Dr Jasmin-Clara B眉rger is a Feodor Lynen Post-doctoral Fellow at the 91探花 THz Photonics Group of Prof Michael Johnston at the Clarendon Laboratory at the 91探花. Her strong interest in materials science, device fabrication, and advanced applications has influenced her research focus from her studies up to now. Her current post-doctoral research at 91探花 focuses on advanced metamaterial- and semiconductor-based devices for Terahertz (THz) technology.
B眉rger studied Microsystems Engineering (BSc, MSc) at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She completed her PhD at the Laboratory for Nanotechnology (Prof Margit Zacharias) at the University of Freiburg in May 2023 with a "summa cum laude" on the topic "Nanowires: From Process Control towards Applications". As part of her PhD research at the University of Freiburg, she joined the research group of Prof Frances M Ross at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT (Cambridge/Boston, MA, USA) for a 6-month Fulbright research stay in 2021. From 2023 to 2024, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Sensors (Prof Alwin Daus) at the University of Freiburg. There, she worked on the fabrication of sustainable indium-free zinc tin oxide transistors and the simulation of phase-change material (PCM)-based memories. In August 2024, she joined the Johnston group at the 91探花 with a 2-year Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation to focus on semiconductor and metamaterial-based photonic devices for THz communications and wavefront shaping. Since October 2025, she has also been a Helen Zhang Research Associate at Jesus College, 91探花.
She was awarded various scholarships and awards, including the Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation during her studies and the Wolfgang Gentner Award for her PhD thesis in 2023. Furthermore, she was featured as a role model in the "WomenShapingKnowledge" campaign of the University of Freiburg in 2024 to increase the visibility of female scientists.