Forthcoming Events

Workshop on ‘Complex Materials for Nonlinear Optics’ (CMNO 2020)

29.01.2020 - 31.01.2020, ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich

2020 European XFEL Users' Meeting

29.01.2020 - 31.01.2020, DESY-Hamburg and European XFEL, Schenefeld, Germany

GRS - Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems

01.02.2020 - 02.02.2020, Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy

News

Hans Jakob Wörner invited to give the „New Horizons Solvay Lectures” - in Belgium in March/April 2020

Ruth Signorell receives the Humboldt Prize- awarded in recognition of outstanding achievements in research and teaching

New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Keller, Chergui, Richardson / Vanicek, Wörner, Castiglioni / Osterwalder / Hengsberger / van Bokhoven

FP-RESOMUS Call 2- now open!

Ursula Keller wins the SPIE 2020 Gold Medal- awarded in recognition of outstanding engineering or scientific accomplishments

Nobel Prize winner Gerard Mourou - Physics Colloquium 11.12.19: Passion Extreme Light

LACUS accepted as first Swiss full member of Laserlab Europe - November 13, 2016

Fellowships for Postdoc Mothers - D-PHYS, ETHZ

Paths to a professorship – 23 interviews

Former EPFL PhD student Edoardo Baldini wins the 2019 APS Carl E. Anderson

Giulia Mancini (EPFL) wins ERC starting grant and VIDI grant

Former EPFL PhD student Edoardo Baldini wins the IBM prize of the SPS

New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Peter Hamm, Ursula Keller, Jörg Standfuss, and Fabrizio Carbone

Ursula Keller elected for the American Physics Society (APS) International Council

Google funds EPFL research by Fabrizio Carbone on nuclear phenomena

Principal Investigators

Institute	Principal Investigator	Research topic

MUST PIs
ETHZ	Ursula Keller (Director) Jeremy Richardson Hans Jakob Wörner Manfred Fiebig Ruth Signorell Daniela Rupp	Ultrafast Laser Physics Simulating ultrafast processes in molecular systems Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Attosecond Science Multifunctional ferroic materials Aerosols and Nanoscience Nanostructures and Ultrafast X-Ray Science
ETHZ/PSI	Steve Johnson	Ultrafast Dynamics
UniBE	Thomas Feurer (Co-Director) Andrea Cannizzo Natalie Banerji Robert Häner	Linear and Nonlinear THz Science Ultrafast Molecular Spectroscopy Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Organic Electronic Materials Supramolecular Polymers
UniBE/PSI	Adrian Cavalieri	Laboratory for Non-Linear Optics
PSI	Paul Beaud Urs Staub Chris Milne Jörg Standfuss	Femtosecond X-rays Microscopy and Magnetism Beamline Alvra at SwissFEL Laboratory of Biomolecular Research
EPFL	Majed Chergui Fabrizio Carbone Jacques - E. Moser Ursula Röthlisberger Jiri Vanicek	Ultrafast Spectroscopy Ultrafast Microscopy and Electron Scattering Photochemical Dynamics Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry Theoretical Physical Chemistry
EPFL/PSI	Christoph Bostedt	Laboratory for Femtochemistry (LSF)
UniZH	Peter Hamm Jürg Osterwalder	Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics Surface Physics
UniBA	Markus Meuwly	Theoretical Chemistry
UniGE	Jean-Pierre Wolf	GAP Biophotonics

Junior PIs
Uni Bern	André Stefanov	Quantum Optics
EPFL	Ulrich Lorenz	Molecular nanodynamics


FAST PIs
ETHZ	Rachel Grange Jochen Maurer	Optical Nanomaterials Atomic H-target development
ETHZ/PSI	Gebhard Schertler	Laboratory of Biomolecular Research
UniBE	Silvio Decurtins	New Materials

Phase I / II PIs
ETHZ/PSI	Jeroen van Bokhoven	Heterogenous Catalysis
UniNE	Thomas Südmeyer	Time and Frequency
PSI	Bruce Patterson Rafael Abela Thomas Gerber Hans Sigg Aldo Antognini (FAST)	SwissFEL SwissFEL Molecular Dynamics Quantum Technologies Group Precision Physics at Low Energy
UniGE	Eric Vauthey	Ultrafast Photochemistry
UniZH	Matthias Hengsberger	Surface Physics
EPFL	Hubert Girault	Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry

Leading houses: ETH Zürich and Universität Bern