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
- XUV-induced reactions in benzene on sub-10 fs timescale: nonadiabatic relaxation and proton migration Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19 (2017) 19822-19828
- Interference-encoded photoionization time delays in the hydrogen atom Journal of Physics B-Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 50 (2017) 164001/1-7
- Editorial: Special issue celebrating 25 years of re-collision physics Journal of Physics B-Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 50 (2017) 170201/1-2
- Coherent diffractive imaging of single helium nanodroplets with a high harmonic generation source Nature Communications 8 (2017) 493/1-6
- Coherent imaging of an attosecond electron wave packet Science 365 (2017) 1150-1153
- Numerical study of spatiotemporal distortions in noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers Optics Express 25 (2017) 3104-3121
- Ion-ion coincidence imaging at high event rate using an in-vacuum pixel detector Journal of Chemical Physics 147 (2017) 013919
- Few-femtosecond passage of conical intersections in the benzene cation Nature Communications 8 (2017) 1018/1-7
- Tracing transient charges in expanding clusters Physical Review A 95 (2017) 063417/1-5
- Ultrafast modulation of electronic structure by coherent phonon excitations Physical Review B (R) 95 (2017) 081101/1-5