Devesh Chopra

Devesh is a Ph.D. student at the Spectroscopy and Coherent Scattering (SCS) instrument of the European XFEL, affiliated with the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg, and an IMPRS-UFAST Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD). His research focuses on using time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) to study Warm Dense Matter (WDM) created by XFEL pulses. WDM is an extreme state of matter, where solids transition into an intermediate phase between plasma and condensed matter, and is key to understanding astrophysical phenomena, planetary interiors, and inertial confinement fusion.

Devesh’s project involves using time-resolved XAS to probe the transiently created WDM electronic states upon XFEL irradiation, capturing the evolution of non-equilibrium electrons and charge states on ultrafast timescales. By investigating the time-dependent evolution of these nonequilibrium electrons and charge states, his work aims to enhance our understanding of the dynamics of WDM and its fundamental properties.

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Devesh Chopra - Max Plank Institute | IMPRS Fellow (mpsd.mpg.de)