Mirko Cinchetti is head of the group Experimentelle Physik VI - coherent spin phenomena in solids - at the TU Dortmund University. The main goal of the group is to control the electronic and magnetic properties of solids on the shortest possible timescale. In particular, we use femtosecond laser pulses to achieve ultrafast control of spin and charge excitations without energy dissipations, i.e. by exploiting coherent effects. The main experimental methods are: time-resolved optical/magneto-optical spectroscopy; and spin- and time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy with fs-optical and XUV pulses. The main material systems under study are: spin-textured/ magnetically ordered 2D electronic systems (2D semiconductors, topological insulators, quantum wells, …), and hybrid molecular spinterfaces.