Professor Jörgen Larsson, new LINXS Co-Director: LINXS can support a bridging between X-ray, neutron and laser communities

LINXS welcomed Professor Jörgen Larsson as new LINXS Co-Director already in July.

He is responsible for LINXS focus area of hard matter, and is a professor and the head of the division for Atomic Physics at the Dept. of Physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University. His research topic is ultrafast dynamics on the timescale of a phonon period in hard condensed matter. He teaches both basic and advanced courses at LTH. He has been responsible for building the beamline FemtoMAX at MAX IV and is a frequent user of Synchrotron radiation facilities (including MAX IV) and Free-electron lasers.

Professor Jörgen Larsson started as a new LINXS Co-Director already in July.

– I have been working with synchrotron radiation since the mid 1990-ies and my particular line of experiments is ultrafast dynamics in solids. In this type of research, lasers are used to perturb the system and X-rays used to probe the laser-modified structure. Lasers are being used to manipulate samples in many ways at many facilities. Lasers will play an even larger role for both the X-ray and neutron scattering communities in the future. Efforts to bring these communities closer to the large laser community will be supported by my work within LINXS.