Prof. M.J.J. Vrakking

Director Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeit- Spektroskopie im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.

Max Born Strasse 2A
12489 Berlin

Tel.: +49 (0)30-6392-1200
e-mail: vrakking@mbi-berlin.de

Education:

09/1981 - 08/1987	Master´s Degree at the Eindhoven University of Technology (cum laude), including stay from 9/1985 - 5/1986 as visiting scientist at Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan
08/1987 - 11/1992	Phd Degree from the University of California at Berkeley (USA), under the supervision of Prof. Yuan T. Lee (1986 Chemistry Nobel laureate). Thesis: Towards rotationally state-resolved differential cross sections for the hydrogen exchange reaction

Work experience since the Phd degree:

11/1992 - 08/1994	Postdoctoral researcher, University of California at Berkeley, USA
09/1994 - 08/1995	Postdoctoral researcher, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
09/1995 - 12/1996	Fellowship from the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
01/2000 - 06/2011	Tenured groupleader position at AMOLF
09/2004 - present	Adjunct Professor Radboud University Nijmegen
03/2010 - present	Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin
03/2010 - present	Director of the Max-Born Institut in Berlin

Selected international activities

Coordinator FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network 'ATTOFEL' (Ultrafast Dynamics using Attosecond and XUV Free Electron Laser sources), (2009-present)
Coordinator of FP7 Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnership Program 'FLUX' (Femtosecond Lasers for the Generation of Ultrashort XUV Pulses), (2008-present).
Coordinator of FP6 Marie Curie Research Training Network 'XTRA' (Ultrashort XUV Pulses for Time-Resolved and Non-Linear Applications), (2004-2008); also coordinating new proposal submitted 09/2008.
Member, International Scientific Advisory Board Manchester Photon Science Institute (2007-present).
Member of XFEL SQS Steering and Advisory Committee (2011-present)

Scholarships and prizes

NWO VICI Award (2005)

Recent Grants

Leibniz Graduate school "Dynamics in New Light", co-proposer and co-coordinator of 1.2 M€ project (2010)
TOP Subsidie 'Molecular Dynamics using X-ray FELs', 570 k€ (2009)
FOM Projectruimte 'Attosecond Plasmonics' 500 k€, (2009)
FP7 Initial Training network ATTOFEL "Ultrafast Dynamics using Attosecond and XUV Free Electron Laser Sources", coordinator of successful proposal, (2008)
FP7 Industry-Academia Partnership Progrom FLUX "Femtosecond lasers for the generation of ultrafast XUV pulses", coordinator of successful proposal (2007)
Successfully applied for beamtime at FLASH Free Electron Laser facility (2007, 2009) and FELICE Free Electron Laser facility (2009)

Invited presentations to peer-reviewed, internationally established conferences and/or international advanced schools (if applicable): 73 invited talks and 33 colloquia over the period 2002-2011.

Number of papers in peer-reviewed journals: 121

Organisation of International conferences and editorial board memberships

Member of programme committee ICOMP conferences 2005, 2008 and 2011.
Member of programme committee Attosecond conference 2009 and 2011
Member of programme committee Dynamical Imaging Conference 2009
Member of the board of the European Group of Atomic Spectroscopists (EGAS) (2006-present).
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physics B (2008-present)
Editor of Chemical Physics special issue on Attosecond Molecular Science (with A.D. Bandrauk and J. Manz).

List of 10 selected publications of M.J.J. Vrakking

Y. Huismans, A. Rouzée, A. Gijsbertsen, J.H. Jungmann, A.S. Smolkowska, P.S.W.M. Logman, F. Lépine, C. Cauchy, S. Zamith, T. Marchenko, J.M. Bakker, G. Berden, B. Redlich, A.F.G. van der Meer, H. G. Muller, W. Vermin, K.J. Schafer, M. Spanner, M.Y. Ivanov, O. Smirnova, D. Bauer, S.V. Popruzhenko, M.J.J. Vrakking, Time-Resolved Holography with Photoelectrons. Science 331, 61 (2011), (online dec. 16th 2010).
G. Sansone, F. Kelkensberg, J.F. Perez-Torres, F. Morales, M.F. Kling, W. Siu, O. Ghafur, P. Johnsson, M. Swoboda, E. Benedetti, F. Ferrari, F. Lepine, J.L. Sanz-Vicario, S. Zherebtsov, I. Znakovskaya, A. L'Huillier, M.Y. Ivanov, M. Nisoli, F. Martin, M.J.J. Vrakking, Electron localization following attosecond molecular photoionization. Nature 465 763-U3 (2010).
J. Mauritsson, T. Remetter, M. Swoboda, K. Klunder, A. L'Huillier, K.J. Schafer, O. Ghafur, F. Kelkensberg, W. Siu, P. Johnsson, M.J.J. Vrakking, I. Znakovskaya, T. Uphues, S. Zherebtsov, M.F. Kling, F. Lepine, E. Benedetti, F. Ferrari, G. Sansone, M. Nisoli, Attosecond Electron Spectroscopy Using a Novel Interferometric Pump-Probe Technique. Physical Review Letters 2010, 105 (5),
O. Ghafur, A. Rouzee, A. Gijsbertsen, W. Siu, S. Stolte & M.J.J. Vrakking, Impulsive Orientation and Alignment of Quantum State-selected NO Molecules, Nature Physics 4, 289 (2009).
M.F. Kling and M.J.J. Vrakking, Attosecond electron dynamics, Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry 59, 463 (2008).
M. Uiberacker, Th. Uphues, M. Schultze, A.J. Verhoef, V. Yakovlev, M.F. Kling, J. Rauschenberger, N.M. Kabachnik, H. Schr?der, M. Lezius, K.L. Kompa, H.-G. Muller, M.J.J. Vrakking, S. Hendel, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher and F. Krausz, Attosecond real-time observation of electron tunneling and multi-electron dynamics in atoms, Nature 446, 627 (2007).
M.F. Kling, Ch. Siedschlag, A.J. Verhoef, J.I. Khan, M. Schultze, Th. Uphues, Y. Ni, M. Uiberacker, M. Drescher, F. Krausz and M.J.J. Vrakking, Control of Electron Localization in Molecular Dissociation, Science 312, 246 (2006).
Th. Remetter, P. Johnsson, J. Mauritsson, K. Varjú, Y. Ni, F. Lépine, E. Gustafsson, M. Kling, J. Khan, R. López-Martens, K.J. Schafer, M.J.J. Vrakking and A. L’Huillier, Attosecond Electron Wave Packet Interferometry, Nature Physics 2, 353 (2006)
S. Aseyev, Y. Ni, L. Frasinski, H.G. Muller and M.J.J. Vrakking, Angular-resolved attosecond photoelectron spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 223902 (2003).
F. Rosca-Pruna and M.J.J. Vrakking, Experimental Observation of Revival Structures in Picosecond Laser-Induced Alignment of I2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 153902 (2001).