Visiting professor from Canada teaches at the Department of Physics in the winter semester
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Prof. Jean-Michel Menard takes over the Ulrich Bonse Visiting Chair for Instrumentation for the winter term.
This year, the Physics Department has established the Ulrich Bonse Visiting Chair for Instrumentation. This enables the department to invite an internationally renowned guest every semester. The visiting professors offer courses in their field of research and also strengthen the researchers' scientific networks. In addition to learning about the subject matter, the students also get an impression of the teaching concepts and forms of other universities from abroad. The visiting chair is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as part of its visiting lecturer programme.
Prof. Jean-Michel Ménard will take over the guest chair in the winter semester 2022/23. Jean-Michel Ménard is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa, where he opened the Ultrafast-THz Laboratory in 2016, which houses photonic systems for material characterisation. Dr Ménard received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2011 before conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Regensburg and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, a member of the Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics and a Fellow of the Max Planck-Ottawa Centre for extreme and quantum photonics.
Prof. Ménard's research lies at the interface of THz photonics, experimental condensed matter physics and nonlinear optics. Current projects in his group focus on improving time-resolved spectroscopy techniques and exploiting the properties of 2D quantum systems.
Prof. Ulrich Bonse gave his name to the guest chair: he came to the newly founded University of Dortmund in 1970 and is a founding member of the Department of Physics, which he continued to shape even after his retirement in 1993. Among other things, he was dean of the department, senator of the university and prorector for research. Prof. Bonse received several awards for his research and his commitment to TU Dortmund University. His research foci were X-ray interferometry and X-ray microtomography with synchrotron radiation.