New Research Associate Position for the BMFTR Project AttoSee

DESY • Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany • Posted June 08, 2026

Location Hamburg, Hamburg
Job Type Full-time/Part-time
Category Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians
Posted June 08, 2026


About your role:


As part of the BMFTR project „AttoSee”:


  • You will drive the development of synchronised ultrashort UV and NIR sources at the CFEL-ATTO labs for testing a setup for concurrent angular streaking of high and low kinetic energy electrons, ultimately to be used at the European XFEL
  • Beginning with a state-of-the-art femtosecond laser system and mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier, you will develop a compression scheme to reach few-cycle pulse durations, and subsequently use them to drive deep UV resonant dispersive waves in a hollow core fiber
  • You will design an optical setup to combine the sources spatially and temporally inside a multi-electron-spectrometer setup
  • Carry out experiments on various samples in collaboration with an expert team
  • In addition to the experiments at DESY, you will take part in experimen...

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