Lou DiMauro
(Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
Fundamentals of strong field physics and high-harmonic generation
Seminar "Turning the table on strong field physics"
Louis F. DiMauro is Professor of Physics and Hagenlocker Chair at the Ohio State University. He received his BA (1975) from Hunter College, CUNY and his Ph.D. (1980) from University of Connecticut and was a postdoctoral fellow at SUNY, Stony Brook before arriving at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981. He joined the staff at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1988 rising to the rank of senior scientist. In 2004 he became faculty at The Ohio State University. He was awarded 2004 BNL/BSA Science & Technology Prize, 2012 OSU Distinguish Scholar Award, the 2013 OSA Meggers Prize and the 2017 APS Schawlow Prize in Laser Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Optica and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research interest span experimental ultra-fast and strong-field physics. In 1993, he and his collaborators introduced the widely accepted semi-classical model in strong-field physics.
François Légaré
(INRS-ALLS, Varennes, Canada)
High-power laser technologies for ultrafast X-ray science
Seminar "A novel approach for pulse compression based on multidimensional solitary states in hollow core fiber"
Prof. François Légaré (Fellow Optica and APS) is a chemical physicist who specializes in developing novel approaches for ultrafast science and technologies, as well as biomedical imaging with nonlinear optics (Ph.D. in chemistry, 2004 – co-supervised by Profs. André D. Bandrauk and Paul B. Corkum). Since 2013, he is Full Professor at the Energy Materials Telecommunications Research Centre of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS-EMT) and director of the Advanced Laser Light Source, which is a member of LaserNetUS. He has contributed to more than 180 articles in peer reviewed journals and was invited to more than 70 conferences and workshops. Furthermore, he is fostering the transfer of technologies to Canadian spin-off companies, including few-cycle Inc. (founded in 2013) and FemtoGate (founded in 2019).
Christophe Nicolas
(Synchrotron SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin, France)
A journey all along a photon beamline: aligning scientific needs with technological capabilities
Seminar "Chemistry triggered by high energy photons "
Christophe Nicolas obtained his PhD in 2002 on state selected ion-molecule reactions involved in the Titan ionosphere, under the joint supervision of Dr. Dutuit (France) and Prof. Gerlich (Germany). He then worked for 3 years as post-doctoral fellow at the Advanced Light Source (Berkely, USA), under the supervision of Prof. Leone and Dr Ahmed. His postdoctoral work was focused on vacuum-ultraviolet photoionization of neutral biomolecules and metallic oxides created by laser desorption or ablation. Since January 2006, he works as a beamline scientist at Synchrotron SOLEIL (Paris-Saclay, France) at the soft X-ray PLEIADES beamline, in the research group of Dr. Bozek, formerly led by Dr. Miron. Dr. Nicolas has launched several new research directions at SOLEIL using synchrotron radiation and currently oversees electron spectroscopy and coincidence studies of biomolecules in condensed phase using an under-vacuum liquid jet technique.
Christian Ott
(Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany)
The ultrafast response of nonlinear light-matter interaction: learning from spectral line shapes
Seminar "Probing and controlling resonant transitions in atoms and molecules with intense XUV FELs"
Dr. Christian Ott is staff scientist and group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, in the Division “Quantum Dynamics and Control”, working with Prof. Thomas Pfeifer. Christian received his doctoral degree in 2012 from Heidelberg University on attosecond interferometric techniques and strong-field control of two-electron dynamics. During his two years postdoc with Profs. Stephen Leone and Daniel Neumark at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, he studied strongly correlated materials by means of attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, sponsored by a Feodor Lynen postdoctoral fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. Christian is leading research efforts which include the fundamentals of absorption spectroscopy, resonant light-matter interaction and few-electron dynamics in small atoms and molecules and their ultrafast control, employing both lab-based (lasers & HHG) and large-facility (FEL) ultrafast light sources.
Giuseppe Sansone
(University of Freiburg, Germany)
Attosecond photoionization using FEL and HHG sources
Seminar "Attosecond metrology and coherent control at FELs"
Giuseppe Sansone received his PhD in 2004 at the Politecnico Milano, Italy, where he continued his career first as assistant professor and then as associate professor. In 2007, he visited the Laser Technology Laboratory RIKEN, Japan with a Short-Term Postdoc Fellowship. In 2009-2010, he received an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to work in the group of the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg on the combination of coincidence spectroscopy with attosecond sources. He also contributed to the development of the Extreme-Light-Infrastructure Attosecond Light Pulse Source in Szeged, Hungary, initially as division head of the secondary sources and then as scientific advisor.
In 2016, he became full professor for experimental physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University where he leads the Attosecond and Strong Field Physics group. His research interests are focused on attosecond metrology at free-electron lasers and on the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in molecules using coincidence spectroscopy.
Sangeeta Sharma
(Max Born Institute, Berlin, Germany)
Transient x-ray spectroscopy for ultrafast magnetism: theoretical description
Seminar "Femto- Phono- magnetism"
Sangeeta Sharma is a solid state physicist. She got her PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2000. She did 3 post-docs between 2000-2012 in Graz Austria, Uppsala Sweden and Freie University Berlin. In 2012 she became group leader at Max Planck Institute in Halle. Now she works as head of condensed matter theory in Max Born Institute in Berlin. She is one of the main developers of the Elk code (elk.sourceforge.net) and is author of 110 papers. Her research interests are ab-initio treatment of light-matter interaction, laser induced spin and charge dynamics using time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT), density and density matrix functional theory for strong correlations in extended solids, two dimensional materials – Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) and graphene, superconductivity, and numerical methods and code development: http://elk.sourceforge.net.
Paris Tzallas (FORTH-Crete, Heraklion, Greece)
Quantum optics in intense laser-matter interactions
Seminar "Strong laser fields and their power to generate optical Schrödinger cat states"
Dr. Paraskevas (Paris) Tzallas, is Research Director at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion (Crete), Greece. He is leader of the Attosecond Science and Technology activity of FORTH-IESL, and Scientific Advisor at Extreme Light Infrastructure for Attosecond Science (ELI-ALPS), Szeged, Hungary.
He studied physics at the University of Ioannina in Greece. He continued his PhD studies at the same University in close collaboration with Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK. He received his PhD in 2002 on the molecular photo-dissociation using short laser pulses. Then, he switched his research interests to atomic physics and optical pulse engineering. In 2002, he moved as a post doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany (with which he is in close collaboration up to now), with his research to be dedicated on attosecond science. In 2005 he moved as researcher at FORTH, rising on 2017 to the rank of the Research Director. In 2014 he joint, as Scientific Advisor, the Extreme Light Infrastructure for Attosecond Science (ELI-ALPS), Szeged, Hungary. The emphasis of his research in the last 20 years is in attosecond science and strong laser-field physics, while in the last 8 years, the main part of his research is devoted on the quantum optical description of strong-field laser matter interactions and the connection of Strong laser-field physics and attosecond science with quantum optics and quantum technologies.
Morgane Vacher (Nantes Université, France)
Ultrafast electron and nuclear dynamics in molecules
Seminar "From photochemistry to attochemistry and X-ray spectroscopy simulations "
Morgane Vacher received her Ph.D. degree in theoretical and computational chemistry in 2016 from Imperial College London (United Kingdom), supervised by Profs. Mike Robb and Mike Bearpark. She worked then as a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University (Sweden), within the group of Prof. Roland Lindh. In late 2019, she was appointed as a CNRS researcher within the CEISAM laboratory in Nantes (France). Her research interests include theoretical photochemistry and nonadiabatic dynamics of molecular excited states using direct ab initio methods and the application of attosecond science to chemistry. In 2020 she was awarded the Etoile Montante research grant from the Région Pays de la Loire. In 2021, she was a member of the Early Career Advisory Board of JACS Au. She was recently awarded an ERC Starting Grant to work on theoretical attochemistry.
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