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Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Phys. Dr.rer.nat. Thomas Pohl was appointed as University Professor for Theory of Light Matter Interaction at TU Wien with effect from 1.10.2023. He is assigned to the Institute of Theoretical Physics, opens an external URL in a new window (E136) at the Faculty of Physics.

Thomas Pohl comes from Thuringia in Germany and studied physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He carried out his doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden and at the TU Dresden, where he received his doctorate in 2005 with a dissertation on “Relaxation dynamics of ultracold plasmas, opens an external URL in a new window”. A postdoc then took him to the USA at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, opens an external URL in a new window in Cambridge near Boston (Massachusetts). In 2008 he moved back to the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, now as a research group leader. After working at the Max Planck Institute for almost 10 years, he was able to take up a Niels Bohr Professorship in Physics at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) in 2017. Thomas Pohl has received numerous awards, including the Otto Hahn Medal, the Gustav Hertz Prize and much more.

Thomas Pohl's scientific home is now the aforementioned institute, where he deals with the physics of individual quantum systems and their collective behavior, which can result from the mutual interactions and the strong coupling to light.

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