Thomas Böhm was member of the Gross group at WMI as a Master and Ph.D. Student between 2011 and 2017.

Master Thesis: Raman-Streuung an unkonventionellen Supraleitern (2012)
Ph.D. Thesis: The case for spin-fluctuation induced pairing in Ba_1-xK_xFe₂As₂ (2017)

In his Ph.D. thesis, which was supervised by apl. Prof. Dr. Rudi Hackl, Thomas Böhm was working on Raman scattering on unconvcentional superconductors such as the high temperature superconductors or the iron pnictides. The microscopic mechanism and the experimental identification of unconventional superconductivity is one of the most vexing problems of contemporary condensed matter physics. To address this important question, Thomas Böhm used Raman spectroscopy, which provides a new avenue for this quest by accessing the hierarchy of superconducting pairing propensities. In his thesis, he focussed on the doping-dependent study of competing pairing channels in Ba_1-xK_xFe_2As2 for 0.22 ≤ x ≤ 0.70. His results demonstrated the importance of spin fluctuations for Cooper pairing.