His doctoral research involved optical spectroscopy of transition metal impurities in II-VI semiconductors.
[1] In 1989, he became the group leader of the "Materials Lab" at the Institute of Solid State Physics at Technische Universität Berlin, which was later reorganized as the Center of Nanophotonics in 2004.
[2] His scientific work focuses particularly on the structural and optical properties of quantum dots based on II-VI[3] and III-V[4][5] compound semiconductors and their epitaxy.
Using active GaAs-based III-V-quantum dots, novel devices such as lasers and single-photon emitters could be realised at the Institute of Solid State Physics with his involvement.
[7] Pohl is member of the German Physical Society and since 2017 serves as a co-editor of the Springer Series in Materials Science.