Dr. Niloufar Nilforoushan

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsExperimental Condensed Matter Physics,Atomic Physics, Molecular Physics, Laser Physics
KeywordsVan der Waals materials, THz generation, Correlated materials, Ultrafast spectroscopy, Charge density waves
Honours and awards

2024: Lindau Alumni (Invited as a young scientist to participate to the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 2024)

2023: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers

2013: Masters scholarship "Bourse d'accueil" from Université Paris-Sud, 2013 – 2015

2009: Silver medal, 3rd International Olympiad of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA 2009)

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityParis
InstitutionUniversite Paris Cite
InstituteLaboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques / UMR 7162
Homepagehttps://mpq.u-paris.fr/annuaire/niloufar-nilforoushan/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Rupert HuberInstitut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2023

Programme(s)

2022Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026Zhang, H.*, Nilforoushan N.*, Weidgans, C., Hirschmann, J., Gronwald, I., Mosina, K, Sofer, Z. Mooshammer, F., Dirnberger, F., and Huber, R.: Exciton-polariton condensates in van der Waals magnetic microwires. In: ArXiv (accepted in Nature Materials), 2026,
2026Kneller, O., Nilforoushan, N., Knorr, M., Borsch, M., Mooshammer, F., Kira, M., and Huber, R. Lightwave Engineering of Excitonic States in an Atomically Thin Semiconductor. CLEO 2026. Optica Publishing Group, 2026.
2026Freitas, T., Udina, M., Alekhin, A., Nilforoushan, N., Houver, S., Sacuto, A., Gonzalez, B. A., Fisher, I. R., Paul, I., and Gallais. Y.: Revealing the nature of the charge density wave order of ErTe3 via Raman scattering under anisotropic strain. In: ArXiv, 2026,
2026Gatuingt, L., Alekhin, A., Nilforoushan, N., Houver, S., Sacuto, A., Gu, G., and Gallais, Y.: Ultrafast Raman probe of the photoinduced superconducting to normal state transition in the cuprate Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ. In: Phys. Rev. B, 113, 2026, 014509
2023Nilforoushan, N.*, Kidd, C., Fournier, A., Palomo, J., Tignon, J., Dhillon, D., Lhuillier, E., Li, L., Davis, A. G., Linfield, E., Freeman, J., and Mangeney, J. Efficient THz generation from low-temperature-grown GaAs photoconductive antennas driven by Yb-doped fiber amplifier at 200 kHz repetition rate. In: Appl. Phys. Lett., 123, 2023, 241107
2023Lejman, M., Weis, M., Nilforoushan, N., Faure, J., Ta Phuoc, V., Cario, L., and Boschetto, D.: Ultrafast photoinduced conductivity reduction by bonding orbital control in an incommensurate crystal. In: Phys. Rev. B, 108, 2023, 134306
2022Apretna, T., Nilforoushan, N., Tignon, J., Dhillon, S., Carosella, F., Ferreira, R., Lhuillier, E., and Mangeney, J. Coherent THz wave emission from HgTe quantum dots. In: Appl. Phys. Rev, 121, 2022, 251101
2022Meineke, C., Schlosser, J., Zizlsperger, M., Liebich, M., Nilforoushan, N., Mosina, K., Terres, S., Chernikov, A., Sofer, Z., Huber, M., Florian M., Kira, M., Dirnberger, F., and Huber, R.: Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in the Atomically Thin van der Waals Magnet CrSBr. In: Nano Letters, 24, 2022, 4101
2021Nilforoushan*, N., Casula*, M., Amaricci, A., Caputo, M., Caillaux, J., Khalil, L., Papalazarou, E., Simon, P., Perfetti, L., Vobornik, I., Kumar Das, P., Fuji, J., Barinov, A., Santos-Cottin, D., Klein, Y., Fabrizio, M., Gauzzi, A., and Marsi, M*. Moving Dirac nodes by chemical substitution. In: PNAS, 118, 2021, e2108617118
2021Nilforoushan, N., Apretna, T., Song, C., Boulier, T., Tignon, J., Dhillon, S., Hanna, M., and Mangeney, J. Ultra-broadband THz pulses with electric field amplitude exceeding 100 kV/cm at a 200 kHz repetition rate. In: Opt. Exp., 30, 2021, 15556
2020Nilforoushan, N., Casula, M., Caputo, M., Papalazarou, E., Caillaux, J., Chen, Z., Perfetti, L., Amaricci, A., Santos-Cottin, D., Klein, Y., Gauzzi, A., and Marsi, M.: Photoinduced renormalization and electronic screening of quasi-two-dimensional Dirac states in BaNiS2. In: Phys. Rev. Research, 2, 2020, 043397