
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
- Durach, M. Beyond Green’s Functions: Inverse Helmholtz and “Om” ॐ-Potential Methods for Macroscopic Electromagnetism in Isotropy-Broken Media. Photonics 12, 660 (2025)
- Tóth, E., Fekete, O.A., Bánhelyi, B. et al. Layered Babinet complementary patterns acting as asymmetric negative index metamaterial. Sci Rep 14, 29568 (2024).
- Durach, M. Biaxial Gaussian Beams, Hermite–Gaussian Beams, and Laguerre–Gaussian Vortex Beams in Isotropy-Broken Materials. Photonics 11, 1062 (2024)
- 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)
- 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)
- Durach, M. Electromagnetic Scattering by Bianisotropic Spheres. Appl. Sci. 13, 5169 (2023)
Funding
Current Grants
- NSF proposal “RUI: Subwavelength Electromagnetism in Multihyperbolic Metamaterials” – $238,140 – pending
- HU-RIZON 2025 (Hungary) proposal: “METAOPTIQIP — Metamaterials for Optimized Quantum Information Processing” – $66,785 – pending
Previous Grants
- 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
- 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