Martin Aeschlimann
Martin Aeschlimann ( born August 12, 1957) is a Swiss physicist. He is Professor of Experimental Physics and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Physics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, and since 2008 Chairman of the State Research Center Optics and Material Sciences ( Optimas ).
Academic career
Martin Aeschlimann studied from 1980 to 1985 experimental physics at ETH Zurich and received his doctorate there in 1989 on the topic of Magnetism at Surfaces and Ultrafast Magnetization Reversal Studies with Spin - Polarized Photoemission. From 1985 to 1989 he was an assistant at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics with Hans Christoph Siegmann at the ETH Zurich. 1989-1990 occurred Aeschlimann a Postdoctoral site at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington, DC, USA. The following year he became a Research Associate at the NSF Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer at the University of Rochester. From 1993 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Laboratory for Technical Chemistry at ETH Zurich. In November 1996, he qualified on the subject of Time Resolved Studies of Electron Relaxation at Metal Surfaces and was then appointed in April 1998 at the University of Essen University Professor of Experimental Physics. In July 2000 he moved to the University of Kaiserslautern. From 2008, he held the position of dean ( college) s of the Physics Department until 2010 Michael Fleischhauer replaced him. Since 2008 he is speaker of the Priority Programme 1391 Ultra Nanooptics the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, spokesman of the State Research Center Optics and Material Sciences ( Optimas ) and, furthermore, he is a member of the Extended Advisory Board PULSE at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center since 2009, also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal New Journal of Physics.
Research
The research area of Martin Aeschlimann are ultrafast phenomena at surfaces of solids, thin films and nanoparticles. The focus of the study is on the dynamics of electrons, phonons and spin in highly correlated systems, magnetic materials and organic semiconductors. The experimental measurement method for the investigation of ultrafast relaxation processes in real time with high temporal resolution are continually being developed. Basically combines Martin Aeschlimann measurement methods with ultrafast laser pulses with methods of surface physics. At present, this time-resolved photoemission and time-resolved magneto- optical effects with laser pulses in the visible spectrum of light and soft X-ray range are used. 2002-2008 he was a Steering Committee member of the DFG priority program 1133 Ultrafast magnetization processes.
Awards
- Price of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF ) Profile II
Publications
Aeschlimann has published more than one hundred scientific publications in refereed international journals.