Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy

MBI Staff Member – Personal info

Prof. Dr. Stefan Eisebitt

stefan.eisebitt(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1300

B: Transient Electronic Structure and Nanoscience
Building B, 3.12

Position

Director at the Max-Born-Institut 
für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie 
im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.

Professor for Experimental Physics at the 
Technische Universität Berlin, 
Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik

Research

  • Transient electronic structure and ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetization
  • Nanoscale (transient) structure and emerging materials properties
  • Novel imaging and scattering methods with coherent radiation at short wavelength
  • XUV and X-ray spectroscopy, light matter interaction

Curriculum vitae

2015-Director at the Max-Born-Institute and Professor in Physics (W3) at the Technische Universität Berlin, Experimental Physics / Laser Physics. Member of the Executive Board of Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
2012-2015Professor in Physics, Lund University, Coherent Imaging Methods in Materials Science
2009-2015Head of the Joint Research Group Functional Nanomaterials between Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin and Technische Univserität Berlin
2008-2015Professor in Physics (W3), Technische Universität Berlin, Experimental Physics / Nanometer-Optics and X-Ray Scattering
2005-2008Privatdozent at Humboldt-Universität Berlin
2002-2008Staff Scientist, BESSY, head of in-house research group Resonant Scattering
2002Habilitation (Cologne University), Thesis: Streuung weicher Röntgenstrahlung: Neue Techniken zur Untersuchung nanostrukturierter Materialien
2001Staff Scientist, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA
1998-2001Staff Scientist, IFF, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
1996-1998Postdoc, IFF, Forschungszentrum Jülich
1993-1996Ph.D. research at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada via DAAD fellowship. Thesis (Cologne University): Electronic and Structural Properties of Interfaces and Semiconductor Nanostructures
1992Diplom in Physics, Cologne University, research at IFF, Forschungszentrum Jülich. Thesis: Electronic and Geometric Structure of Buried CoSi2 Layers investigated with Photon-in Photon-out Spectroscopies
1988-1990Zivildienst
1988Vordiplom Physics
1986Vordiplom Biology
1965Born in Cologne

 

Committees of Trust / Community Service

2022-Chairman of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V.
2022-Chairman of the Elettra Scientific Advisory Council
2019-Member of the Elettra Scientific Advisory Council
2016-2019Member of the BMBF Gutachterausschuss
2015-2018Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European XFEL
2014-2016Member of the Extended Governing Board of the Ioffe-Röntgen-Institute (IRI)
2014-2017Chairman of the Komitee für Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung (KFS)
2013-2016Member of the BMBF Gutachterausschuss
2013-2021Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European XFEL
2013-Member of the DESY Photon Science Committee
2008-2020Member of the Komitee für Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung (KFS)

 

MBI Publications

  1. Pump-probe x-ray microscopy of photo-induced magnetization dynamics at MHz repetition rates

    K. Gerlinger, B. Pfau, M. Hennecke, L.-M. Kern, I. Will, T. Noll, M. Weigand, J. Gräfe, N. Träger, M. Schneider, C. M. Günther, D. Engel, G. Schütz, S. Eisebitt

     Structural Dynamics 10 (2023) 024301/1-9
  2. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy at the Fe L-edges with a picosecond laser-driven plasma source

    M. Borchert, D. Engel, C. von Korff Schmising, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt, D. Schick

     Optica 10 (2023) 450-455
  3. Ultrafast X-ray imaging of the light-induced phase transition in VO2

    A. S. Johnson, D. Pérez-Salinas, K. M. Siddiqui, S. Kim, S. Choi, K. Volckaert, P. E. Majchrzak, S. Ulstrup, K. Hallman, R. F. Haglund, C. M. Günther, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt, D. Backes, F. Maccherozzi, A. Fitzpatrick, S. Dhesi, P. Gargiani, M. Valvidares, N. Artrith, F. de Groot, H. Choi, D. Jang, A. Katoch, S. Kwon, S. H. Park, H. Kim, S. E. Wall

     Nature Physics 19 (2023) 215-220
  4. Ultrafast behavior of induced and intrinsic magnetic moments in CoFeB/Pt bilayers probed by element-specific spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range

    C. von Korff Schmising, S. Jana, K. Yao, M. Hennecke, P. Scheid, S. Sharma, M. Viret, J.-Y. Chauleau, D. Schick, S. Eisebitt

     Phys. Rev. Res. (2023) 013147/1-8
  5. Versatile tabletop setup for picosecond time-resolved resonant soft-x-ray scattering and spectroscopy

    M. Borchert, J. Brenzel, R. Gnewkow, L. Lunin, T. Sidiropoulos, J. Tümmler, I. Will, T. Noll, O. Reichel, D. Rohloff, A. Erko, T. Krist, C. v. Korff Schmising, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt, H. Stiel, D. Schick

     Review of Scientific Instruments 94 (2023) 063102/1-12
  6. Three-dimensional coherent diffraction snapshot imaging using extreme-ultraviolet radiation from a free electron laser

    D. Fainozzi, M. Ippoliti, F. Bille, D.De Angelis, L. Foglia, C. Masciovecchio, R. Mincigrucci, M. Pancaldi, E. Pedersoli, C. M. Günther, B. Pfau, M. Schneider, C. von Korff Schmising, S. Eisebitt, G. Kourousias, F. Bencivenga, F. Capotondi

     Optica 10 (2023) 1053-1058
  7. Coherent correlation imaging: resolving fluctuating states of matter

    C. Klose, F. Büttner, W. Hu, C. Mazzoli, K. Litzius, R. Battitelli, S. Zayko, I. Lemesh, J. M. Bartell, M. Huang, C. M. Günther, M. Schneider, A. Barbour, S. B. Wilkins, G. S. D. Beach, S. Eisebitt, B. Pfau

     Nature 614 (2023) 256-261
  8. Ultrafast X-Ray hyperspectral imaging of the photo-induced phase transition in VO2

    A. S. Johnson, D. Pérez-Salinas, K. M. Siddiqui, S. Kim, S. Choi, K. Volckaert, P. E. Majchrzak, S. Ulstrup, K. Hallman, R. F. Haglund, C. M. Günther, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt, D. Backes, F. Maccherozzi, A. Fitzpatrick, S. Dhesi, P. Gargiani, M. Valvidares, H. Choi, D. Jang, A. Katoch, S. Kwon, S. H. Park, H. Kim, S. E. Wall

     Ultrafast Phenomena 2022 Optica Publishing Group (2022)
  9. Reference shape effects on Fourier transform holography

    E. Malm, B. Pfau, M. Schneider, C. M. Günther, P. Hessing, F. Büttner, A. Mikkelsen, S. Eisebitt

     Optics Express 30 (2022) 38424-38438
  10. Vierwellenmischung im extremen UV

    H. Rottke, D. Schick, S. Eisebitt

     Physik in unserer Zeit 53 (2022) 216-217

Other Publications

A publication list can be retrieved in ISI web of science using: author=(eisebitt, s*). A more up to date/extensive list is available on Google Scholar at this this link.