research for a sustainable energy future

About

The Feldmann Lab at Harvard/EPFL combines ultrafast magneto-chiroptical spectroscopy and materials chemistry to transform the way we produce and consume energy as a society.

For this, we explore the concept of symmetry breaking in novel soft semiconductors and nanomaterials to control charge, spin and light with these printable materials.

We work on uncovering the design rules which enable the next generation of cheap, efficient and flexible solar cells & ultra-bright displays, and unlock entirely new applications in quantum information technology.

Sascha is a proud supporter of MentorFirst

Newsfeed

October 2023

Sascha had lots of fun organizing the nanoGe MATSUS Fall Meeting 2023 in Malaga, together with the amazing Eleni & Ifan!

Great science on all aspects of materials research for sustainable development, and of course fantastic people in a beautiful venue!

Mor infos about the conference here:

.nanoge.org/MATSUSFall23/home

September 2023

We had a great time hosting Ron Naaman and his team from the Weizmann Institute (Israel) for a week here at the Rowland and are grateful for the joint Zuckerman Award that made this possible!

Lots of fun at SPIE Optics+Photonics 2023 in sunny San Diego!

Great to connect with friends old and new from across the globe and special thanks to Derya Baran and Andrew Muster for their invitation!

August 2023

Sascha at SPIE Optics and Photonics in San Diego

June 2023

Marina Freitag and her team visit us, coming from Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)!

Our latest work on mapping spins in perovskite films using ultrafast microscopy is out now in Nature Materials!

For a summary of this work without the jargon, check out the article by the Harvard Gazette!

We also thank Rick Averitt (UCSD) for the great News & Views summary!

Marina Freitag and team visiting us

May 2023

Juliane Borchert visits the group from Freiburg (Fraunhofer ISE)!

Reiko Oda and her team visits us from Bordeaux!

Juliane Borchert visiting the group
Reiko Oda and team visit the Feldmann Lab

April 2023

Yuanyuan (Alvin) Zhou visits us from Hong Kong!

Yuanyuan (Alvin) Zhou visits the FeldmannLab from Hong Kong

March 2023

Sascha is listed in this year’s

Forbes 30 Under 30! Wohoo!

Check out our new work in Nature Reviews Materials on Materials for chiral light control!

February 2023

Ina’s & Zifei’s work on the photophysics of a supramolecular chromophore cube made it onto the Cover of Angewandte!

Check out the paper here or the Research Highlight & Interview by Diamond Light Source here!

Sascha was featured in an interview with Angewandte Chemie - Read more about his values as a scientist here!

November-December 2022

MRS Fall 2022 organization and fun!

Lots of fun at MRS Fall 2022 Meeting in Boston, discussing great science with friends from near and far!

Sascha was also busy organizing symposium EN04!

Group outreach at the local STEM festival! Here is Zach showing the kids all about optoelectronics and chirality and having lots of fun!

October 2022

Zach letting curious kids smell odors based on different enantiomers
Zach at the exploration festival

September 2022

Our latest collaborative work on tracking the doping-induced changes in perovskite materials using battery-like devices is out in EES!

The Harvard Gazette is covering Sascha and the other Fellows at the Rowland!

Winald joins the Feldmann Lab as a visiting PhD student from the Heinze group at the University of Mainz!

August 2022

Our group’s latest work is out in JACS: We uncover a generalizable mechanism explaining the enhanced brightness observed in doped perovskites based on symmetry analysis!