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„Welcome Aboard“Research in fractions of a second: "We are only at the very beginning of the subject"Prof. Dr. Markus Ilchen strengthens physics

2 April 2024

Markus Ilchen vor unscharfem Hintergrund

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Prof. Dr. Markus Ilchen

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: experimental physicist Prof. Dr. Markus Ilchen.

Prof. Dr. Markus Ilchen came from the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) to UHH in the winter semester 2023/24 and took up his W2 professorship for "Experimental Physics, in particular X-ray Spectroscopy at Free-Electron Lasers" at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences.

Read what Markus Ilchen is currently working on, how the field is developing and what his hopes are for the future: Interview in German.

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