Dr. Anna Rosławska

MPI Stuttgart, Germany
Anna Rosławska studied applied physics and nanotechnology in Poland. For her PhD, she moved to Germany where she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. In 2023, after a 4-year post-doc at the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (CNRS) in France, she returned to Stuttgart where she is currently leading an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group. In her research, she focuses on probing light-matter interaction with sub-nm precision, which is possible thanks to the combination of scanning probe microscopy with optical methods. 

Talk title: Light-matter interaction probed at the atomic scale
Light-matter interaction is essential for mechanisms such as luminescence, photosynthesis, and energy harvesting, defining the emission characteristics of molecular systems and governing the conversion of energy between photons and electrons. While these processes are intensively studied and employed, little is known about their dependence on atomic-scale properties since reaching such precision in optics is extremely demanding. This challenge is nowadays overcome thanks to the combination of optical spectroscopy approaches with scanning probe microscopy. In my talk, I will discuss how mapping optical properties of single molecules with nearly atomic precision [1,2] is enabled by the extreme field enhancement provided by the tip and show its application to induce and probe resonant energy transfer [3] and photochemical reactions [4] with sub-nm precision.