Domain Sciences

Gravitational Wave Detection & Laser Interferometry

Prof. Oliver Gerberding (UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • interferometer readout and control
  • FPGA-based phase readout algorithms
  • seismic isolation
  • distributed sensing
  • noise reduction in laser interferometers
  • readout and control of opto-mechanical systems
  • gravitational wave detector noise reduction
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • machine learning
  • computer science
  • signal processing
  • real-time, adaptive and non-linear control
Publications

High Precision Metrology for Gravitational Wave & Dark Matter Detection

Prof. Katharina-Sophie Isleif (HSU)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • high precision optical metrology
  • laser interferometry,
  • optical engineering and simulatons
  • distributed sensing
  • seismic and Newtonian noise
  • gravitational wave detection
  • geodesy
  • axion-like particle search
Potential Match-Making fields
  • methods to solve optimization problems
  • machine learning,
  • data post-processing and analysis,
  • optical and mechanical modeling and simulations
  • field-programmable gate array (FPGA) signal processing and feedback control
Publications

Material Physics

Prof. Patrick Huber (TUHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • condensed-matter physics
  • thermodynamics
  • optics
  • materials science
  • functional materials
  • nanoporous media
  • metamaterials
  • nanofluidics & microfluidics
  • X-ray and neutron scattering
  • photon science
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • computer simulation
  • molecular dynamics simulation
  • 4-D tomography
  • machine learning
  • X-ray free electron lasers
Publications

Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Michael Breuer (HSU)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • fluid mechanics
  • turbulence
  • fluid-structure interaction
  • multiphase flows
  • particle-laden flows
  • computational fluid dynamics
  • large-eddy simulation
  • direct numerical simulation
  • high-performance computing
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • modeling and simulation with partial differential equations
  • numerical algorithms for continuum mechanics and particle tracking
  • multiphysics
  • high-performance computing
Publications
Prof. Thomas Rung (TUHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • fluid & thermodynamics
  • PDE-constraint optimization
  • computer science and engineering
  • high-performance computing
  • data analysis
  • grid-based & meshless & kinetic numerical methods
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • PDE-based flow physics modeling
  • multi-phase/continua transport processes
  • optimal control
  • reduced order and surrogate modeling
Publications

New States of Matter: A Theoretical Approach

Prof. Angel Rubio (MPSD)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • new emergent states of matter out of equilibrium
  • quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theories and many-body methods (QEDFT)
  • time-dependent functional theory (TDDFT) for quantum electrodynamics
  • ab initio light-matter phenomena
  • cavity and Floquet materials engineering (QED materials)
  • QED chemistry
  • nanoplasmonics
  • topology
  • time-resolved spectroscopy
  • high-harmonic generation in solids and liquids (HHG)
  • electronic and structural properties of two-dimensional materials
  • moiré quantum simulators
  • novel phenomena in two-dimensional materials
  • cavity twistronics
  • code development
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • novel and efficient multi‐scale and multi‐resolution approaches for coupled Maxwell‐Kohn‐Sham equations
  • static and driven topological phenomena
  • development of Octopus code
Publications

Particle Physics

Prof. Freya Blekman (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • particle physics
  • machine learning
    (generative networks and supervised classification,
    application of novel techniques to increase physics sensitivity mostly)
  • large software infrastructure
  • software and firmware for instrumentation
  • data quality monitoring
  • data analysis
  • open science and reproducible science
  • science communication and outreach
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • computer science
  • accelerator science
  • broader contexts (also interested in biology)
Publications
Prof. Elisabetta Gallo (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • particle physics
  • physics at colliders
  • data analysis of large datasets
  • standard model
  • Higgs
  • quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
  • electroweak interactions
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • machine learning
  • quantum computing
  • photon phyiscs
  • accelerator phyiscs
  • medical applications
Publications
Prof. Gregor Kasieczka (UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • collider-based experimental particle physics
  • searches for exotic new physics
  • deep learning for object classification (images/point clouds/graphs)
  • unsupervised anomaly detection/density estimation
  • generative models for fast simulation
  • uncertainty quantification via Bayesian networks
  • decorrelation for robust predictions
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • mathematics, e.g., analysis of latent spaces: topology, dimensionality
  • other application domains: joint applications of unsupervised anomaly detection
  • computer science: architecture development,
    e.g. for weakly supervised/unsupervised classification, uncertainty quantification, generative models for point-clouds
  • applied computer science: adaptation of deep learning models to FPGAs for fast inference
Publications
Prof. Sarah Heim (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • experimental high energy particle physics
  • LHC/ATLAS
  • Higgs boson
  • searches for beyond the Standard Model phenomena, including dark matter
  • electrons, jets
  • foundation models
  • anomaly detection
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • computer science/machine learning
  • photon physics
  • collider phenomenology
  • particle reconstruction
Publications
Prof. Christian Schwanenberger (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • production and properties of top quarks
  • interaction between top quarks and Higgs bosons
  • searches for dark matter at colliders
  • simplified dark matter models
  • extensions of the Higgs sector
  • searches for Dark Higgs
  • searches for supersymmetry
  • search for anomalous couplings
  • electron and photon identification
  • higher order calculations in collider phenomenlology
  • effective field theory
  • future colliders
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • particle collider phenomenology
  • cosmological implications of dark matter searches
  • machine learning techniques for searches for new physics
  • attribute learning
  • algorithms for particle reconstruction
Publications

Photon Science

Dr. Steve Aplin (EuXFEL)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • X-ray detector development    
  • detector simulation    
  • pattern recognition algorithms
  • inverse problems
  • data acquisition systems
  • real time data filtering
  • control systems
  • data management
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • high performance computing
  • signal processing
  • machine learning
  • pattern recognition algorithms
  • inverse problems
Publications
Prof. Sadia Bari (DESY)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • synchrotrons
  • free-electron lasers
  • (X)UV and X-ray spectroscopy
  • mass spectrometry of biomolecular ions
  • molecular physics
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules
    (peptides, proteins etc., interaction with water)
  • machine learning
  • pattern recognition algorithms
  • spectral calculations
Publications
Prof. Henry Chapman (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • coherent imaging and diffraction
  • phase retrieval
  • structure determination
  • crystallography
  • microscopy
  • wavefront sensing
  • X-ray free-electron lasers
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • signal processing
  • machine learning
  • high data rates
  • inverse problems and algorithms
  • ghost imaging
Publications
Prof. Markus Ilchen (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • ultrafast dynamics in chiral matter
  • ultrafast dynamics in atomic and small molecular systems
  • charged-particle spectroscopy of transient and ionic matter
  • nonlinear spectroscopy in the X-ray regime
  • (X)FEL-based studies of fundamental electron dynamics
  • attosecond X-ray science
  • dichroic behavior of matter under circularly polarized laser, synchrotron, and free-electronlaser radiation
  • fundamental quantum mechanics in atomic and molecular systems
  • beam diagnostics using photoemission spectroscopy
  • ultrafast electron diffraction on small and chiral molecules
  • dynamics in small water-doped molecules
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • machine learning
  • signal processing, filtering, and denoising
  • pattern recognition
  • automization algorithms of control systems
  • image processing in spectroscopy
Publications
Prof. Franz X. Kärtner (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • ultrashort pulse generation
  • nonlinear optics
  • quantum optics and quantum computing
  • high energy and power solid-state lasers
  • terahertz generation and acceleration
  • X-ray free-electron lasers
  • attosecond science
  • time and frequency distribution
  • integrated optics
  • integrated femtosecond lasers
  • photonic analog-to-digital conversion
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • high-performance computing
  • machine learning
  • nonlinear dynamics of ultrafast sources
  • modelling of ultrafast quantum pulse sources and quantum optical processes by stochastic differential equations
Publications
Dr. Guido Meier (MPSD)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • magnetism
  • spintronics
  • ultrafast transport
  • X-ray spectroscopy
  • coherent control of quantum systems
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • numerical algorithms for solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert differential equation
  • pump-probe techniques with synchrotron radiation
  • ptychographic techniques
Publications
Prof. Nina Rohringer (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • nonlinear X-ray science
  • attosecond physics
  • quantum optics
  • X-ray free electron lasers
  • collective radiative emission
  • X-ray spectroscopy
  • atomic, molecular and optical physics
  • nonlinear imaging techniques
  • quantum many-body problem
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • stochastic coupled differential equations
  • optimisation and regularisation algorithms
  • quantum computing algorithms
  • numerical algorithms for efficient solution of coupled partial (stochastic) differential equations
Publications
Prof. Robin Santra (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physics
  • theoretical chemical physics
  • computational physics
  • X-ray-induced processes
  • ultrafast laser-driven phenomena
  • applications of short-wavelength free-electron lasers
  • electronic-structure theory
  • non-hermiticity in quantum mechanics
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • machine learning
  • multiscale modeling
  • high-performance computing
  • software development
Publications
Prof. Christian Schroer (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • X-ray microscopy
  • X-ray optics
  • X-ray spectroscopy
  • image reconstruction
  • inverse problems
  • tomography
  • holographic phase problem
  • noise and information
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • inverse problems (mathematics)
  • denoising
  • machine learning
  • high-performance computing
  • data management
Publications
Prof. Andreas Stierle (DESY/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • surface science
  • solid state physics
  • atomic structure of nanoparticles
  • operando studies
  • combinatorial X-ray diffraction
  • surface sensitive X-ray methods
  • correlative microscopy
  • 3D reciprocal space mapping
  • electrochemistry
  • oxide surfaces
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • image pattern recognition
  • automatized data processing and analysis
  • automatized data acquisition and experimental control
Publications
Prof. Simone Techert (DESY)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • time-resolved X-ray Science (diffraction, scattering, spectroscopy)
  • high-flux X-ray sources
  • free-electron lasers
  • physical chemistry
  • kinetics
  • dynamics
  • reaction mechanisms
  • structural dynamics
  • energy research (harvesting, storage, release)
  • biochemical model reactions
  • water chemistry
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • machine learning
  • evolutionary computation
  • group theory
  • (nonlinearities in) statistics/stochastics
  • inverse problems
Publications
Prof. Beata Ziaja-Motyka (DESY)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • multidisciplinary theoretical research within ultrafast X-ray science:
    • ultrafast control of magnetic transitions with X-rays
    • X-ray induced optical and structural transitions in conventional and complex materials, including solid-to-plasma transitions
    • processing of material surfaces with X-rays
    • pico-to-nanosecond relaxation of X-ray irradiated materials
    • radiation damage studies of large biomolecules of potential interest for coherent diffraction imaging studies
  • scientific computing.
  • development of scientific software (https://xm.cfel.de/research/scientific_software)
Potential Match-Making Fields
Publications

Photon Science / Condensed Matter Physics

Prof. Kai Rossnagel (DESY)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • quantum materials
  • electronic structure
  • ultrafast dynamics
  • photoelectron spectroscopy
  • synchrotron/FEL radiation
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • data science methods
  • machine learning techniques
  • control theory
Publications

Photonics (Design of Metamaterials)

Dr. Alexander Itin (TUHH)
Research interests and expertise
  • photonics
  • metameterials
  • ultracold qunatum gases
Potential match-making fields
  • machine learning (predictive and generative models)
  • asymptotic methods
  • nonlinear dynamics
Publications

Physical Chemistry

Dr. Katharina Kubicek (UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • molecular physics and physical chemistry
  • functional molecular systems
  • ultrafast dynamics in the condensed and gas phase
  • solvation dynamics
  •  femtosecond optical laser systems
  • synchrotrons and X-ray free-electron lasers
  • steady state and time-resolved optical and x-ray spectroscopy
  • x-ray spectroscopy, scattering and instrumentation
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • machine learning applications for molecular systems
  • MD simulations (e.g., towards EXAFS interpretation)
  • computational problems in interpreting X-ray spectroscopy/scattering
  • XES simulations (Ray tracing, MC sims, etc.)
Publications

Structural Biology

Prof. Michael Kolbe (HZI/UHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • host/bacterial interactions
  • structure and function of protein transport systems
  • bacterial effector protein secretion mechanisms
  • biophysical hybrid approaches and synthetic biology
Potential Match-Making Fields
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Publications
Prof. Meytal Landau (DESY)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • amyloid fibrils
  • antimicrobial peptides
  • virulent amyloids
  • X-ray crystallography
  • electron microscopy
  • biophysics
  • biochemistry
  • structural bioinformatics
  • biofilms
  • microbial virulence
  • transmissible proteins
  • aggregation diseases
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • dynamic programming and artificial intelligence
  • microbiology
  • neurodegeneration
  • lipid-protein interactions
  • RNA/DNA-protein interactions. 
Publications
Prof. Holger Sondermann (DESY)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • structural biology (X-ray crystallography, X-ray scattering)
  • microbiology
  • signal transduction in biological systems
  • bacterial biofilm formation and cell growth
  • molecular infection processes
  • protein biochemistry and biophysics
  • membrane proteins
  • cell biology
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • X-ray imaging
  • molecular docking and computational modeling
  • time-resolved/dynamic structural biology
Publications

Theoretical Chemical Physics

Dr. Mariana Rossi (MPSD)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • atomistic simulations
  • quantum mechanics
  • statistical mechanics
  • machine-learning in materials
  • density-functional theory
  • path-integral methods
  • molecular dynamics
  • vibrational spectroscopy
  • molecular materials
  • weakly-bound materials
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • solid-state theory
  • quantum materials
  • out-of-equilibrium material properties
Publications
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Prof. Alexander Schlaich (TUHH)
Research Interests and Expertise
  • fluids at interfaces
  • molecular properties of water
  • physics of functional materials
Potential Match-Making Fields
  • machine learning for molecular simulations
  • chemistry, fluid/liquid interfaces
  • sustainable software development and FAIR data principles
Publications