Team

High-field THz-driven Phenomena department

Department Head	TELBE coordinator
Prof. Dr. Sebastian F. Maehrlein (TU Dresden Professor for High-field Terahertz Science)	Dr. Jan-Christoph Deinert (TELBE facility and THz-ARPES)
Scientific Staff
Dr. Thales de Oliveira (TELBE/FELBE staff scientist, THz Nearfield Optical Microscopy)	Dr. Igor Ilyakov (TELBE beamline scientist)
Dr. Alexey Ponomaryov (TELBE beamline scientist)	Dr. Andreas Gebauer (THz-ARPES)
PhD Students
Atiqa Arshad (THz-driven dynamics at surfaces and interfaces, with AG Kaiser, TU Dresden)	Kang Jin (THz Spintronics)
Devu Surendrakurup Sreeja (THz Dynamics in Liquids)

Group picture archive

Winter 2026

Summer 2025

Former group members:

• Prof. Dr. Michael Gensch (senior scientist & group leader until 12/2018) - current affiliation: TU Berlin and DLR e. V.
• Dr. Bertram Green (Postdoc - High-Repetition-Rate DAQ and ONLINE data analysis) - current affiliation: MagLab Tallahassee
• Prof. Dr. Zhe Wang (Post Doc - THz driven magnetization dynamics in high magnetic fields) - current affiliation: TU Dortmund
• Dr. Semyon Germanskyi (PhD student - THz driven dynamics in liquid jets) - current affiliation: Universität zu Köln
• Dr. Nilesh Awari (PostDoc - THz driven magnetization dynamics)
• Mohammed Bawatna (PhD student - High-Repetition-Rate DAQ and ONLINE data analysis)
• Dr. Min Chen (PhD student - THz-based electron bunch diagnostic) - current affiliation: Fusion Bionic GmbH
• Dr. Gulloo Lal Prajapati - current affiliation: Padma Lab - Case Western Reserve University
• Dr. Arjun Karimbana Kandy (now at Marvel Fusion)