Forthcoming Events

2019 European XFEL Users' Meeting and Satellite Meetings

23.01.2019 - 25.01.2019, DESY-Hamburg and European XFEL, Schenefeld, Germany

Sixth Banff Meeting on Structural Dynamics

09.02.2019 - 13.02.2019, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada

CECAM school on “New Computational Methods for Attosecond Molecular Processes”

26.03.2019 - 29.03.2019, Zaragoza, Spain

News

Ursula Röthlisberger received a distinction by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Neujahrsapéro der FDP-Frauen im Zeichen der Wissenschaft mit Ursula Keller

The FP-RESOMUS Grant Agreement- now signed by the ETH Zürich and the European Commission

Cluster of Excellence RESOLV extended- our partner in FP-RESOMUS and the biannual Science and Gender Meetings

White Paper Photonics Switzerland - now also in French

Majed Chergui elected Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association

Kontext - A radio broadcast with Ursula Keller and Aline Rickli - on leadership positions for women in science (in German)

Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for groundbreaking inventions: intense ultrafast laser pulses and optical tweezers

A female physicist wins the Nobel Prize for just the third time in 117 Years

Ambizione grant awarded to Elsa Abreu- in Steve Johnson's group

International Symposium on Ultrafast Science: From the infrared to the X-rays” Lausanne, 28-30.11.18- now open for registration

Fabrizio Carbone promoted Associate Professor of Physics- in the EPFL School of Basic Sciences from 1st of August

New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Ursula Keller, Gebhard Schertler / Jörg Standfuss, Majed Chergui, Peter Hamm

White Paper Photonics Switzerland- presented June 20, 2018 at the Swissmem "Industrietag"

Ursula Keller wins the European Inventor Lifetime Achievement Award 2018!

Principal Investigators

Institute	Principal Investigator	Research topic

MUST PIs
ETHZ	Ursula Keller (Director) Jeremy Richardson Hans Jakob Wörner Manfred Fiebig Ruth Signorell	Ultrafast Laser Physics Simulating ultrafast processes in molecular systems Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Attosecond Science Multifunctional ferroic materials Aerosols and Nanoscience
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	(from January 2019)
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 Biophysics / Computational Chemistry
UniGE	Jean-Pierre Wolf	GAP Biophotonics

Junior PIs
Uni Bern	André Stefanov	Quantum Optics
EPFL	Ulrich Lorenz	Molecular nanodynamics
ETHZ	Daniela Rupp	(from September 2019, currently at MBI)

FAST PIs
ETHZ	Rachel Grange Ruth Signorell Manfred Fiebig Jochen Maurer Aldo Antognini	Optical Nanomaterials Aerosols and Nanoscience Multifunctional ferroic materials Atomic H-target development Precision Physics at Low Energy
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	SwissFEL SwissFEL Molecular Dynamics Quantum Technologies Group
UniGE	Eric Vauthey	Ultrafast Photochemistry
UniZH	Matthias Hengsberger	Surface Physics
EPFL	Hubert Girault	Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry

Leading houses: ETH Zürich and Universität Bern