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Project leader
Expertise: Atomic and Molecular Physics, Quantum Chemistry, Laser-atom and laser-molecule interactions, Unbound systems, Surfaces and Solids, Metal clusters and fullerenes, Dynamical processes, Radiation damage.
Research interests: Time-dependent fully resolved description of molecular ionization dynamics
Electronic structure and fragmentation dynamics of highly charged fullerenes, clusters and biomolecules and molecular dynamics on metal surfaces.
Senior Researchers
Expertise:
Weak interactions in period systems and rovibrational spectroscopy of helium clusters.
Electronic structure calculations in gas phase and solid state.
Statistical mechanics applied to the fragmentation of excited molecules.
Wave packet propagation methods applied to study electron dynamics in surfaces interacting with laser fields.
Expertise: Expert in the ab initio quantum mechanical treatment of complex molecules and surfaces.
Research interests: Theoretical studies of the interaction of molecules of biological interest with metal cations. Reactions of interest in atmospheric chemistry. Structure and properties of fullerenes. Fragmentation of highly charged and excited clusters. Interaction of molecules with surfaces.
Expertise: Expert in theoretical and computational methods of atomic physics, molecular physics, and theoretical chemistry. In particular: representation of scattering states in multielectronic systems, and non-perturbative radiation-matter interaction.
Research interests: Development of theoretical methods, ab-initio numerical tools, and analytical models for the representation of the electronic continuum in atoms and molecules and for the solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. Attosecond coherent control of autoionizing states. Time-resolved investigation of correlated electron dynamics, with particular reference to multiply excited states in atoms and to molecular Auger decay and core-hole dynamics. Non-adiabatic effects in molecular photoionization.
Expertise: Ab initio quantum chemical modeling of molecular ground and excited states. Semiclassical simulation of photoinitiated nonadiabatic processes.
Research interests: Organic and biological photochemistry (photosensitized singlet oxygen generation, photoinduced proton transfer, bond photodissociations…). Highly excited states. Ground state reactivity. Study of the bond and bond perturbations in ion-molecule complexes.
Expertise: Expert in the ab initio quantum mechanical treatment of complex molecules and surfaces.
Research interests: Nanochemistry, Periodic systems and Surface dynamics.
Expertise: Density functional theory in gas phase and solid state.
Methods based on statistical mechanics applied to the fragmentation dynamics of excited molecules.
Wave packet propagation methods applied to study electron dynamics in surface physics.
Research interests: Fragmentation dynamics of highly excited clusters and biomolecules.
Electronic and vibrational excitation in molecules and nanostructures deposited on metal surfaces.
Theoretical description of reactivity in organic chemistry.
Expertise: Simulation and control of quantum and semiclassical dynamics evaluating the non-adiabatic processes including spin-orbit and laser couplings
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Expertise: Expert in ab initio calculations for multielectronic systems and in the development of high performing computational codes.
Research interests: Femto- and attosecond imaging of molecular multiple ionization.
Time-resolved electron and nuclear dynamics using free electron lasers and ultra-short pulses
Expertise: Simulating and modeling the response of atoms and molecules to strong laser fields, laser filamentation and the higher-order Kerr effect, high harmonic spectroscopy of atoms and molecules, coupled electron-nuclear dynamics at conical intersections in polyatomic molecules
Research interest: Imaging and controlling electron and nuclear dynamics in molecules induced by strong, ultrashort laser pulses
PhD Students
Research interest: Imaging and controlling the coupled electron-nuclei dynamics in molecular autoionization
Thesis Title: Studies of electron dynamics in hydrogen-like molecules in attosecond scale (high-energy processes and inclusion of non-adiabatic terms)
Research interest: Imaging and controlling the coupled electron-nuclei dynamics in molecular autoionization
Thesis Title: Molecular double ionization and single ionization by strong laser pulses
Research interest: Modelling of dynamics of molecules subject to intense laser pulses on atto second time scale
Thesis Title: Dynamics of ionization and dissociation of small molecules
Research interest: High harmonic spectroscopy of coupled electron-nuclear dynamics in neutral molecules. Attosecond coherent control.
Thesis Title: Ultrafast charge migration upon photoinization of small molecules and biomolecules using attosecond pulses
Expertise: Electron dynamics, strong field dynamics
Research interest: Clarify the role of electronic correlation and vibronic coupling on core-hole, inner-valence and valence-hole migration dynamics and relaxation mechanism in poly-electronic atoms and small molecules under the action of external ultrashort driving electromagnetic pulses. Accurate description of scattering states in poly-electronic systems.
Thesis Title: Photoelectron spectroscopy of atoms and molecules with novel light sources
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Thesis Title: Photoelectron spectroscopy of atoms and molecules with novel light sources
Associated members
Expertise: Ab initio quantum chemical calculations on excited states. Quantum classical simulations on the deactivation of photoexcited systems.
Research interest: Photochemistry of sulfur substituted DNA bases, Singlet Triplet non adiabatic dynamics.
Project managers
SYS managers
Expertise: Simulation and control of quantum and semiclassical dynamics evaluating the non-adiabatic processes including spin-orbit and laser couplings
Expertise: Expert in ab initio calculations for multielectronic systems and in the development of high performing computational codes.
Research interests: Femto- and attosecond imaging of molecular multiple ionization.
Time-resolved electron and nuclear dynamics using free electron lasers and ultra-short pulses
Former members
PhD awarded on December 14th, 2015
Thesis Title: Coherence in molecular photoionization
Under XChem project, he worked on : Molecular photoionization. Ultrafast electron dynamics induced by atto- and femtosecond laser pulses.
Expertise: Quantum mechanics. Atomic and molecular physics. Theoretical modelling of light-matter interaction.
PhD awarded on May 8, 2015
Thesis Title: Single ionization of the hydrogen molecule induced by pump-probe techniques with ultrashort laser pulses
Under XChem project, he worked on: Imaging and controlling the coupled electron-nuclei dynamics in molecular autoionization.
He left the project on November 30th, 2015.
Expertise: Electron-ion coincidence spectroscopy and basic ab initio quantum chemical modeling
Research interests: Photofragmentation dynamics of small molecules
PhD awarded on December 15th, 2015
Thesis Title: Attosecond spectroscopy of autoionizing states
Under XChem project, he worked on: Attosecond interferometric spectroscopy and coherent control of doubly excited states in Helium by means of soft X-ray pulse trains in conjunction with intense infra-red dressing fields.
Expertise: Attosecond science, ultrafast electron dynamics. Atomic physics of unbound systems, pulsed lasers, electron dynamics.
Expertise: Expert in ab-initio computations for time-dependent problems and in semiclassical dynamics. Interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with atoms and molecules.
Research interests: Strong-field dynamics of atomic and molecular systems induced by femtosecond laser pulses. Electron and nuclear dynamics in atoms and molecules induced by ultrashort laser pulses and pulse trains.
Expertise: Quantum Chemistry. Atomic Collision Theory. Electronic Structure of few electron atoms and molecules.
High-precision ab initio calculations in atomic electronic structure. Atomic and Molecular Photoionization and photofragmentation. Resonant states in atoms and molecules. Laser-atom and laser-molecule interactions.
Research interests: Femto- and attosecond physics in atoms and molecules. Control and coherence in laser driven atomic and molecular dynamics. Plasma interactions in atoms and molecules.
PhD awarded on January 12th, 2016
Thesis Title: Study of diatomic molecules under short intense laser pulses
Under XChem project, he worked on: Pump-probe imaging of attosecond dynamics in molecules. Dynamics of small molecules in intense light fields (IR and XUV/Xray) and development of adequate theoretical approaches.
Expertise: Atomic and Molecular Physics, Strong Field Physics
Expertise: Development of ab initio complex scaling methods, essentials to extract differential ionization probabilities in multiple ionization of molecules.
Research interests: Methodology development for the numerical resolution of the Schrödinger equation with the aim of describing processes induced by ultrashort laser pulses.
Visiting researchers
Prof. Petek will visit Universidad Autonoma de Madrid by the end of October, 2014.
During his stay, he will participate in scientific discussions about the experiments wich have been carried out in his group, questioning the theoretical needs of current experiments on laser-molecule/surface interactions.
He will also give a lecture on “Multi-dimensional multi-photoemission at metal surfaces: Excitations and polaritons” during a special session organised by XChem project in the frame of the 16th Workshop on Dynamical Phenomena at Surfaces (WDPS16)
