I was selected to attend the “Attosecond meets Plasmonics” HERAEUS Workshop, held in Ecole de Physique des Houches.
A poster detailing the current development of the “Flirt-1D” simulation code was presented.
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Invited talk at EMRS Spring Meeting, Lille (2016)
A part of my current modeling works for laser-irradiated silicon will be presented at the European Materials Research Society (EMRS), Spring Meeting 2016, held in Lille, France.
Title of the talk will be Role of the electron-hole pair dynamics in modification of silicon upon femtosecond laser irradiation.
… See you in Lille, on the 6th of May 2016, 8h30 ! 🙂
Secondment period, started in Hamburg!
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg
I safely arrived to the Secondment Institution: Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter, in the Theory Group lead by Prof. Angel Rubio. I will work under supervision of Dr. Heiko Appel to train on advanced quantum simulations during the next 6 months, and generate new results during the next year, when I’m back to HiLASE, Prague.
Here is a picture of a nice part of the institute. Just click to enlarge.
First meeting at the secondment institution
Both Prof. Bulgakova and me presented our works to the MPSD group for the preparation of the 6 month secondment phase in Hamburg, Germany.
More details in the future publications with TD-DFT simulations ;o)
Outreach activity
The Czech Chapter of Marie Curie Alumni Association invited me to talk about my experience with application to MSCA H2020 program. Lot of useful information for future applicants to H2020 projects was also given. Next meeting may be held in Prague during Spring 2016. 
Surface Plasmon Polaritons in absorbing materials
In the context of QuantumLaP Work Package 4: “Dispersion relations for surface functionalization”, I developed a numerical tool (in Python) to investigate the properties of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with a wide selection of materials and laser wavelengths.
Feel free to ask your access and to start a fruitful collaboration.
All details are presented here on the code repository.
https://bitbucket.org/tjyderrien/spp-extended-theory
All the best,
Thibault
Opening the QuantumLaP website
Welcome to QuantumLaP.eu!
This website is the official communication platform of the Horizon 2020 European project “QuantumLaP”.
Nature writing Masterclass 2015
After being selected, I could attend to Nature Masterclass workshop held in Wroklaw (Poland) and organized by Academia Europaea.
The workshop was followed by a meeting presenting the Horizon 2020 call “Future Emergent Technologies” (FET) competition.
Project started !
QuantumLaP project officially started today!
Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship 2015: granted!
The “QuantumLaP” project has been approved by the Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions of the European Union.
As a consequence, I will be funded by Europe for two years to perform advanced numerical modeling using classical and quantum calculations to improve the knowledge and control over the femtosecond laser processing of matter.
The project is supervised by Prof. Nadezhda M. Bulgakova (Hilase, Prague) [1].
The work will be performed within HiLASE Centre, part of the Institute of Physics (located in Dolni Brezany, near from Prague, CZ), Academy of Science of the Czech Republic.
The fellowship also includes 6 months at the Max Planck Institute for Structures and Dynamics of matter (Hamburg, Germany) under supervision of Prof. Angel Rubio (Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of matter, Hamburg) [2], and Dr Heiko Appel (MPSD, Hamburg) [3].
Official press release is available at the Hilase Centre.
References
[1] Prof. Nadezhda M. Bulgakova (Biography | CV) from the Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (SB RAS), Novosibirsk.
[2] Prof. Angel Rubio (Biography | CV), Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of matter (MPSD, Hamburg, Germany), Fritz Haber Institute of Max Planck Society (FHI Berlin, Germany) and Nano-bio Spectroscopy Group (San Sebastian, Spain).
[3] Dr. Heiko Appel (CV), Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of matter (MPSD, Hamburg, Germany), Fritz Haber Institute of Max Planck Society (FHI Berlin, Germany) and Nano-bio Spectroscopy Group (San Sebastian, Spain)