• Radiative Heat Transfer on the Nanoscale
• Discrete Dipole Approximation
• Topological Phase Transitions in Plasmonic Systems
• Higher-Order Correlation Functions for Thermal Radiation
• Heat Transfer in Quantum Systems

Postdoctoral fellow of the Walter Benjamin Programme by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, eng. German Research Foundation)
2023 - 2025

PhD Fellowship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (eng. German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
2020 - 2023

Alireza Naeimi, Florian Herz, and Svend-Age Biehs: Surface-modes mediated long-range radiative heat transfer through a plasmonic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain, on arXiv.
DOI: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.08634

Florian Herz, Riccardo Messina, and Philippe Ben-Abdallah: Broadband directional thermal emission with anisothermal microsources, in Physical Review B 112, 035403 (2025).
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/43y3-rh2f

Florian Herz, Riccardo Messina, and Philippe Ben-Abdallah: Tomography of near-field radiative heat exchange between mesoscopic bodies immersed in a thermal bath, in Physical Review B 110, 125410 (2024).
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.125410

Florian Herz: Fluctuations of the energy density and intensity for arbitrary objects in an arbitrary environment, in Physical Review B 108, 115430 (2023).
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.115430

Florian Herz and Svend-Age Biehs: Thermal radiation and near-field thermal imaging of a plasmonic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain, in Applied Physics Letters 121, 181701 (2022).
DOI: doi.org/10.1063/5.0123515

Florian Herz and Svend-Age Biehs: Generalized coupled dipole method for thermal far-field radiation, in Physical Review B 105, 205422 (2022).
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.205422

Florian Herz and Svend-Age Biehs: Dipole model for far-field thermal emission of a nanoparticle above a planar substrate, in Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 266, 107572 (2021).
DOI: doi.org/10.1016/jqsrt.2021.10757

Florian Herz, Christoph Kathmann, and Svend-Age Biehs: General trace formula for heat flux fluctuations, in Europhysics Letters 130, 44003 (2020).
DOI: doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/130/44003

Florian Herz and Svend-Age Biehs: Green-Kubo relation for thermal radiation in non-reciprocal systems, in Europhysics Letters 127, 4 (2019).
DOI: doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/127/44001

Florian Herz, Zhenghua An, Susumu Komiyama, and Svend-Age Biehs: Revisiting the Dipole Model for a Thermal Infrared Near-Field Spectroscope, in Physical Review Applied 10, 044051 (2018).
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.10.044051

Broadband directional thermal emission with anisothermal microsources,
PIERS,
November 2025, Chiba, Japan

Tomography of near-field radiative heat exchange between mesoscopic bodies immersed in a thermal bath,
NanoRad,
July 2024, Sapporo, Japan

Generalized coupled dipole method for thermal far-field radiation,
Journées Plénières du GDR NAME,
November 2023, Rennes, France

Generalized coupled dipole method for thermal far-field radiation,
745. WE-Heraeus-Seminar – Photon, Phonon, and Electron Transitions in Coupled Nanoscale Systems,
September 2022, Bad Honnef, Germany

Generalized coupled dipole method for thermal far-field radiation,
Konferenz Nanoscale and Microscale Heat Transfer VII,
June 2022, Palermo, Italy

Revisiting the Dipole Model for a Thermal Infrared Near-Field Spectroscope,
DPG Spring Meeting,
March 2019, Regensburg, Germany

Tomography of near-field radiative heat exchange between meso-scopic bodies immersed in a thermal bath,
Thermics and Nanophotonics: from Basics Concepts to Applications,
May 2024, Les Houches, France

Tomography of near-field radiative heat exchange between meso-scopic bodies immersed in a thermal bath,
Nanomaterials for Energy, GDR NAME,
March 2024, Palaiseau, France

Generalized coupled dipole method for thermal far-field radiation,
PIERS,
June 2023, Prague, Czech Republic

Generalized coupled dipole method for thermal far-field radiation,
MONACOSTE summer school,
May 2022, Fréjus, France

Dipole model for far-field thermal emission of a nanoparticle above a planar substrate,
DPG Spring meeting,
March 2021, online

Green-Kubo relation for thermal radiation in non-reciprocal systems,
E-MRS fall meeting,
September 2019, Warsaw, Poland

Generalized coupled dipole method and higher order coherence theory for near- and far-field thermal radiation
(Oldenburg, March 2023, supervisor: PD Dr. Svend-Age Biehs and Prof. Martin Holthaus)

Untersuchungen zur Green-Kubo-Relation für Wärmestrahlung im Nah- und Fernfeld im Rahmen der makroskopischen Quantenelektrodynamik
(Oldenburg, September 2019, supervisor: PD Dr. Svend-Age Biehs and Prof. Martin Holthaus)

Wärmeabstrahlung eines Nanoteilchens oberhalb eines dielektrischen Substrats
(Oldenburg, October 2017, supervisor: PD Dr. Svend-Age Biehs and Prof. Martin Holthaus)