Aldo Antognini

Aldo Antognini was born in Switzerland in 1976. He graduated in physics from the ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in atomic physics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, in 2005. Since September 2001, he has been with the group of T. W. Hänsch at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany. In 2006, he went to Stuttgart, Germany, to collaborate with the A. Giesen group at the Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge to develop a thin-disk laser for the muonic hydrogen Lamb shift experiment. He is currently engaged with the spectroscopy of muonic hydrogen and the development of the required laser system.