Prof. Dr. V. SANDOGHDAR Scientific career, awards and honors ...

Prof. Dr. V. SANDOGHDAR
Scientific career, awards and honors
1987 Bachelor of Science at the University of California in Davis
1988-1989 Master of Science and Master of Philosophy (in Physics) at Yale University
1993-1995 Postdoctoral Work at École Normale Superieure, Paris, France
1993 Doctor of Philosophy (in Physics) at Yale University, USA
1995-1996 Research Scientist at University of Konstanz (Inst. of Prof. J. Mlynek)
1996-2001 Head of the Nano-Group at University of Konstanz (Inst. of Prof. J. Mlynek)
2001 Habilitation
2001-2011 Full Professor at Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich
2010 Alexander von Humboldt-Professorship
2010 ERC-Advanced-Grant
since 2011 Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen
Program Chair, EQEC, Munich (2011), Editor, Molecular Physics (Taylor&Francis), May
2007- 2010, Initiator and Spokesperson of the Zurich Center for Imaging Science & Technology
(CIMST, www.cimst.ethz.ch) (2005- 2010 ), Initiator and Spokesperson of the Network of
Optical Sciences and Technology at ETH (optETH, www.opteth.ethz.ch) (2004- 2010), Member
of the Advisory Board of the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research
Council, Ottawa, Canada (2005- ), Associate Editor, European Physics Journal D, January
2009 - February 2010, Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry
(American Chemical Society) (2006-2009), Deputy Spokesperson of the ETH Micro &
Nanoscience Platform (2005 - 2010), Member of the Editorial Board of Molecular Physics
(Taylor&Francis, UK) (2003-2007), Initiator of an ETH Science Education Program for Primary
Schools (2005), Chairman, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich (2005 and
2006), Member of the steering board and scientific secretary of the Optik-Zentrum Konstanz
(2000-2001), Organizer of the international conference “Functionalized plasmonic nanostructures
for biosensing”, April 19-23, 2010 in Monte Verita, Switzerland, with 20 invited speakers
and 60 contributed posters from 15 countries, Principal organizer of the 231st W-E Heraeus
Workshop:"Current Trends in Nano-Optics" May 14-18, 2000 in Bad-Honnef, Germany, with
22 invited speakers and 32 contributed posters from 10 countries, Member of the international
committees of the International Conferences on Near-Field Optics and Related Techniques,
Rochester, USA (Aug. 2002); Seoul, South Korea (Sept. 2004); Lausanne, Switzerland
(Sept. 2006); Buenos Aires (Sept. 2008), Beijing (Aug., 2010), Member of the program
committee of the International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC), San Francisco, USA
(2004), Member of the program committee for SPIE conference on Photonic and Optoelectronics,
Sevilla, Spain (May 2005), Co-chair of symposium on Plasmonics at IQEC, CLEO
Pacific, Tokyo, Japan (June2005), Member of the program committee for SPIE conferences
on Nanoplasmonics, San Diego, USA (2005- 2010)
Ten most important publications in the field
1 M. Celebrano, P. Kukura, A. Renn, V. Sandoghdar, Imaging single molecules by optical
Absorption, Nature Photonics (2010)

2 M. Krishnan, N. Mojarad, P. Kukura, V. Sandoghdar, Geometry-induced electrostatic
trapping of nanometric objects in a fluid, Nature, 467, 692 (2010)
3 R. Lettow, Y. Rezus, A. Renn, G. Zumofen, E. Ikonen, S. Götzinger, V. Sandoghdar,
Quantum Interference of Tunably Indistinguishable Photons from Remote Organic
Molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 123605 (2010)
4 H. Eghlidi, K. Lee, X. Chen, S. Götzinger, V. Sandoghdar, Resolution and Enhancement
in Nanoantenna-Based Fluorescence Microscopy, Nano Lett. 9 , 4007 (2009)
5 P. Kukura, H. Ewers, C. Müller, A. Renn, A. Helenius, V. Sandoghdar, High-speed
nanoscopic tracking of the position and orientation of a single virus, Nature Methods
6, 923-927 (2009)
6 J. Hwang, M. Pototschnig, R. Lettow, G. Zumofen, A. Renn, S. Götzinger, V. Sandoghdar,
A single-molecule optical transistor, Nature 460, 76 (2009)
7 G. Wrigge, I. Gerhardt, J. Hwang, G. Zumofen, V. Sandoghdar, Efficient coupling of
photons to a single molecule and the observation of its resonance fluorescence, Nature
Phys., 4, 60-66 (2008)
8 Mazzei, S. Götzinger, L. de S. Menezes, G. Zumofen, O. Benson, V. Sandoghdar,
Controlled coupling of counterpropagating whispering-gallery modes by a single
Rayleigh scatterer: A classical problem in a quantum optical light, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99,
173603 (2007)
9 Gerhardt, G. Wrigge, P. Bushev, G. Zumofen, R. Pfab, V. Sandoghdar, Strong extinction
of a laser beam by a single molecule, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 033601 (2007)
10 S. Kühn, U. Hakanson, L. Rogobete, V. Sandoghdar, On-command enhancement of
single molecule fluorescence using a gold nanoparticle as an optical nano-antenna,
Phys.Rev. Lett. 97, 017402 (2006)
Performance to date in the supervision of doctorates
Dr. Ben Buchler (ACQAO Research Fellow, Department of Quantum Science, The Australian
National University, Canberra)
Dr. A. Femius Koenderink (Group leader `Resonant Nanophotonics' (fulltime), Center for
Nanophotonics, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam)
Dr. Philip Kukura (EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow and Stipendiary Lecturer in Physical
Chemistry, St Hugh's College, Oxford)
Dr. Hannes Schniepp (Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Science and Principle
Investigator, Nanomaterials and Imaging Lab, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg/USA)
Dr. Jaesuk Hwang (Imperial College London)
Prof. Jens Michaelis (LMU, München)
List of dissertations during the last 5 years
2006 Pfab, Robert, Dynamics of Single Molecules in Confined Media and Towards Two-
Photon Interference
2006 Gerhardt, Ilja, Absorption and Scattering of Single Molecule measured by a near-field

tip
2006 Rogobete, Lavinia, The influence of the nano-enviroment on the optical properties of
a dipole emitter: a theoretical study
2006 Seelig, Johannes, Optical Methods for Nanoscale Investigations in Biology
2006 Kühn, Sergei, Modifikation der Emission eines Moleküles im optischen Nahfeld eines
Nanoteilchens
2008 Wrigge, Gert, Coherent and Incoherent Light Scattering in the Resonance Fluorescence
of a Single Molecule
2009 Walser, Andreas, Cryogenic single, molecule spectroscopy for optical nanoscopy
2010 Lettow, Robert, Interference between indistinguishable photons from remote organic
molecules