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
- thomas.tschentscher@xfel.eu
- Mailing address
- European XFEL GmbH
Notkestraße 85
22607 Hamburg
Germany
Education
- Diploma at University of Hamburg / DESY (1989–1990)
- Ph.D. at University of Hamburg in collaboration with DESY and University of Munich (1990–1993)
Employment history
- 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)
- Scientific Director of the European XFEL (since 2008)
Responsible for scientific applications and for the realization of the scientific instruments
Research 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


