Institute News

Andrea Cavalleri, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), will be awarded the Stern-Gerlach-Medal of the German Physical Society (DPG). He receives the Prize in recognition of his “pioneering work in light-based control of quantum materials, with which he made groundbreaking contributions to controlling emergent phenomena in solid-state physics”. more

Three Directors of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), Angel Rubio, Jie Shan and Kin Fai have been selected as Highly Cited Researchers 2025 by Clarivate. more

The roof garden of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) is the winner of this year's ‘Hamburg Award for Green Buildings’. It combines research, nature, and climate action. more

Mohammad Hafezi, Professor at the University of Maryland and Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), has been honored with a Humboldt Research Award. As part of the award, he will spend time at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, collaborating with leading scientists in the field of quantum materials and light-matter interactions. more

Alba de las Heras has been awarded a prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Theory Department of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) to study ultrafast interactions of topological matter with structured laser beams. The project focuses on exploiting all the degrees of freedom of femtosecond laser pulses to gain further control over the electron dynamics in topological materials, and particularly Weyl semimetals. more

The ERC Synergy project Unravelling the Mysteries of Vibrational Strong Coupling (UnMySt) officially began with a two-day kick-off meeting hosted at the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) in Strasbourg. Bringing together all participating research groups from Tel Aviv University, Université de Strasbourg, the University of Pennsylvania and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, the meeting marked the beginning of a six-year collaboration at the forefront of chemistry, quantum electrodynamics, and materials science. more

The Excellence Cluster CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter (CUI:AIM) has been positively evaluated following a successful review and is now set to enter a second seven-year funding phase under Germany’s Excellence Strategy, jointly supported by the federal and state governments. The Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), one of the founding applicants alongside Universität Hamburg (UHH), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), and European XFEL GmbH (XFEL), congratulates everyone involved on this major achievement. more