To obtain the full e-mail address append ‘fkf.mpg.de’
Current team members
Dr. Anna Rosławska
Research group leader
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 until 2019 graduating with a PhD in physics from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Afterwards, she moved to the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (CNRS) in France (group of G. Schull), where she did her postdoc and obtained Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. In 2023, she returned to Stuttgart where she is currently leading an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group. Her research interests focus on light-matter interaction probed with sub-nm precision.
Email: a.roslawska@
Publications: Google Scholar
Dr. Klaus Kuhnke
Guest scientist
Klaus Kuhnke holds a degree in Physics and a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn and received a Feodor-Lynen Fellowship in 1991 for his postdoc studies at the Bell Laboratories in the U.S. His research has focused on the structure of and processes at interfaces employing a variety of devoted methods such as thermal energy atom scattering, Xray surface crystallography, X-ray circular dichroism, and time-resolved nonlinear optical spectroscopy. In the past decade, he developed and set up a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope for luminescence studies. Until 2025, he was leading the nanooptics research group employing this instrument to investigate electroluminescence from molecular systems.
Email: k.kuhnke@
Dr. Daniel Arribas
Postdoctoral researcher
Daniel Arribas graduated in Physics in 2019 in Spain and one year later obtained a Master’s Degree in Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics. During his PhD, he worked at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC) focusing on surface-catalysed reactions of hydrocarbons characterised by surface sensitive techniques. In 2025 he moved to Stuttgart as a postdoctoral researcher at the Nanoscale Science Department of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Currently, his research work revolves around the interactions of organic and biological molecular systems with light and their characterization by scanning tunnelling microscopy.
Email: d.arribas@
Publications: Google Scholar
ORCID: 0000-0002-8186-2168
Dr. Irena Padniuk
Postdoctoral researcher
Irena Padniuk received her Master’s degree in Experimental Physics from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, in 2019. During her PhD at the same institution, she specialized in the on-surface synthesis of single molecules, particularly nanographenes, and the detailed characterization of their electronic properties. To extend this topic to light–molecule interactions on surfaces, she joined the Nanoscale Science Department at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research as a postdoctoral researcher.
Email: i.padniuk@
MSc. Thiago Brito
PhD Student
Thiago Brito earned his bachelor’s degree in nanotechnology, specializing in physics, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He then completed his master’s degree in applied physics at the State University of Campinas. Thiago is now working in the group as a PhD student in physics investigating single molecule luminescence.
Email: t.brito@
Alumni
Fábio Costa
Victor Feitosa