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Christian Schroer
Lead Scientist of PETRA III
Christian Schroer leads the scientific programme of the PETRA III synchrotron radiation source and is Professor for X-ray Nanoscience and X-ray Optics at the University of Hamburg. His main field of research is X-ray microscopy and X-ray optics, which have a wide range of applications in physics, chemistry, life sciences, materials sciences, geosciences and nanotechnology.
As Lead Scientist of PETRA III, he focuses on the strategic development of the facility. In particular, he has led the development of the science case and the conceptual design of PETRA IV, DESY’s planned fourth-generation X-ray light source. As an X-ray microscopist, he works on DESY’s imaging strategy and is cofounder and speaker of Helmholtz Imaging, a platform of the Helmholtz Incubator Information & Data Science. His group develops X-ray microscopy for synchrotron radiation sources and X-ray free-electron lasers.
Academic career
| Since 2014 | Lead Scientist at DESY and Professor at the University of Hamburg |
| 2006-2014 | Professor for Structural Physics of Condensed Matter, Technical University of Dresden |
| 2004-2006 | Scientist at DESY and Lecturer at the University of Hamburg |
| 1998-2004 | Research and Teaching Associate, RWTH Aachen University (Habilitation 2004, Lecturer) |
| 1996-1998 | Postdoc, University of Maryland, USA |
| 1995-1996 | Postdoc, Institute for Solid State Physics Research (IFF), Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| 1992-1995 |
Doctoral Student, Institute for Solid State Research (IFF), Forschungszentrum Jülich PhD, University of Cologne (1995) |
| 1986-1992 | Study of Physics, RWTH Aachen University |
