UDG News Archive

We welcome Peter Miedaner as a new PostDoc in our group! During his time with us, Peter will study coherent nanoscale dynamics using ultrafast X-rays. His work will focus on developing new methods to excite and probe these dynamics, and applying them to the study of ultrafast processes in magnetic materials.

A new study titled “Mid-infrared element-specific selective manipulation of the ultrafast magneto-optical Kerr effect dynamics in the ferrimagnet FeCr₂S₄”, published by Davide Soranzio and co-authors, shows how mid-infrared pulses can reshape the ultrafast magnetic behaviour of the ferrimagnet FeCr₂S₄.

We welcome Thomas Metzger as a new PostDoc in our group. He will be partially involved in the project about dynamics connected with order-disorder vs. displacive effects in condensed matter systems; and partially involved in the project about the effect of coherent phonon dynamics on THz properties.

We welcome Alicja Karpinska as a new PhD student in our group. She will be working on dynamics connected with order-disorder vs. displacive effects in condensed matter systems. Her goal is to use time-resolved x-ray diffraction and absorption spectroscopy to look at long- and short-range order dynamics to identify the length scale of order parameters through a phase transition.

We welcome Lukas Heckendorn as a new PhD student in our group. He will be working on developing an experimental method to quantitatively determine the transition type of the structural phase transition in a general crystalline material. Specifically, he will investigate the ultrafast dynamics of the short-range and the long-range order in Germanium Telluride and other crystalline materials undergoing a structural phase transition by using optical and x-ray probes.