FWF Projekt ZK 91 "Isolated Strong Optical Magnetic Pulse Spectroscopy"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.
From 18.9. to 22.9.2022, Lorenz, Rahul, and Sebastian visited the 58th Symposium of Theoretical Chemistry in Heidelberg in Germany. Lorenz presented particle-in-cell simulations of azimuthally polarized beams interacting with metal apertures to generate isolated, amplified magnetic fields. Rahul’s poster showed spin-orbit complete active space second-order perturbation theory computations of Eu3+ ions. Sebastian presented nonadiabatic dynamics simulations using the SHARC software package. We enjoyed very nice talks, poster discussions, hikes, and social get-together.
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.
From 15th to 20th of May 2022, Elizaveta and Valentina visited the International Summer School SPECATMOS on the “Spectroscopy and Atmosphere: Measurements and Modelling”, which took place in Fréjus (France). There was a 1-week programme for lectures, tutorials, poster sessions, and networking.
Elizaveta presented a poster titled “Time-Resolved, State-Selective Spectroscopy of Laser-Ignited Plasma in Atmosphere”, where she also explained the work principles of a streak camera. We plan to use this precise spectroscopic tool to study luminescence of Eu3+ ions and other potential targets.
My name is Rahul Kumar Jingar, I finished my BS-MS studies in Chemistry and Physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune in 2021. During my Master’s studies, I worked on the prediction of magnetically induced current densities and molecular magnetic properties.
I am a part of Subproject C, where the main goal of my Ph.D. would be to develop accurate and computationally feasible methods for the prediction of magnetic dipole-allowed absorption and emission spectra of different target molecules.
In our first seminar, we invited Prof. Peter Banzer from the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Optics of Nano and Quantum Materials Group. He gave a very nice presentation about “The Magical World of Tight Focusing”
Hi to the iStOMPS team!
My name is Lorenz Grünewald, and I have just finished my Master’s studies in Physics at the University of Innsbruck. In my Master thesis project I performed studies on the absorption behaviour of nitrate anions in the UV region both via experimental and theoretical approaches.
I am looking forward to investigating the exclusive influence of the magnetic component of electromagnetic light on light-matter interactions from a theoretical as well as experimental point of view (Check out Subproject A and Subproject C if you want more information).
: Lorenz joins iStOMPSHello, my name is Elizaveta Gangrskaia, and I am happy to become a new PhD student in iStOMPS!
I finished a double degree programme at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (Finland) and at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia) and got an MSc in Physics and an MSc in Technology. In my Master’s thesis I was studying (both experimentally and theoretically) microparticle diamagnetic trapping to develop a levitodynamics platform. During my Bachelor’s studies, I was researching metal nanostructures on glass substrates for Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy applications.
Within Subproject A, I will work on experimental generation of enhanced isolated magnetic fields and their implementation for spectroscopic studies of lanthanide ions.
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.