Dr. Christian Brahms will use £2 million in funding to develop a groundbreaking light source for attosecond laser pulses, addressing limitations in Nobel Prize-winning technology. This research will advance the understanding of nature’s fastest processes.
A Heriot-Watt University scientist will receive more than £2 million ($2.6 million) in European funding to address gaps in Nobel Prize-winning technology.
Dr. Christian Brahms, an assistant professor and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Heriot-Watt University’s School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, will spend the next five years building a new type of light source for extremely fast laser pulses.
The aim is to capture nature’s fastest processes as they happen, at the rate of an attosecond – or a quintillionth of a second.
This could allow us to see some of the fastest processes in nature, like how plants absorb sunlight.
To read more, click here.