Lorenzo Colaizzi
Graduate student
Research
Lorenzo investigates the relaxation dynamics triggered by ultraviolet (UV) and extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses inside biologically relevant molecules such as DNA constituents, which occur on ultrafast time scale, up to attoseconds. His project addresses the design and the construction of a table-top Soft X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy setup which relies on the generation of X-Ray short pulses in the water window with attosecond time duration using High Harmonic Generation. Targeting nucleobases with the combination of the soft X and ultrashort UV pump pulses will allow the investigation of site specific dynamics in real time.
Academic Career
| Since 2018 | Graduate student at DESY in the FS-ATTO group. |
| 2017 |
Internship for master thesis at Attosecond laboratory in Politecnico di Milano Thesis: Attosecond time resolved spectroscopy for biologically-relevant molecules |
| 2014 - 2017 |
Master degree in Physics at Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II Specialized courses: photonics, quantum optics, electrodynamics, many body quantum mechanics, solid state physics |