Nadja Bigall is a PhD student at the department for physical chemistry in Dresden, Germany. She graduated in January 2006 after having studied physics at the LMU Munich and after having written her diploma thesis in the Group of Prof. Dr. Horst Weller, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Hamburg, Germany on superparamagnetic nanocrystals. Her main research interests are the surface enhanced Raman Effect and surface enhanced fluorescence on substrates consisting of periodically arranged metallo-dielectric materials.