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Welcome to the Huber group at the University of Regensburg!

Many of the fundamental laws and unexpected phenomena in condensed matter physics are caused by extremely fast dynamics of electrons and ions on the femtosecond time (1 fs = 10-15 s) and terahertz frequency scale (1 THz = 1012 Hz). Unravelling such ultrafast processes is the main interest of our research. We develop next-generation, high-intensity femtosecond laser sources and THz technology, and employ them to explore novel femtophysics.

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Latest News


2025-09-09

Cyclotron resonance reveals Dirac bandstructure

? Joshua Mornhinweg, Harvard University

In close collabortaion with the groups of Christoph Lange (TU Dortmund) and Sergey Ganichev (UR), we were able to use contact-free broadband THz magneto-spectroscopy to map the Dirac cone of buried HgTe quantum wells with sub-meV precision, revealing small band gaps and the onset of relativistic Landau quantization.

The results have been published in Applied Physics Letters. ... more


2025-08-04

Congratulations to Dr. Manuel Meierhofer on His PhD and New Role as Team Leader

We are delighted to congratulate Manuel Meierhofer on the successful completion of his PhD thesis “Visualizing Lightwave Electronics in Momentum Space.” We are equally excited to share that Manuel will continue with us as Team Leader for Subcycle Photoemission. We look forward to many more years of inspiring research and fruitful collaboration together.

Image (from left to right): Ulrich H?fer, Manuel Meierhofer, Rupert Huber.
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2025-07-23

Best lecture award

Our lecture on physics of atoms and molecules was awarded with the Best Lecture Award of the Faculty of Physics.
Image (from left to right): Peter Menden, Felix Schiegl, Andreas Rank, Simon Anglhuber, Rupert Huber, Michael Aschenbrenner, Karoline Bernhard-H?fer.
Missing: Svenja Nerreter, Katharina Gl?ckl, Jakob Helml... more


2025-07-17

Congratulations to Dr. Johannes Hayes on His PhD

We warmly congratulate Dr. Johannes Hayes on the successful completion of his PhD thesis, “Subcycle Optical Nanoscopy with Atomic-Scale Resolution.” While Johannes will be moving on to new opportunities beyond our group, we sincerely thank him for his contributions and wish him all the very best for the future.





Image (from left to right): Rupert Huber, Johannes Hayes.
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2025-05-12

Prof. Michael Zuerch wins Bessel research award and takes it to Regensburg


? UC Berkeley (Press Release)
We warmly congratulate Professor Michael Zuerch (UC Berkeley) on receiving the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His innovative work in ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy provides new insights into electron dynamics and symmetry in quantum materials. With the price he plans a research stay at the Regensburg Center for Ultrafast Nanoscopy. We are excited to welcome him and look forward to a fruitful collaboration exploring fundamental light–matter interactions on ultrashort timescales.
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Funding agencies

Our group regularly receives funding from national and international research agencies. Among them are:

The German Science Foundation

with funding for SFB 1277, GRK 2905, as well as smaller grants (HU1598) and major instrumentation


The European Research Council

through several grants, including ERC grant 101071259 (Orbital Cinema), ERC grant 305003 (QUANTUMsubCYCLE) and ERC grant 681379 (SPRINT)


The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

with several current and past fellowships, including funding for N. Nilforoushan


The German Federal Republic and the Free State of Bavaria

funding the Regensburg Center for Ultrafast Nanoscopy according to Art. 91b Abs. 1 Satz 1 GG


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Highlights


July 2024

Publication in Nature Photon.

June 2024
Coverstory in Nature Photon.

May 2024
Publication in Nature

July 2023
Launch of the ERC project Orbital Cinema

April 2023
Publication in Nature

October 2022
Publication in Nature

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