Nina Rohringer is an Austrian physicist whose research concerns ultra-fast pulses from free-electron X-ray lasers, and their interactions with matter. She is a lead scientist at DESY, a professor at the University of Hamburg, and a faculty member of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, in Germany.
Education and career
editRohringer earned a diploma at TU Wien, in Vienna, in 2000. She continued there for a PhD, completed in 2005. Her dissertation was Quantitative test of time-dependent density functional theory: Two-electron systems in an external laser field.[1]
After postdoctoral research in the US at the Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and continued work as a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore, she became a group leader in the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden in 2011, also affiliated with the DESY Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg.[1]
After a 2015 reorganization, her group became part of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter. Since 2017 she has been a leading scientist at DESY and a professor at the University of Hamburg.[1] At the University of Hamburg, she is research group leader for Theory of ultrafast processes with X-ray light in the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences.[2] As well, she continues to hold an affiliation as former group leader and faculty member in the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter.[3]
Research
editIt was during Rohringer's postdoctoral research at Argonne that her research focus shifted from density functional theory to X-ray atomic physics.[4] While at Lawrence Livermore, she used the nearby Linac Coherent Light Source at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to energize high-pressure neon to lase, creating the first atomic X-ray laser, with a much more sharply defined frequency range than free-electron lasers.[5]
More recently her research with the European XFEL has used X-ray pulses to explore ionization in warm dense matter.[6]
Recognition
editRohringer was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2023, after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, "for outstanding theoretical concepts in the new field of non-linear X-ray science and experiments at X-ray free electron lasers".[7]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Nina Rohringer", Lead scientists, DESY, retrieved 2024-08-24
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Nina Rohringer", Institute for Theoretical Physics staff, University of Hamburg, retrieved 2024-08-24
- ^ "Nina Rohringer", People, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, retrieved 2024-08-24
- ^ Nina Rohringer joins CFEL's MPG-ASG, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 2011, retrieved 2024-08-24
- ^ Cho, Adrian (25 January 2012), "Physicists Squeeze X-Ray Laser Light Out of Atoms", Science, doi:10.1126/article.27806 (inactive 4 September 2024)
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2024 (link) - ^ "European X-ray laser explores a poorly understood state of matter", EurekAlert!, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 8 August 2024, retrieved 2024-08-24
- ^ "Fellows nominated in 2023", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, archived from the original on 2024-01-20
External links
edit- Theoretical and Ultrafast X-ray Science group at DESY
- Nina Rohringer publications indexed by Google Scholar