Nilforoushan Niloufar – EN

Research Interest

• Van der Waals materials
• Quantum phenomena in low dimensions
• Dynamical phase transition
• Strongly correlated electronic systems

Education and professional experience

• 2024- present CNRS Researcher- Université Paris Cité
• 2022-2024 Postdoctoral researcher (Humboldt Fellow), University of Regensburg, Germany
• 2019-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
• 2015-2018 PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, Université Paris-Saclay, France

List of selected publications

1. Gatuingt, 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 Sr2CaCu2O8+δ”, accepted in Physical Review B (2025)
   https://doi.org/10.1103/wkx7-lcqf
2. Zhang, 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”, arXiv:2506.06010 (2025)
   https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06010
3. Liebich, M., Florian, M., Nilforoushan, N*., Mooshammer, F., Mosina, K., Sofer, Z., Dirnberger, F., Kira*, M., Huber, R., “Controlling Coulomb correlations and fine structure of quasi-1D excitons by magnetic order”, Nature Materials 24, 384 (2025)
   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-025-02120-1
4. Meineke, 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., Huber, R., “Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in the Atomically Thin van der Waals Magnet CrSBr” Nano Letters 24, 4101 (2024)
   https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c05010
5. Nilforoushan, N.*, Kidd, C., Fournier, A., Palomo, J., Tignon, J., Dhillon, D., Lhuillier, E., Li, L., Davis, A. G., Linfield, E., Freeman, J., Mangeney, J. “Efficient THz generation from low-temperature-grown GaAs photoconductive antennas driven by Yb-doped fiber amplifier at 200 kHz repetition rate”. Applied Physics Letters 123, 241107 (2023)
   https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0179419
6. Lejman, M., Weis, M., Nilforoushan, N., Faure, J., Ta Phuoc, V., Cario, L., Boschetto, D. “Ultrafast photoinduced conductivity reduction by bonding orbital control in an incommensurate crystal”, Physical Review B 108, 134306 (2023).
   https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.134306
7. Nilforoushan, N., Apretna, T., Song, C., Boulier, T., Tignon, J., Dhillon, S., Hanna, M., Mangeney, J. “Ultra-broadband THz pulses with electric field amplitude exceeding 100 kV/cm at a 200 kHz repetition rate” Optics Express 30, 15556- 15565 (2022)
   https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.453105
8. Apretna, T., Nilforoushan, N., Tignon, J., Dhillon, S., Carosella, F., Ferreira, R., Lhuillier, E., and Mangeney, J. “Coherent THz wave emission from HgTe quantum dots”, Applied Physics Letters 121, 251101 (2022).
9. Nilforoushan, 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., Marsi, M*. “Moving Dirac nodes by chemical substitution”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2108617118 (2021).
   https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108617118
10. Nilforoushan, N., Casula, M., Caputo, M., Papalazarou, E., Caillaux, J., Chen, Z., Perfetti, L., Amaricci, A., Santos-Cottin, D., Klein, Y., Gauzzi, A., Marsi, M. “Photoinduced renormalization and electronic screening of quasi-two-dimensional Dirac states in BaNiS2”. Physical Review Research 2, 043397 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043397

Teaching activities (2024-present):

• Condensed Matter Physics (Master’s course, Sorbonne University)
• Experimental physics (Bachelor’s lab course, Paris Cité University)
• Quantum mechanics (Master’s course, Exercise classes, Paris Cité University)
• Physics for biologists (Bachelor’s course, Exercise classes, Paris Cité University)

Funded research proposals:

ERC-ANR Tremplin, DIM-QuanTIP, Émergence recherche – début de carrière, Émergence de la ville de Paris, and Initiatives IdEx