Laboratory for Ultrafast X-ray Sciences

The Laboratory of Ultra Rapid X-ray Sciences at EPFL focuses on using advanced accelerator-based x-ray sources to visualize dynamics on the nanometer scale. They work at the intensity frontier, imaging individual nanoparticles with femtosecond x-ray pulses. Collaborating globally, they develop novel x-ray spectroscopy approaches and model x-ray induced processes. Their research involves investigating dynamic processes with femtosecond pulse length, multi-color pump probe approaches, attosecond x-ray physics, and scanning techniques. They design experiments at the frontier of ultrafast and ultra-intense x-ray sciences, with a particular emphasis on x-ray imaging, ultrafast dynamics in externally driven finite systems, and following electronic excitation in time and space.