Prof. Dr. Marc Vrakking
marc.vrakking(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1200
A: Attosecond Physics
Haus A, 2.26
Position
Director at the Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik
und Kurzzeitspektroskopie im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
Professor for Ultrashort Physics at the
Freie Universität Berlin
Curriculum vitae
| since 2010 | W3-S-Professor for Ultrashort Physics at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| since 2010 | Director at the Max-Born-Institute |
| since 2004 | Adjunct Professor Radboud University Nijmegen |
| 2000-2011 | Tenured groupleader position at AMOLF |
| 1995-1996 | Fellowship from the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 1994-1995 | Postdoctoral researcher, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada |
| 1992-1994 | Postdoctoral researcher, University of California at Berkeley, USA |
| 1987-1992 | Phd Degree from the University of California at Berkeley (USA) under the supervision of Prof. Yuan T. Lee |
| 1981-1987 | Master´s Degree at the Eindhoven University of Technology |
Scholarships and Prices
| 2005 | NWO VICI Award |
| 1995 | KNAW Fellowship |
| 1993 | Marie Curie Individual Research Training Fellowship |
Recent Grants
| 2012 | FP7 Research for SMEs project FLAME “Femtosecond Light Amplifiers in the Megahertz regime” |
| 2012 | FP7 European Industrial Doctorate program JMAP “Joint Max Born Institute - Amplitude Phd Program” (2 partners) |
| 2012 | ERA Chemistry “Time-resolved molecular dynamics using XUV ionization of aligned molecules” |
| 2011 | Einstein Foundation “Attosecond Electron Dynamics” (4 partners) |
| 2011 | Leibniz SAW Scheme “High average power ultrashort laser pulses in the near and mid-infrared by chirped optical parametric amplification |
| 2010 | Leibniz Graduate school "Dynamics in New Light" (co-proposer and co-coordinator) |
| 2009 | FOM Projectruimte 'Attosecond Plasmonics' |
| 2008 | FP7 Initial Training network ATTOFEL "Ultrafast Dynamics using Attosecond and XUV Free Electron Laser Sources" (coordinator of successful proposal) |
| 2007 | FP7 Industry-Academia Partnership Progrom FLUX "Femtosecond lasers for the generation of ultrafast XUV pulses" (coordinator of successful proposal) |
| 2007 | Successfully applied for beamtime at FLASH Free Electron Laser facility (2007, 2009) and FELICE Free Electron Laser facility (2009) |
Selected International Activities
| 2014- | Referee for European Research Council Executive Agency |
| 2014- | Deputy chair of the atomic physics section of the German Physical Society (DPG) |
| 2012-2016 | Coordinator FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network ‘JMAP’ (Joint Max Born Institute - Amplitude Phd Program) |
| 2009-2015 | Coordinator FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network 'ATTOFEL' (Ultrafast Dynamics using Attosecond and XUV Free Electron Laser sources) |
| 2008-2014 | Coordinator of FP7 Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnership Program 'FLUX' (Femtosecond Lasers for the Generation of Ultrashort XUV Pulses) |
| 2004-2008 | Coordinator of FP6 Marie Curie Research Training Network 'XTRA' (Ultrashort XUV Pulses for Time-Resolved and Non-Linear Applications) |
| 2007- | Member, International Scientific Advisory Board Manchester Photon Science Institute |
| 2011- | Member of XFEL SQS Steering and Advisory Committee |
Organisation of international conferences and editorial board memberships
| Editor-in-chief of Journal of Physics B (2018-present) | |
| Advisory Board 2012 Gordon Research Conference on Photoions, Photoionization & Photodetachment | |
| Member of programme committee ICOMP conferences 2005, 2008 and 2011 | |
| Member of programme committee Attosecond conference 2009 and 2011 | |
| Member of programme committee Dynamical Imaging Conference 2009 | |
| Member of the board of the European Group of Atomic Spectroscopists (EGAS) (2006-present). | |
| Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physics B (2008-present) | |
| Editor of Chemical Physics special issue on Attosecond Molecular Science (with A.D. Bandrauk and J. Manz). |
MBI Publikationen
- Recombination dynamics of clusters in intense extreme-ultraviolet and near-infrared fields New Journal of Physics 17 (2015) 033043/1-8
- XUV Attosecond photoionization and related ultrafast processes in diatomic and large molecules Ultrafast Dynamics Driven by Intense Light Pulses Springer International Publishing (2015) 125-142
- Initial electronic coherence in molecular dissociation induced by an attosecond pulse Physical Review A 92 (2015) 053403/1-10
- High-average-power, 50-fs parametric amplifier front-end at 1.55 mm Optics Express 23 (2015) 33157-33163
- Bright attosecond soft X-ray pulse trains by transient phase-matching in two-color high-order harmonic generation Optics Express 23 (2015) 33947-33955
- Mapping the dissociative ionization dynamics of molecular nitrogen with attosecond time resolution Physical Review X 5 (2015) 041053/1-11
- Recombination-induced autoionization process in rare-gas clusters Ultrafast Phenomena XIX, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference, Okinawa Convention Center, Okinawa, Japan, July 7-11, 2014 162 (2015) 56-59
- XUV excitation followed by ultrafast non-adiabatic relaxation in PAH molecules as a femto-astrochemistry experiment Nature Communications 6 (2015) 7909-7915
- Dynamics of N2 dissociation upon inner-valence ionization by wavelength-selected XUV pulses Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6 (2015) 419-425
- Attosecond hole migration in benzene molecules surviving nuclear motion Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6 (2015) 426-431