Postdoc positions Gas-phase Attosecond Molecular Dynamics at Free Electron Lasers, Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany

The Max Planck Institute offer new opportunities for postdoc projects in the area of experimental strong-field physics and ultra-fast light-matter interaction, collaborating at external FEL beamtimes and working with state-of-the-art in-house laser light sources. We are interested in understanding and steering/controlling the fundamental laser-driven (nonlinear) quantum dynamics of electron motion within small atoms and molecules. Hereby we pursue a bottom-up approach with the goal to obtain a complete understanding of the correlated inter-action and dynamics of charged particles in small quantum systems at their natural attosecond to femto-second time scale.
Within our ongoing FEL projects we utilize intense XUV and x-ray radiation to measure ultrafast molecular dynamics with electronic state sensitivity [1,2], extracted from time-resolved and nonlinear XUV/x-ray transmission and absorption spectroscopy. In the future we aim to push the frontier of these investigations to the natural attosecond timescale of electron motion. Enabling a new perspective on spectro-temporal dynamics, one key ingredient is hereby the shot-by-shot tagging of FEL spectra at high-repetition rate [3]. You will take a strong role in performing the data analysis and scientific interpretation, both before, during and after planned new FEL beamtimes, as well as coordinating various efforts within the collaborating experimental and theory teams.

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