Richard Hildner received his PhD in our group in 2008. Subsequently he joined the group of Prof. Niek van Hulst in Casteldefels in Spain, where he was involved in the development of ultrafast single molecule techniques. In 2011 he returned to Bayreuth and headed a junior research group in the field of single-polymer spectroscopy.
Since October 2018 he holds a Professor position for physics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.