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Tschentscher, Thomas

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
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