PD Dr Aras Kartouzian
Academic Career and Research Areas
PD Dr. Aras Kartouzian studied Materials Science and Engineering in Tehran, Iran, before earning his Master's in Advanced Materials at Ulm University. He obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and later joined Oxford University as an International Newton Fellow of The Royal Society. In 2019, he completed his habilitation in Physical Chemistry at TUM, where he has since been a group leader at the School of Natural Sciences. His research focuses on linear and nonlinear (chiroptical) spectroscopy across various states of matter, including gas, liquid, surfaces, and interfaces.
PD Dr. Kartouzian specializes in the spectroscopic investigation of cluster-assembled functional materials and chiral functional materials. His research includes developing high-sensitivity linear and nonlinear spectroscopy methods, exploring chirality transfer and induced circular dichroism, and studying light-matter interactions in asymmetric systems, as well as chiral interactions in engineering and biological applications. His group primarily focuses on fundamental scientific challenges in heterogeneous catalysis, spintronics, and photoinduced processes related to energy harvesting and conversion.
Key Publications (all publications)
Aras Kartouzian*, Robert P. Cameron: "Unlocking the hidden dimension: power of chirality in scientific exploration". Philosophical Transactions A. 2024; 382:20230321.
AbstractKevin Liang, Florian Ristow, Kevin Li, Johannes Pittrich, Natalie Fehn, Lukas Dörringer, Ueli Heiz, Reinhard Kienberger, Gennaro Pescitelli, Hristo Iglev*, Aras Kartouzian*: "Negative Nonlinear CD-ee Dependence in Polycrystalline BINOL Thin Films". JACS. 2023; 145: 27933-27938.
AbstractShangpu Liu, Markus W. Heindl, Natalie Fehn, Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila, Lissa Eyre, Silva Maria Kronawitter, Jonathan Zerhoch, Stanislav Bodnar, Andrii Shcherbakov, Anna Stadlbauer, Gregor Kieslich, Ian D. Sharp, David A. Egger, Aras Kartouzian, and Felix Deschler*: "Optically Induced Long-Lived Chirality Memory in the Color-Tunable Chiral Lead-Free Semiconductor (R)/(S)‑CHEA4Bi2BrxI10−x (x = 0−10)". JACS. 2023; 144:14079-14089.
AbstractFarinaz Mortaheb, Katrin Oberhofer, Johann Riemensberger, Florian Ristow, Reinhard Kienberger, Ulrich Heiz, Hristo Iglev,* and Aras Kartouzian*: "Enantiospecific Desorption Triggered by Circularly Polarized Light". Angewandte Chemie. 2019; 131: 15832-15836.
AbstractTobias Lünskens, Philipp Heister, Martin Thämer, Constantin A. Walenta, Aras Kartouzian* and Ulrich Heiz: "Plasmons in supported size-selected silver nanoclusters". PCCP. 2015; 17:17541-17544.
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