workplaces birth_date article_title name alma_mater
ludwig of technology university of edinburgh university of marburg university of maximilian stuttgart university of munich stanford university tampere university 1966 ortwin hess
 ortwin hess technical university of berlin university of erlangen
ortwin hess

ortwin hess -lrb- born 1966 -rrb- is a german-born theoretical physicist at imperial college london -lrb- uk -rrb- , working in condensed matter optics .
bridging condensed matter theory and quantum optics he specialises in nanophotonics , plasmonics , metamaterials and semiconductor laser dynamics .
since the late 1980s he has been an author and coauthor of over 300 peer-reviewed articles , the most popular of which , called '' ` trapped rainbow ' storage of light in metamaterials '' , was cited more than 400 times .
he pioneered active -lrb- gain enhanced -rrb- nanoplasmonics and metamaterials with quantum gain and in 2014 he introduced the ` stopped-light lasing ' principle as a novel route to cavity-free -lrb- nano - -rrb- lasing and localisation of amplified surface plasmon polaritons , giving him an h-index of 33 .
