FWF Projekt ZK 91 "Isolated Strong Optical Magnetic Pulse Spectroscopy"From 21 to 27 November 2023, I visited Dr. Xinhua Xie, one of our project collaborators, at PSI (Switzerland). On the one hand, during that week I participated in an experiment on X-ray-induced Augen ionization of molecules. On the other hand, I learned a lot of background information about free electron lasers (FELs). In addition to academics, the SwissFEL and SLS tour guided by Dr. Xinhua was also very impressive.
On July, 12th our team enjoyed a beautiful sunny summer day going hiking in one of the last pieces of the original Viennese Woods – that is the Lainzer Tiergarten (or Zoo), located on the outskirts of the city. Equipped with some good sandwiches and a lot of fun and joy, we made a “big round” in this special recreational area. Since Ale lives in Hütteldorf, as a local, she proposed the following route (highlighted below), entailing some nice panoramic view points, such as the “Hubertuswarte” (see first picture below) and the “Kaiserwiese” (second picture).
The Lainzer Zoo offers a unique natural landscape with a wealth of flora and fauna — e.g., there are generally lots of wild boars — as well as cultural-historical exhibitions in the Hermesvilla. In other words, it is a place that offers relaxation, experience in nature and education and, as you can judge from our smiles, our iStOMPS team enjoyed this excursion very much!
iStOMPS on top of the “Hubertus Warte”
Panoravic viewpoint of the “Kaiserwiese”
From 7.2.2023 to 22.2.2023 I was performing a research stay in the group of our collaborator Prof. Carlos Hernández-García at the University of Salamanca (Spain). Together with Rodrigo Martín-Hernández, a PhD student of his photonics group, I was performing further scans for the magnetic field enhancement and electric field suppression of different aperture shapes. Besides science, I also had the opportunity to do little sightseeing tours in the marvellous city of Salamanca and try out my (basic) Spanish speaking skills.
Gracias por la agradable estancia a mis queridos colegas Carlos y Rodrigo y a iStOMPS!
Lorenz
The ACS Photonics article published by Edgar Kaksis and Valentina Shumakova about stimulated Raman scattering for the production of XUV radiation produced quite a lot of Media attention. Have a look for yourself at the News page of the TU Wien Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology!
More Media echo can be found at Altmetrics.
On 29.9.2022, Lorenz, Rahul, and Sebastian were joining the European Researchers Night in Vienna and showed young and old guests of the public how to build and use a simple spectrometer to split up visible light and understand the colors of gems and crystals.
Today, Edgar Kaksis defended his thesis titled “Scaling of peak and average power in femtosecond ytterbium amplifiers” and obtained his PhD with distinction. Congratulations to Edgar!
Lorenz won the prize for the best talk at the DoSChem Panel A retreat that took place on 31.5.-2.6.2022 at the H2O Therme in Bad Waltersdorf, Styria. We are very proud of Lorenz!
The Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem) is the doctoral training program in chemistry at the University of Vienna and organized in three panels. Lorenz and Rahul belong to Panel A, which includes physical, materials, and theoretical chemistry and biology.
The FWF introduced the two last Zukunftskollegs in their News Portal on 2nd of June 2021.
University of Vienna and TU Wien also presented iStOMPS in their News Portals.