Forthcoming Events

Femto-UP 2020-21: Ultrafast lasers technologies and applications

08.03.2021 - 29.03.2021, Online

International Online Workshop Electrons, Photons and Plasmons 2021

10.03.2021 - 12.03.2021, Online

Collaborative Network for X-ray Spectroscopy (CONEXS) Workshop 2021

15.03.2021 - 17.03.2021, Online

News

Proof of concept ERC Grant for Ursula Keller Dual-comb laser driven terahertz spectrometer for industrial sensing (DC-THz)

Farewell and Welcome!Chris Milne leaves for the European XFEL, Camila Bacellar takes over

SY-GAIA expedition - measures aerosols in the North-Atlantic

8photonics wins Ypsomed Innovations Prize

Synergy grants for MUST-AssociatesSylvie Roke (EPFL) and Gebhard Schertler (PSI/ETH).

Promotion to Associate Professor of Photonicscongratulations to Rachel Grange!

Farewell and Welcome!

First light in the SwissFEL Maloja endstation- on track for first experiments in 2021

New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Chergui, Milne, Wörner, Vaníček and Röthlisberger

Jeremy Richardson wins the Hans G. A. Hellmann-Prize for theoretical chemistry

Ursula Keller - Creating a university culture where women thrive:statistics and special measures

Surveys of Issues Important to women Professors at EPFL/ETHZ- Reports

"Creating Organisations Where Women Thrive” - with Ursula Keller- Women's Hub Session

Majed Chergui wins the Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science & Technology- ACS 2021 national award winners

New scientific highlights- from MUST researchers at PSI

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 Camila Bacellar Jörg Standfuss	Femtosecond X-rays Microscopy and Magnetism SwissFEL (from Dec. 2020 at European XFEL) SwissFEL Laboratory of Biomolecular Research
EPFL	Majed Chergui Fabrizio Carbone Jacques - E. Moser Ursula Röthlisberger Jiri Vaníček	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