VA
EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow
Department of Physics, Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London
SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom
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Background
I am a theoretician
who joined the Quantum Optics and Laser Science group of the Blackett
laboratory in 2010. I study fundamental electronic processes that occur in
molecules and clusters following excitation and/or ionisation, for example by
a laser pulse. These electronic rearrangements, such as Auger decay,
interatomic (intermolecular) Coulombic decay (ICD) and others, are driven by
electron-electron interaction and are the basic manifestation of the electron
correlation in nature. The decay processes lead to emission of electrons and
often also to dissociation of a molecule or a cluster. They are of high
practical importance for estimation and understanding of the radiation damage
done by high-frequency radiation. I use the first principles many-electron
theoretical methods to investigate the complex dynamics of the known
electronic rearrangements and to predict new physical phenomena of this
type.
I completed my PhD on atoms and molecules in high intensity laser fields in
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 2001 with Nimrod Moiseyev. In
2003 I moved to Heidelberg University (Germany), where I worked with Lorenz
S. Cederbaum on the theory of ICD in clusters. In 2007 I was granted an
independent research position at the Finite Systems department (Director: Jan
Michael Rost) of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
(Dresden, Germany). In 2009 I was awarded the Career Acceleration Fellowship
by the EPSRC to start a new theoretical group at the Blackett laboratory of
Imperial College London.Currently two PhD positions in my group are
available