Light-Sheet Microscope and Novel Algorithms for Image Enhancement

Research experience

2025–2026

ResearcherLaboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, École polytechniqueStrong-field quantum optics, Quantum group (H. Merdji)

2022–2025

PhD ResearcherLaboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, École polytechniquePhoton statistics of semiconductor high-harmonic generation, and quantum metrology of non-classical light from broadband sources. Co-supervised two M2 research projects.

2022

Student Research AssistantInstitute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz University HannoverUltrafast Laser Laboratory (U. Morgner)

2020–2021

Student Research AssistantFraunhofer ITEM, HannoverBioinformatics group (L. Wiese)

2019–2022

Student Research AssistantInstitute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz University HannoverBiophotonics group (A. Heisterkamp)

2017–2018

Student Research AssistantInstitute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz University HannoverQuantum Sensing group (E. Rasel)

Invited talks

2025

Probing the Non-Classicality of High-Harmonic Generation in SemiconductorsMax Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen

2024

Non-Classical Signatures in a Bipartite, High-Harmonic Based SystemExtreme Quantum Optics Workshop, ICFO, Barcelona

2024

Optical Quantum Phenomena: Non-Classical Light, Applications and High-Harmonic GenerationInstitute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz University Hannover

2023

Unraveling the Quantum Nature of High-Harmonic GenerationLaboratory of Advanced Quantum Architecture, EPFL, Lausanne

Conference contributions

2025

Certifying Non-Classicality of High-Harmonic Generation in Semiconductors3rd GDR TeQ Seminar, MINATEC Innovation Campus, GrenobleTalk

2025

Probing the Non-Classicality of High-Harmonic Generation in SemiconductorsWorkshop on Strong-Field QED, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, DresdenTalk

2024

Quantum Light from Solid-State High-Harmonic GenerationEuropean Quantum Technologies Conference, LisbonPoster

2024

Modal Analysis of a Multimode Displaced Squeezed State from High-Harmonic Generation2nd GDR TeQ Seminar, Sorbonne University, ParisPoster

2024

Squeezed States of Light Generated by High-Harmonic Generation23rd Ultrafast Phenomena Conference, BarcelonaPost-deadline talk

2024

Experimental Verification of the Non-Classicality of High-Harmonic Generation23rd Ultrafast Phenomena Conference, BarcelonaPoster

2024

Experimental Evidences of Quantum Properties in a High-Harmonic-Based Bipartite SystemSPIE Photonics Europe, StrasbourgTalk

2022

Table-Top Nanoscale Imaging with XUV and Soft X-ray RadiationDPG Spring Meeting, ErlangenTalk

Awards

2020

Gold Medal, iGEM ContestInternational Genetically Engineered Machine competitionWith the Hannover team, for a cell-based sensor detecting biofilm-associated inflammation on implants.

2012–2015

Awards at Jugend forschtGerman national science competition for school studentsFirst prize at federal level and prize of the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation at national level (2014). First prize at regional level and third prize with a special prize of the Deutsches Museum München at federal level (2015).

Service and outreach

2024, 2025

Co-organizer, Quantum PhDayENS Paris-Saclay and Institut d’Optique Graduate SchoolDoctoral meeting of the Quantum-Saclay network. The 2025 edition drew 100 participants, including QuTech (TU Delft), in cooperation with the Embassy of the Netherlands.

2024, 2025

Invited participant, Quantum Connections Summer SchoolHosted by Frank Wilczek

2020

Team lead, iGEM Team HannoverLeibniz University HannoverLed an interdisciplinary team of 16 students.

2018–2020

Student representativeCouncil of the QUEST Leibniz Research School

Publications