Dr. Ugaitz Elu

Dr. Ugaitz Elu
Group Leader
email: elu@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
phone: +49 (0)30 8413-5236
Department of Physical Chemistry
Fritz Haber Institute
Faradayweg 4-6
14195 Berlin
Germany
Research interests
- Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics
- High-Tc superconductivity
- Phase transitions
- Time-resolved spectroscopies
- Ultrafast dynamics of strongly correlated electron systems
- Ultrafast intense infrared fields
CV
Current Position
- Group leader of the Ultrafast Core-Level Spectroscopy group at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin
Research Positions
- 2023 – 2026: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin
Education
- Ph.D. in Experimental Physics, May 2022, “High-peak-power mid-infrared OPCPAs for extreme nonlinear photonics”, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya-UPC, Barcelona, Spain.
- Mentor: Prof. Dr. Jens Biegert
- MSc in Photonics, 2015, “Synchronized ultrashort pulse generation via self-phase modulation using a photonic crystal fiber for electro-optic sampling in the mid infrared”, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya-UPC, Barcelona, Spain.
- Mentor: Prof. Dr. Jens Biegert
- Diploma in physics, 2014, Universidad del País Vasco-EHU/UPV, Bilbao, Spain
Awards/Fellowships
- 2024 Doctoral Special Awards, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya-UPC, Barcelona, Spain
- 2023 The ICFO PhD Thesis Award, Barcelona, Spain