Our research group utilizes femtosecond lasers, ultrafast optics, and equilibrium optical spectroscopy to investigate and manipulate emergent phenomena in quantum materials. We seek to uncover novel states of matter that arise at thermal equilibrium, as well as novel nonequilibrium phases enabled by strong light-matter interactions:

Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Control: Dynamically manipulating collective order by resonant phonon excitations in single crystals and self-organized polar textures.

Emergent Phenomena at Equilibrium: Utilizing terahertz spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, and complementary spectroscopic and diffraction probes to investigate how fluctuations and symmetry breaking shape collective excitations in quantum materials.

Chirality Detection and Control: Detecting and controlling chiral lattice, electronic, and magnetic excitations using Second Harmonic Generation dichroism.