Speaker
Description
In this talk I will try to give a brief overview of recent progress in time-resolved implementation of X-ray spectroscopic and scattering methods at X-ray free electron lasers and synchrotrons. I will focus the applications on condensed-phase chemical systems and timescales spanning from femtoseconds to nanoseconds.
About the speaker:
Wojciech Gawelda is a distinguished “Beatriz Galindo” Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Autónoma University Madrid and Associate Research Professor at IMDEA-Nanoscience, Spain.
He worked previously at the Femtosecond X-ray Experiments Group of the European XFEL (2010-2020), Instituto de Óptica-CSIC Madrid (2007-2010) and Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland (2002-2007)
Wojciech research focuses on the applications of advanced ultrafast X-ray techniques in combination with ultrafast optical spectroscopies to study photoinduced structural dynamics in molecular systems, mainly solvated transition metal complexes. He has pioneered several important implementations of time-resolved X-ray methodologies at synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers worldwide.
