CFEL PhD student participates at Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Antonia Karamatskou, PhD student in the group of Prof. Dr. Robin Santra at CFEL, DESY,  will participate in  this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. The junior researcher belongs to the collaborative research centre (SFB) 925 “Light induced dynamics and control of correlated quantum systems” and works in the CFEL-DESY Theory Group. In a multistage process she was chosen out of hundreds of international candidates to take part in the meeting.

From 26 June to 3 July qualified junior researchers from all over the world will gather together at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. The aim of this event is not only scientific exchange but also networking. The meeting was launched in 1951  as a European initiative for reconciliation after World War II and will take place in 2015 for the 65th time. Subjects are the natural science disciplines of the Nobel Prize: chemistry, medicine and physics. 

Antonia Karamatskou carries out her research in the field of interactions of atoms with  intense light (from the optical range to X-rays). Through radiation atoms release electrons, they are  ionized. The researcher calculates for instance with what energy and in which direction these electrons are  emitted. The physicist contributed to proving  new and up to now unobserved quantum mechanical characteristics in the electron shell of a Xenon atom. Researching such characteristics can help to better understand light-induced phenomena in complex systems and to  uncover new possibilities in developing materials used in photonics and nanosciences.

For further details: www.lindau-nobel.org

For questions:

Antonia Karamatskou
Universität Hamburg und DESY
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science
Tel.: + 49 40 8998-6320
E-Mail: Antonia.Karamatskou@cfel.de

Prof. Dr. Robin Santra
Universität Hamburg und DESY
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science    
Tel. + 49 40 8998-6300
E-Mail: robin.santra@cfel.de
URL: http://theorie.physnet.uni-hamburg.de