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Meet The Team

Amelle Zair

Amelle Zair

Head of Attosecond Quantum Physics Laboratory - Physics Department at King’s College London

Zakaria Dahbi

Zakaria Dahbi

Zakaria is Marie Curie fellow ( MSCA-HORIZON EU) with Amelle Zair. His research is at the interface of Quantum dots and Attosecond Physics.

Cong Zhao

Cong Zhao

Cong is an awarded PhD on attosecond measurement of carrier dynamics in solids and metamaterials.

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Benjamin Miller

Benjamin Miller

Benjamin is a PhD student in X-metrology: Ben investigates in particular the production of complex laser field for X-metrology and explore the implementation of these technique on XFELs.

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Mateja Batelić Janković

Mateja Batelić Janković

Mateja is a PhD student in HHG frequency mixing modelling at AttoKing's.

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Lucien Freret

Lucien Freret

Lucien is a PGT intern from ENS Lyon, France. He is undertaking an internship project on LHG in solid spectroscopy

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Pietro Polenghi

Pietro Polenghi

Pietro is an UG student on Chiral system under strong field model

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Emilio Pisanty

Emilio Pisanty

Emilio is a Proleptic Lecturer (associated professor) and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at AttoKings. His research focuses on the intersections of strong-field physics, structured light, catastrophe optics and quantum optics.

Nicola Mayer

Nicola Mayer

Nicola is Marie Curie fellow ( MSCA-HORIZON EU) with Emilio Pisanty. His research is at the interface of topology and Attosecond Physics.

Xiaozhou Zou

Xiaozhou Zou

Xiaozhou is an awarded PhD investigating attosecond sources control.

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Seraphine Oakley

Seraphine Oakley

Seraphine is a PhD student at Attoking's. Her project is focused on attosecond structured light

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Suzan Canbas

Suzan Canbas

Suzan is a PhD student in high harmonic generation in quantum materials at AttoKing's

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Srijan S Bhat

Srijan S Bhat

Srijan is a PGTintern from The institute of science and technology Madras, India. He is undertaking an internship project on optimisation of FROG algorithm from Vanilla to ML.

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Margarita Khokhlova

Margarita Khokhlova

Margarita is a Royal Society University Research Fellow. Her research focuses on the theoretical study of the generation of attosecond light pulses and their optimisation, as well as on ultrafast electron dynamics initiated by attosecond pulses in atoms, molecules and solids, including chiral molecules and topological solids.

Robert Jones

Robert Jones

Rob is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Royal Society. His work is on attosecond structure light.

Anne Weber

Anne Weber

Anne is a PhD student in caustics and catastrophes modelling of cut-off High Harmonic Generation at AttoKing's.

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Anna Tomaselli

Anna Tomaselli

Anna is a PhD student at AttoKing's. She is working on ultrafast dynamics in topological solids.

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Elliott Archibald

Elliott Archibald

Eliott is a PhD student in Chiral laser-matter interaction supervised by Margarita Khokhlova, Emilio Pisanty and Amelle Zair

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Alex Benitez

Alex Benitez

Alex is an UG intern working the development of an SFA open access package named 'SNAIL'

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Alumni

Former members:

Dr Martin Arnold [He is now a patent assistant at WP Thompson. Martin did his PhD on multi-colour HHG under Amelle's supervision]

Dr Marion Cornet [She is now a metrology lead scientist Essilor. Marion did her MSc project on fiber optics under Amelle's supervision]

Dr Steffen Driver [ He is now head of sensor development and dectection as tailorlux GmbH integrity solutions. Steffen did his PhD on high repetition rate Ytterbium CPA femtosecond laser under Amelle's supervision]

Dr Sarah Houver [She is now a Maître de conference at University Paris and winner of UNESCO L'Oréal student award. Sarah did her MSc project on two-colour field HHG under Amelle's supervision]

Dr Konstantin Holzner [He is now R&D laser physicist at TOPTICA projects GmbH. Konstantin did his PhD on attosecond quantum control of molecular system under Amelle's supervision]

Yoan Priol [ He is now sale manager at Phasics corporation. Yoann did his BSc 3rd year project on Optical Parametric Amplification under Amelle's supervision]

Zekai Chen [He is now a MSc student at ETH Zurich. Zekai did two BSc projects under Amelle's supervision , onre under the KURF program (prestigious). He investigated attosecond pulse characterisation and then time dependant ellipticity of femtosecond laser field]

Adam Jinnah [He is now an applied machine learning researcher. Adam did his Master project machine learning applied to attosecond investigation under Amelle's supervision]

Xin Lan [ She is now a Physics teacher. Xin did her Master project on bicircular and bicolour laser field known as 'torus field' driving HHG, under Amelle's supervision]

Alma Hadzihasani[ Alma did her Master project on HHG propagation effect under Amelle's supervision]

Julius Thieroff [ Julius did his Master project  on FROG under Amelle's supervision]

Seraphine Oakley [ Seraphine did her Master project  on HHG QPI modeling under Amelle's supervision]

Holly Owens [ Holly did her Master project  on tailored laser field for HHG under Amelle's supervision]

Former visiting academic:

Dr Roland Guichard [Roland worked with Amelle on attosecond chirp compensation. He is a former member of Prof Richard Taieb and Dr Jeremie Caillat. He is now RSE at Cambridge Quantum Computing.]

Dr Francois Risoud [Francois worked with Amelle in modelling for molecular HHG supported by The Royal Society IES. He is a former PhD from Prof Richard Taieb and Dr Jeremie Caillat in collaboration with us]

Dr Margarita Khokhlova [Margarita worked Amelle on modelling HHG in solids. She is now a full member of the group at King's  supported by The Royal Society URF.]

Dr Jan Vabek [Jan worked with Amelle in modelling for HHG QPI supported by ELI-ERIC exchange scheme. He is currently a ERIC ELI beamlines scientist]

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