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Ursula Keller wins “Swiss Nobel” Marcel Benoist Prize- for pioneering work in ultrafast lasers

Farewell: the NCCR MUST ended - on June 30, 2022

MUST2022 Conference- a great success!

New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Wörner, Chergui, and Richardson

FELs of Europe prize for Jeremy Rouxel- “Development or innovative use of advanced instrumentation in the field of FELs”

Ruth Signorell wins Doron prizefor pioneering contributions to the field of fundamental aerosol science

New FAST-Fellow Uwe Thumm at ETH- lectures on Topics in Femto- and Attosecond Science

International Day of Women and Girls in Science- SSPh asked female scientists about their experiences

New scientific highlight- by MUST PIs Milne, Standfuss and Schertler

EU XFEL Young Scientist Award for Camila Bacellar,beamline scientist and group leader of the Alvra endstation at SwissFEL

Prizes for Giulia Mancini and Rebeca Gomez CastilloICO/IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics & Ernst Haber 2021

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to RESOLV Member Benjamin List- for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

Hans Jakob Wörner invited to give the „New Horizons Solvay Lectures” - online, October 5, 12 and 19

Unusual keynote talk at an international scientific conference- Do photons show gender bias?

NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021- Lightning, organic solar cells, and virtual molecules

2-D THz spectroscopy of electronic dynamics in narrow-band semiconductors

April 15, 2019 (more to follow)

Probing ballistic electrons and band curvatures with THz spectroscopy

The so-called “band structure” of solid-state materials determines how electrons move through them, and is often critical in understanding an even manipulating their conductive properties. Scientists at ETH Zurich have demonstrated a new method applying low-frequency electromagnetic pulses to drive electrons in a “ballistic” regime, using them to measure subtle features of the band structure.

Reference: S. Houver, L. Huber, M. Savoini, E. Abreu, and S. L. Johnson, 2D THz spectroscopic investigation of ballistic conduction-band electron dynamics in InSb, Vol. 27, No. 8, 15 Apr 2019, OPTICS EXPRESS, 10854 (https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.010854)