The Group

Founded in September 2019, the Nanostructures and Ultrafast X-ray Science Group at ETH Zurich develops and uses new methods to flash-image fragile and short-lived nanostructures and ultrafast changes in their electronic and structural properties via diffraction imaging, pushing towards extreme temporal resolution. For this endeavor we use the intense XUV and X-ray pulses from large-scale facilities called Free-Electron Lasers (FELs) and lab-based High-Harmonic Generation (HHG) sources.

We regularly prepare and carry out experiments at XUV and X-ray FELs around the world, often working within international collaborations. Upcoming projects involve the external page FERMI FEL in Trieste, Italy, the external page SwissFEL in Villigen, Switzerland, external page FLASH and external page European XFEL in Hamburg, Germany, and external page LCLS at SLAC in Stanford, USA. Together with our collaborators from the external page Max-Born-Institut in Berlin, we are developing HHG experiments towards attosecond diffraction. The group is also associated to the external page NCCR MUST, a Swiss center for research competence in ultrafast science and technology.

You can find us here. A list of the current members of the group can be found under People. Open Positions for postdoc, PhD, Master’s and semester student positions are listed under Open Positions on the left.