Biography:

Dr. Peter Hommelhoff is professor of physics at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany. He received the diploma in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 1999 and the PhD in physics from University of Munich (LMU) in 2002.  From 2004 through 2007 he was postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. From 2007 to 2012 he ran a Max Planck Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching/Munich. In May 2012 he received the habilitation in physics from LMU Munich. Since 2012 he holds the Chair for Laser Physics at Friedrich Alexander University and, since 2018, is Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen. Hommelhoff has received an ERC Consolidator Grant and an ERC Advanced Grant. He was, amongst others, member of the board of the DFG Cluster of Excellence Munich Centre for Advanced Photonics, was Trimble Fellow of the Stanford Center for Position, Navigation and Time, and Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2018, he was visiting professor at Stanford University. In 2022, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the DFG.  His main current research interests include light-matter interactions on extremely fast time scales (femto- and attoseconds). His work focuses on electron acceleration with laser light at photonic nanostructures, on strong-field physics at the surface of and inside of solids, and on quantum-enhanced electron microscopy.

LECTURE: "Coupling swift electrons and light efficiently"

TALK: "Ultrafast games with free electrons: coherence and correlations"