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Saša Bajt

Advanced Multilayer X-ray Optics

Saša Bajt leads the Advanced Multilayer X-ray Optics Group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY. Her work focuses on the development of novel X-ray optics based on thick multilayers, such as high numerical aperture multilayer Laue lenses, which can focus intense X-rays from synchrotron radiation sources and X-ray free electron lasers to a few nanometres, a size comparable to a single protein molecule.

The intensities that one can produce with such small beams will bring X-ray imaging methods like microscopy and holography to new levels. She is also developing new X-ray wavefront characterization techniques to improve multilayer deposition process for high-precision X-ray lenses and studying properties of these nanolayered structures.

 

Academic career

since 2024 Leading Scientist at DESY
2008 - 2024 Physicist and Group Leader, DESY
1996 - 2008 Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA
1994 - 1996 Research Scientist, University of Chicago, USA
1991 - 1994 Research Associate, University of Chicago, USA
1990 - 1991 Postdoc, Max-Plack-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
1987 - 1990 PhD, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg
1987 Diploma in Physics, University of Ljubljana

 

Memberships

2023 SPIE Senior Member (International Society for Optics and Photonics)
since 2022 Chair of the X-ray Microscopy International Advisory Committee
since 2019 General Chair of SPIE Europe: Optics+Optoelectronics
2018 Fellow of the Optical Society OSA

 

Awards

2022 DESY Innovation Award
2021 Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia
2018 Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society 2018 Award
2018 Microscopy Today Innovation Award
2013 NASA Group Achievement Award
2003 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award
1999 Hawley Medal (Mineralogical Association of Canada)

 

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