Attostructura project counts with an international advisory aboard with recognized experts in attoscience field. Having an advisory board in a research project is crucial for several reasons:
- Expert Guidance: Members bring specialized knowledge, helping ensure the project meets high scientific and technical standards.
- Strategic Oversight: They provide insights on the project’s direction, risk management, and long-term goals.
- Networking and Collaboration: Board members often facilitate connections with other researchers, institutions, or industry partners.
- Credibility: An advisory board enhances the project’s reputation, increasing trust from stakeholders, funding agencies, and collaborators.
The advisory board members of the Attostructura project were carefully selected from international experts in fields such as attosecond science, ultrafast magnetism, and high harmonic generation. This board plays a critical role in providing strategic and technical guidance, ensuring that the project benefits from the latest scientific insights and maintains high research standards. Their expertise supports the project’s efforts to explore cutting-edge phenomena in ultrafast light-matter interactions
Composition of the Advisory Board
Jon Marangos (Chariman) Jon Marangos earned his BSc in Physics from Imperial College in 1982 and completed his PhD there in 1986. He became an EPSRC Advanced Fellow in 1990, conducting research at NIST (USA) and the University of Tokyo. In 2002, he was appointed Professor of Laser Physics and later assumed the Lockyer Chair in Physics. He directs the Blackett Laboratory Laser Consortium and leads key projects, such as the EPSRC Programme Grant on attosecond electron dynamics. His research spans attosecond science, high-intensity laser interactions, and free-electron laser science. Marangos is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Institute of Physic
Alicia Palacios, PhD in theoretical and computational chemistry, is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her research focuses on atomic and molecular physics, with an emphasis on ultrafast processes in laser-matter interaction and the use of attosecond pulses. She has been awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize for her contributions to theoretical and computational chemistry and is the Chair of the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division of the European Physical Society
Misha Ivanov is a leading physicist specializing in ultrafast light-matter interactions. He is the head of the Theory Department at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin and a professor at Humboldt University. Ivanov’s research focuses on attosecond science, investigating electron dynamics in atoms, molecules, and solids under intense laser fields. He also holds a visiting professor position at Imperial College London and Technion, Israel.
Jamal Berakdar is a distinguished professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, where he leads research in theoretical condensed matter physics. His work spans quantum dynamics, nanostructures, and spintronics, focusing on how electrons and their spin interact in complex materials. Berakdar has contributed significantly to understanding quantum systems and their transport phenomena.
Advisory Board MEETINGS
As proposed in the Grant Agreement, two Advisory Board meetings have been held during the project’s lifetime. The first Advisory Board Meeting took place in June 2022, coinciding with the project reaching its midpoint, to review the progress achieved up to that date. The program for this meeting, along with recordings of the presentations from the public sessions, can be accessed through the corresponding link.
The second Advisory Board meeting was held in July 2024 to review the project’s final achievements and discuss future directions. This meeting provided an opportunity for comprehensive evaluation of the outcomes and key milestones. The program and recordings of the public sessions for this meeting are available through the corresponding links