Anne L’Huiller
Anne L’Huillier’s research, which is both experimental and theoretical, is centred on the generation of high-order harmonics in gases and its applications. In the time domain, these harmonics correspond to a series of extremely short light pulses, in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range and with a duration of a few tens or hundreds of attoseconds. Her research concerns the development and optimisation of attosecond sources and the use of this radiation for the study of ultrafast (electron) dynamics. Attosecond light sources can be designed for different goals, e.g. towards high intensity for non-linear pump/probe experiments or towards high repetition rate for applications in condensed matter physics. Another active research area for Anne L’Huillier and her group is the study of the electron dynamics of atomic systems, following a photoionisation event induced by the absorption of an attosecond light pulse.
Reinhard Dörner
Main Research Topics: Atomic and Molecular Physics. Few-Body dynamics. Ion Atom collisions (keV-GeV) (GSI, IKF), Electron-Atom and Antiproton-Atom collisions (CERN), Atomic and molecular physics with synchrotron radiation (Hasylab Hamburg, Bessy, Berlin , ESRF Grenoble, ALS-Berkeley), atomic and molecular physics in strong laser fields. Kinematically complete experiments using COLTRIMS and reaction microscopes.
Simone Techert
Simone Techert is Leading Scientist in the group “Chemical Structural Dynamics” at DESY and professor for ultra-short pulsed X-rays physics at the University of Göttingen within the network of the “Göttingen Research Campus”. She develops methods for time-resolved X-ray experiments and their applications and optimisation for analysis of chemical molecular processes and of structural dynamic and relations in chemical reactions (“filming” chemical reactions in real time). Her research objective is a broader understanding of energy transformation processes within the investigated complex chemical systems and how these influence the motion of the molecules.
Mark Dean
Mark Dean leads the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) program in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research focuses on quantum materials, including high temperature superconductors, strongly spin-orbit coupled materials, complex oxide heterostructures, non-equilibrium states and topology in crystalline materials.
Junko Yano
Junko Yano is the Division Director of the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division. Her main research interest are Structure and function of active metal sites in metalloenzymes, X-ray crystallography and X-ray spectroscopy using an X-ray free electron laser, Application of X-ray-based techniques to artificial photosynthetic systems such as light-absorbers and catalysts to study electron transfer and catalytic reaction mechanisms in situ, Application of synchrotron X-ray absorption/diffraction methods for the analysis of molecular structures, crystal structures, and electronic structures of inorganic catalysts, Water oxidation reaction in natural photosynthesis, Structure and function relationship using vibrational spectroscopy and EPR spectroscopy in organic/organometallic materials.
Ursula Keller
When Ursula Keller became ETH Zurich’s first tenured woman professor of physics in 1993, she set out to push laser technology to its limits, making light pulses ever shorter and more stable, and using them to reveal the hidden dynamics of the quantum world. Her groundbreaking invention of semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) transformed solid-state lasers. Ultrashort “femtosecond” pulses – lasting just a millionth of a billionth of a second – soon became standard tools in laboratories and industry.
Zhengtang Thao