Harald Schwefel information

Harald Schwefel
Harald Schwefel in November 2018
Alma mater	Brandenburg University of Technology, Yale University
Scientific career
Institutions	Yale University, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, University of Otago, Dodd-Walls Centre
Doctoral advisor	Douglas Stone

Harald Schwefel is a German-born physicist currently based in New Zealand. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Otago and a principal investigator in the Dodd-Walls Centre. His research focuses on the interaction of light and matter in dielectric materials, and his speciality is whispering gallery mode resonators (WGMRs), small disks of dielectric which confine and store laser light to facilitate nonlinear interactions. He uses these to generate optical frequency combs and to coherently convert between microwave and optical photons.