In charge of the operation, maintainance, upgrade of the beamline and the ultra-high vacuum beamline multi-technique endstations for XPS-XAS-RIXS and of the technical evaluation of the proposals.
In charge of defining the technical specifications and supervising the construction and the supply of the new 7 Tesla 1.5 K endstation for time-resolved XMCD (call for tender, contract, supervision of the design and construction, conceptual design and purchase of the insertion chamber, conceptual design of the surface preparation chamber and the sample holder for this endstation). Installation and commissioning of the cryomagnet on the BACH beamline.
Providing support and collaborating with the beamline users during the experiments. Contributing to development of the in-house research program of the beamline BACH.
Scientific areas of interests
Electronic structure, chemical and magnetic properties of complex materials (superconductors, oxides, inter-metallic compounds, semiconductor-metal alloys).
In-situ epitaxial growth of nano-structured materials for applications in spintronics, catalysis and photovoltaic systems (self-assembled organic/inorganic molecules and hybrid interfaces, transition-metal silicides and germanides, transition-metal oxides).
Surface reactions at metal and metal-oxide catalyst surfaces and interfaces.
Magnetism in low-dimensional systems (thin films, nano-structures, metallo-organic layers and molecular magnets) using x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in x-ray absorption, photoemission and emission.
Instrumental development in Surface Science methods (evaporators, sample holders, sample transfer systems).
Electronic structure and structural properties of surfaces and interfaces using x-ray photoemission spectroscopy, LEED, x-ray absorption, x-ray emission and x-ray photoelectron diffraction (XPD).
Low-energy excitations (dd, charge transfer) in complex materials studied by resonant x-ray emission (RIXS).