Contact details

Dr. Thomas Tschentscher

Management Board
Scientific Director, Member of the Management Board

Phone

+49 (0)40 8998-3904

Fax

+49 (0)40 8998-1905

Mobile

+49 (0)151 147 278 90

E-mail

thomas.tschentscher@xfel.eu

Mailing address

European XFEL GmbH
Notkestraße 85
22607 Hamburg
Germany

Scientific career

University

• Diploma at University of Hamburg/DESY (1989-1990)
• Ph.D. at University of Hamburg in collaboration with DESY and University of Munich (1990-1993)

Staff scientist

• Beamline Responsible ID15 ESRF Grenoble (1993-1997)
• Materials sciences at ultrashort timescale phenomena at HASYLAB, DESY (since 1997)
• Member of the European XFEL Project Team (since 2005)

Current position

• Scientific Director of the European XFEL (since 2008)
  Responsible for scientific applications and for the realization of the scientific instruments

Scientific interests

• Ultrafast X-ray Science
• Photo-induced structural changes using hard x-rays
• Investigation of transient states in solid-density plasmas
• Instrumentation for intense ultrashort x-ray FEL radiation