Meet The Team

Amelle Zair

Head of Attosecond Quantum Physics Laboratory - Physics Department at King’s College London

amelle.zair@kcl.ac.uk

Zakaria Dahbi

Zakaria is Marie Curie fellow ( MSCA-HORIZON EU) with Amelle Zair. His research is at the interface of Quantum dots and Attosecond Physics.

TBD

Cong Zhao

Cong is a PhD Student on attosecond measurement of carrier dynamics in metamaterials at Attoking's.

Benjamin Miller

Benjamin is a PhD student in X-metrology: Ben investigates in particular the production of complex laser field for X-metrology and explore the implementation of these technique on XFELs.

Mateja Batelic-Jankovic

Mateja is in HHG mixing modelling at AttoKing's.

Xiang Zhou

Xiang is a Master student on structure light HHG

Pietro Polenghi

Pietro is an UG student on structure light

Emilio Pisanty

Emilio is a Proleptic Lecturer (associated professor) and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at AttoKings. His research focuses on the intersections of strong-field physics, structured light, catastrophe optics and quantum optics.

emilio.pisanty@kcl.ac.uk

Nicola Mayer

Nicola is Marie Curie fellow ( MSCA-HORIZON EU) with Emilio Pisanty. His research is at the interface of topology and Attosecond Physics.

TBD

Anne Weber

Anne is a PhD Student in caustics and catatrophes modelling of cut-off High Harmonic Generation at AttoKing's.

Seraphine Oakley

Seraphine is a PhD student at Attoking's. Her project is focused on attosecond structured light

Elliott Archibald

Eliott is a Master student on SFA calculation

Alex Benitez

Alex is an UG intern working with Amelle Zair on machine learning applied to attosecond physics

Yann Janssen

Yann is an UG student on caustic HHG

Margarita Khokhlova

Margarita is a Royal Society University Research Fellow. Her research focuses on the theoretical study of the generation of attosecond light pulses and their optimisation, as well as on ultrafast electron dynamics initiated by attosecond pulses in atoms, molecules and solids, including chiral molecules and topological solids.

margarita.khokhlova@kcl.ac.uk

Robert Jones

Rob is a postdoctoral researcher at AttoKing's. He work on attosecond structure light.

TBD

Xiaozhou Zou

Xiaozhou is a PhD Student investigating attosecond coherent control of molecular dynamics

Anna Tomaselli

Anna is a PhD student at AttoKing's. She is working on ultrafast dynamics in topological solids.

Nihal Faiz

Nihal is a Master student on femtosecond pulse characterization (FROG)

Zhaoyang Li

Zhaoyang is an UG intern working on optical vorteces with Amelle Zair

Alumni

Former members:

Dr Martin Arnold [He is now a patent assistant at WP Thompson. Martin did his PhD on multi-colour HHG under Amelle's supervision]

Dr Marion Cornet [She is now a metrology lead scientist Essilor. Marion did her MSc project on fiber optics under Amelle's supervision]

Dr Steffen Driver [ He is now head of sensor development and dectectionas tailorlux GmbH integrity solutions. Steffen did his PhD on high repetition rate Ytterbium CPA femtosecond laser under Amelle's supervision]

Dr Sarah Houver [She is now a Maitre de conference at Univeristy Paris and winner of UNESCO L'Oreal student award. Sarah did her MSc project on two-colour field HHG under Amelle's supervision]

Dr Konstantin Holzner [He is now R&D laser physicist at TOPTICA projects GmbH. Konstantin did his PhD on attosecond quantum control of molecular system under Amelle's supervision]

Yoan Priol [ He is now sale manager at Phasics corporation. Yoann did his BSc 3rd year project on Optical Parametric Amplification under Amelle's supervision]

Zekai Chen [He is now a MSc student at ETH Zurich. Zekai did two BSc projects under Amelle's supervision , onre under the KURF program (prestigious). He investigated attosecond pulse characterisation and then time dependant ellipticity of femtosecond laser field]

Adam Jinnah [He is now an applied machine learning researcher. Adam did his Master project machine learning applied to attosecond investigation under Amelle's supervision]

Xin Lan [ She is now a Physics teacher. Xin did her Master project on bicircular and bicolour laser field known as 'torus field' driving HHG, under Amelle's supervision]

Alma Hadzihasani[ Alma did her Master project on HHG propagation effect under Amelle's supervision]

Julius Thieroff [ Julius did his Master project on FROG under Amelle's supervision]

Seraphine Oakley [ Seraphine did her Master project on HHG QPI modeling under Amelle's supervision]

Holly Owens [ Holly did her Master project on tailored laser filed for HHG under Amelle's supervision]

Former visiting academic:

Dr Roland Guichard [Roland worked with Amelle on attosecond chirp compensation. He is a former member of Prof Richard Taied and Dr Jeremie Caillat. He is now RSE at Cambridge Quantum Computing.]

Dr Francois Risoud [Francois worked with Amelle in modelling for molecular HHG supported by The Royal Society IES. He is a former PhD from Prof Richard Taied and Dr Jeremie Caillat in collaboration with us]

Dr Margarita Khokhlova [Margarita worked Amelle on modelling HHG in solids. She is now a full member of the group at King's supported by The Royal Society URF.]

Dr Jan Vabek [Jan worked with Amelle in modelling for HHG QPI supported by ELI-ERIC exchange scheme. He is currently a ERIC ELI beamlines scientist]