Two new projects of OPTIMAS young scientists

11. June 2012

Dr. Jingyi Mao, one of this year's two winners of the University of Kaiserslautern for a postdoctoral project of the Carl Zeiss Foundation at her current workplace, the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China).

Carl Zeiss Foundation approves the research proposals of two postdoctoral scientists

In this year's funding program for promoting scientific research, the Carl Zeiss Foundation has recently approved the projects of two postdoctoral scientists at the University of Kaiserslautern. Both excellent young scientists, Dr. Jingyi Mao and Dr. Yevgenij Nosenko, are members of the state research center OPTIMAS. The projects are closely connected to the Kaiserslautern Center for Advanced Spin Engineering CASE that is currently under review as cluster of excellence.

In her project, the physicist Dr. Jingyi Mao plans to develop new methods for ultrafast magnetization dynamics of complex magnetic materials. For this, a novel femtosecond light source in the soft X-ray regime (EUV) is instrumental, which was developed in the physics department of the University of Kaiserslautern in the laboratory of Professor Martin Aeschlimann and Dr. Stefan Mathias, in collaboration with the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Jingyi Mao has just recently concluded her dissertation at the highly renowned Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China). She will come to Kaiserslautern in fall 2012, where her husband has been member of the physics department since 2009. It is the declared intention of the University of Kaiserslautern to pave the way for "dual-career couples" in order to advance both careers in Kaiserslautern.

The new research project by Dr. Yevgeniy Nosenko deals with infrared multiphoton spectroscopy and transient photofragmentation for the investigation of mass selected ions. In this project, Dr. Nosenko, who came from Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main to Kaiserslautern, will further develop a multi-laser measurement method. This method also finds application within the Transregio / Collaborative Research Initiative 3MET (DFG SFB/TRR 88), for example, in the characterization of magnetic molecules. He will perform his work at the University of Kaiserslautern in the chemistry department, in the research group for cluster chemistry, headed by Professor Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg and PD Dr. Christoph Riehn.