Anna Katharina Ott

Mail

anna.ott@univ-tours.fr

• Since 2024: Lecturer on 'Raman spectroscopy applications to materials' for master students in Materials Science, University of Tours, France.
• Lecturer and demonstrator for PhD students (Raman spectroscopy, LatTeX); EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology, University of Cambridge, UK.
• Lecturer, demonstrator and tutor for undergraduate students in Engineering (Engineering Mathematics and Scientific Computing; Communications Engineering; Part IA Electrical and Information Engineering paper); University of Exeter and Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Research Interests:

• Light-matter interactions in 2D materials
• Near-field interactions
• Lattice vibrations and phonons
• Interlayer coupling

Current Research Projects/Funding:

• 01/2026 - 12/2029: ANR JCJC - PerOMem Perovskite Oxide Membranes with a Twist, PI.

Student Supervisions

• Mr. Ilyass Aabouch (PhD candidate since October 2025)

• 3 PhD students (Co-supervisor)
• 3 Master students (Principal supervisor)
• 5 Bachelor students (Principal supervisor)

My PhD at the University of Cambridge and Newnham College focused on amorphous carbon based resistive random access memories and data storage devices, and the study of light interaction in 2D materials and heterostructures. After the PhD, I stayed on as Research Associate at the Cambridge Graphene Centre and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, before being appointed as lecturer in Quantum Engineering at the University of Exeter, where I became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Since 2022, I have been working in France with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). I have obtained my Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the University of Strasbourg in 2024 and am now based at the GREMAN laboratory in Tours.

Key Publications

A full list of my publications can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cEwN9SkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

• A. K. Ott and A. C. Ferrari, Raman Spectroscopy in Graphene and Related Materials, book chapter in Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, 2nd edition, Elsevier (2024). - doi: link
• A. K. Ott, N; Dwivedi, K. Sasikumar, C. Dou, R. J. Yeo, B. Narayanan, U. Sassi, D. De Fazio, G. Soavi, T. Dutta, O. Balci, S. Shinde, J. Zhang, A. K. Katiyar, P. S. Keatley, A. K. Srivastava, S. K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, A. C. Ferrari, C. S. Bhatia, Graphene overcoats for ultra-high storage density magnetic media, Nature Communications 12, 2854 (2021). - doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22687-y
• M. R. Molas, A. V. Tyurnina, V. Zólyomi, A. K. Ott, D. J. Terry, M. J. Hamer, C. Yelgel, A. Babiński, A. G. Nasibulin, A. C. Ferrari, V. I. Fal’ko, R. Gorbachev, Raman spectroscopy of GaSe and InSe post-transition metal chalcogenides layers, Faraday Discussions 227, 163 (2021). - doi: 10.1039/D0FD00007H
• G. Rajan, J. J. Morgan, C. Murphy, E. Torres Alonso, J. Wade, A. K. Ott, S. Russo, H. Alves, M. F. Craciun, A. I. S.  Neves, Low operating voltage carbon-graphene hybrid E-textile for temperature sensing, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 12, 26 (2020). - doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c08397
• D. De Fazio, D. G. Purdie, A. K. Ott, P. Braeuninger-Weimer, T. Khodkov, S. Goossens, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, P. Livreri, F. H. L. Koppens, S. Hofmann, I. Goykhman, A. C.  Ferrari, A. Lombardo, High-mobility, wet-transferred graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition, ACS Nano 13, 8926 (2019). - doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b02621
• F. Hui, E. Grustan‐Gutierrez, S. Long, Q. Liu, A. K. Ott, A. C. Ferrari, M. Lanza, Graphene and related materials for resistive random access memories,  Advanced Electronic Materials, 3, 1600195 (2017). - doi: 10.1002/aelm.201600195
• M. Bruna, A. K. Ott, M. Ijäs, D. Yoon, U. Sassi, A. C. Ferrari, Doping dependence of the Raman spectrum of defected graphene, ACS Nano 8, 7432 (2014). - doi: 10.1021/nn502676g
• J. Zabel, R. R. Nair, A. K. Ott, T. Georgiou, A. K. Geim, K. S.  Novoselov, C. Casiraghi, Raman spectroscopy of graphene and bilayer under biaxial strain: bubbles and balloons, Nano Letters 12, 617 (2012). - doi: 10.1021/nl203359n

Selected Invited Lectures/Seminars

• Lecture on Characterisation Techniques: Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy, GDR CarMa Nano Summer School, Autrans, France, July 2026.
• Raman workshop; 1-week long course for PhD students including lectures on Raman spectroscopy, group theory and instrumentation, practicals and a data analysis session, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in 2D Materials of Tomorrow, University of Cambridge, UK, February 2026.
• Lecture on Raman Spectroscopy, Journées Nationales de Thermoélectricité, GDR NAME, Blois, France, November 2025.
• Lecture on Raman Spectroscopy of 2D Materials, Summer School in Erasmus Strategic Partnership Project Critical Skills for Electronic Engineers, ATHENA European University, July 2021.