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Nina Rohringer
Theory of ultrafast processes with X-ray light
Nina Rohringer's research interests include the fundamental processes of the interaction of ultrafast X-ray pulses of free-electron X-ray lasers with matter. Free-electron X-ray lasers, such as FLASH at DESY and the European XFEL, are sources of radiation in the X-ray range of the electromagnetic spectrum that produce high-intensity pulses of the duration of a few femtoseconds and are used to study the electronic structure of matter. The ultrafast pulse duration of these sources also allows time-resolved studies of the electron and core motion. A special focus of the research group is the study of stimulated emission processes in the X-ray range, e.g. amplification of X-ray radiation by stimulated emission or scattering at atomic transitions, as well as non-linear processes initiated by more than one X-ray photon. Advances in these investigations will ultimately lead to the development of new non-linear spectroscopic and imaging methods with X-radiation to provide information about the concerted motion of electrons and nuclei in physical and chemical processes (such as phase transformation, chemical reaction, catalysis, photosynthesis, etc.) win.
Academic career
| Since 2017 | Leading Scientist at DESY and professor of physics at the University of Hamburg |
| Since 2015 | Group leader of the Max Planck Research Group "Quantum Optics with X-Ray Light" at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Structure of Matter, CFEL, Hamburg |
| 2011-2015 | Group leader of the Max Planck Research Group "Quantum Optics with X-Ray Light", Max Planck Institute for Physics Complex Systems, Dresden and CFEL, Hamburg |
| 2009-2011 | Physicist in the group "Theory and Modeling", Department of Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA |
| 2007-2009 | Scientific assistant (postdoc) in the group "X-ray Science and Technology", Department of Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA |
| 2005-2007 | Research associate (postdoctoral) in the group "Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics", Department of Chemistry and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, USA |
| 2001-2005 | PhD at the Vienna University of Technology. Title of thesis: Quantitative test of time-dependent density functional theory: Two-electron systems in an external laser field |
| 1995-2000 | Diploma of Technical Physics at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria with two one-year study visits at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Title of the thesis: Semiclassical Aspects of the Quantum Hall Effect |
