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Welcome to our new postdoc Matthieu Guer!
Matthieu joins us from CEA Saclay in Paris, where he completed his PhD under the supervision of Thierry Ruchon and Romain Géneaux. He will be part of the team on the ERC Starting Grant project FASTER led by Christian Brahms.
We are delighted to share a new publication Nature Communications: Decoupling structural molecular dynamics from excited state lifetimes using few-femtosecond ultraviolet resonant dispersive waves. In this collaborative work with the group of Prof Dave Townsend, we exploit the few-femtosecond pulse duration of deep ultraviolet pulses generated via resonant dispersive wave emission to observe previously invisible dynamical processes in the morpholine molecule.
Welcome to our new postdoc Connor Clarke!
Connor graduated with a first-class MSci Chemistry and Mathematics degree at Durham University in 2020. He continued at Durham to obtain a PhD in Chemistry (2024), supervised by Prof. Jan Verlet. Connor’s doctoral studies largely focused on probing microsolvated nucleobase anions with frequency-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. In 2025, he joined the LUPO group to construct a new ultrafast beamline with spectroscopic applications as part of the ERC Starting Grant project FASTER led by Christian Brahms.
We are excited to announce that our contribution on high-energy soliton dynamics has been allocated a slot at this year’s CLEO Europe postdeadline session! Join us in Munich for the latest news on high-energy sub-cycle pulse + UV generation!
Our paper on Supercontinuum generation in a methane-filled hollow-core antiresonant fiber is among the January-March 2025 top downloads in Optics Letters! It’s encouraging to see our work gaining interest within the community - congratulations to Balazs and all co-authors!
Congratulations to Chris who has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. Funded with €2.5M, the FASTER project will bring attosecond time resolution to optical ultrafast spectroscopy in the ultraviolet, visible and infrared. As part of this project, two post-doc positions and up to three PhD studentships will be available starting in the summer of 2025 (for more details, see Join Us).
