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Max Durach, Ph.D.

Max Durach, Ph.D.

Biochemistry, Chemistry & Physics

Home Campus: Statesboro
mdurach@georgiasouthern.edu
912-478-0575

Research Areas

Electromagnetism, material science, photonics, nanotechnology, metamaterials, plasmonics, optics

Education

  • PhD, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA

Publications

  1. Durach, M. Beyond Green’s Functions: Inverse Helmholtz and “Om” ॐ-Potential Methods for Macroscopic Electromagnetism in Isotropy-Broken Media. Photonics 12, 660 (2025)
  2. Tóth, E., Fekete, O.A., Bánhelyi, B. et al. Layered Babinet complementary patterns acting as asymmetric negative index metamaterial. Sci Rep 14, 29568 (2024).
  3. Durach, M. Biaxial Gaussian Beams, Hermite–Gaussian Beams, and Laguerre–Gaussian Vortex Beams in Isotropy-Broken Materials. Photonics 11, 1062 (2024)
  4. Durach, M. Theory of Refraction, Ray–Wave Tilt, Hidden Momentum, and Apparent Topological Phases in Isotropy-Broken Materials Based on Electromagnetism of Moving Media. Appl. Sci. 14, 6851 (2024)
  5. J. Munga, C. Yang, Md A. Rab, T. V. Shahbazyan, M. Durach, M. A. Noginov, and N. Noginova, “Highly luminescent ultra-thin films with rare earth for plasmonic applications,” Opt. Continuum 2, 2200-2208 (2023)
  6. Durach, M. Electromagnetic Scattering by Bianisotropic Spheres. Appl. Sci. 13, 5169 (2023)

Funding

Current Grants

  1. NSF proposal “RUI: Subwavelength Electromagnetism in Multihyperbolic Metamaterials” – $238,140 – pending
  2. HU-RIZON 2025 (Hungary) proposal: “METAOPTIQIP — Metamaterials for Optimized Quantum Information Processing” – $66,785 – pending

Previous Grants

  1. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant subaward from Norfolk State University “Effects of environment on dense arrays of electric and magnetic emitters; Theoretical analysis and support in numerical simulations” (2020-2021) – $11,000
  2. NSF-funded Blue Waters Internship Award (2014-2019) – $19,000

Research Group

Postdoc

  • David Keene

Former Students

  • Reed Hodges
  • Thomas Mulkey
  • Morgan Laballe
  • Maxwell Wallace
  • Felix Robert Williamson
  • Matthew LePain
  • David Keene