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
- Towards imaging of ultrafast molecular dynamics using FELs Journal of Physics B-Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 46 (2013) 164029/1-13
- Coulomb explosion of diatomic molecules in intense XUV fields mapped by partial covariance Journal of Physics B-Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 46 (2013) 164028/1-11
- Interference in the angular distribution of photoelectrons in superimposed XUV and optical laser fields Journal of Physics B-Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 46 (2013) 164026/1-6
- Photoelectron angular distributions for the two-photon ionization of helium by ultrashort extreme ultraviolet free-electron laser pulses Journal of Physics B-Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 46 (2013) 164018/1-6
- Photoelectron angular distributions for the two-photon sequential double ionization of xenon by ultrashort extreme ultraviolet free electron laser pulses Journal of Physics B-Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 46 (2013) 164022/1-6
- Femtosecond photoelectron diffraction on laser-aligned molecular: Towards time-resolved imaging of molecular structure Physical Review A 88 (2013) 061402(R)/1-5
- Attosecond pump-probe transition-state spectroscopy of laser-induced molecular dissociative ionization: Adiabatic versus nonadiabatic dressed-state dynamics Physical Review A 88 (2013) 053416/1-12
- Photoelectron angular distributions from the ionization of xenon Rydberg states by midinfrared radiation Physical Review A 87 (2013) 033413/1-10
- Probing time-dependent molecular dipoles on the attosecond time scale Physical Review Letters 111 (2013) 033001/1-5
- Subcycle controlled charge-directed reactivity with few-cycle midinfrared pulses Physical Review Letters 108 (2012) 063002/1-5