Dr. Kirsten Andrea Schnorr

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Group leader Maloja

Paul Scherrer Institut
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland
Telephone
+41 56 310 27 86

Kirsten Schnorr received her PhD in physics in 2014 from Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg on XUV Pump-Probe Experiments on Electron Rearrangement and Interatomic Coulombic Decay in Diatomic Molecules under PD Dr .Robert Moshammer at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics. In 2015 she was awarded a Peter Paul Ewald Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation for studying non-linear relaxation processes in real time, which she carried out in the Physical Chemistry Department at University of California Berkeley in the group of Prof. Dr. Stephen Leone.

    Since 2018, Kirsten has joined the SwissFEL team to work on a new endstation for atomic, molecular and non-linear physics, the Maloja instrument. She was responsible for designing, building and bringing the endstation into operation.

    Kirsten is interested in atomic, molecular and nonlinear science with XUV and X-ray radiation. Specifically, she studies photo-induced ultrafast relaxation mechanisms in atoms, molecules and nanoparticles by performing time-resolved experiments at Free-Electron Lasers and High Harmonic Generation sources. One of her main research interests is to understand and steer non-local relaxation processes, like Interatomic Coulombic Decay and Electron Mediated Decay, by exploiting the multi color pump-probe schemes with ultrashort X-ray pulses. 

    For an extensive overview we kindly refer you to one of the following publication repositories Google Scholar, ORCID and DORA.

     

    • Wang G, Dijkstal P, Reiche S, Schnorr K, Prat E
      Millijoule femtosecond X-ray pulses from an efficient fresh-slice multistage free-electron laser
      Physical Review Letters. 2024; 132(3): 035002 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.035002
      DORA PSI
    • Pradervand C, Rosenberg C, Eckerlin H-J, Schnorr K, Al Haddad A, Wiegand P, et al.
      A compact gas attenuator for the SwissFEL ATHOS beamline realized using additive manufacturing
      Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2023; 30(4): 717-722. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577523004241
      DORA PSI
    • Prat E, Al Haddad A, Arrell C, Augustin S, Boll M, Bostedt C, et al.
      An X-ray free-electron laser with a highly configurable undulator and integrated chicanes for tailored pulse properties
      Nature Communications. 2023; 14: 5069 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40759-z
      DORA PSI
    • Schnorr K, Belina M, Augustin S, Lindenblatt H, Liu Y, Meister S, et al.
      Direct tracking of ultrafast proton transfer in water dimers
      Science Advances. 2023; 9(28): eadg7864 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg7864
      DORA PSI
    • Hinger V, al Haddad A, Barten R, Bergamaschi A, Brückner M, Carulla M, et al.
      Advancing the JUNGFRAU detector toward low-energy X-ray applications
      Journal of Instrumentation. 2022; 17(9): C09027 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/09/C09027
      DORA PSI
    • Prat E, Dijkstal P, Ferrari E, Ganter R, Juranić P, Malyzhenkov A, et al.
      Widely tunable two-color x-ray free-electron laser pulses
      Physical Review Research. 2022; 4(2): L022025 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L022025
      DORA PSI
    • Sun Z, Al Haddad A, Augustin S, Knopp G, Knurr J, Schnorr K, et al.
      Ultrafast single-particle imaging with intense X-ray pulses
      Chimia. 2022; 76(6): 529-537. https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2022.529
      DORA PSI
    • Meister S, Bondy A, Schnorr K, Augustin S, Lindenblatt H, Trost F, et al.
      Linear dichroism in few-photon ionization of laser-dressed helium
      European Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics. 2021; 75(7): 205 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00218-0
      DORA PSI
    • Rebholz M, Ding T, Despré V, Aufleger L, Hartmann M, Meyer K, et al.
      All-XUV pump-probe transient absorption spectroscopy of the structural molecular dynamics of di-iodomethane
      Physical Review X. 2021; 11(3): 031001 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031001
      DORA PSI
    • Cheng Y-C, Oostenrijk B, Lahl J, Maclot S, Augustin S, Schmid G, et al.
      Imaging multiphoton ionization dynamics of CH3I at a high repetition rate XUV free-electron laser
      Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2020; 54(1): 014001 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/abc6bc
      DORA PSI
    • Meister S, Lindenblatt H, Trost F, Schnorr K, Augustin S, Braune M, et al.
      Atomic, molecular and cluster science with the reaction microscope endstation at FLASH2
      Applied Sciences. 2020; 10(8): 2953 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3390/APP10082953
      DORA PSI
    • Meister S, Bondy A, Schnorr K, Augustin S, Lindenblatt H, Trost F, et al.
      Photoelectron spectroscopy of laser-dressed atomic helium
      Physical Review A. 2020; 102(6): 062809 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.102.062809
      DORA PSI
    • Menzi S, Knopp G, Al Haddad A, Augustin S, Borca C, Gashi D, et al.
      Generation and simple characterization of flat, liquid jets
      Review of Scientific Instruments. 2020; 91(10): 105109 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0007228
      DORA PSI
    • Abela R, Alarcon A, Alex J, Arrell C, Arsov V, Bettoni S, et al.
      The SwissFEL soft X-ray free-electron laser beamline: Athos
      Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2019; 26(4): 1073-1084. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577519003928
      DORA PSI
    • Ganter R, Aeppli G, Alex J, Al Haddad A, Arrell C, Arsov V, et al.
      Status of Athos, the soft X-ray FEL line of SwissFEL
      In: Decking W, Sinn H, Geloni G, Schreiber S, Marx M, Schaa VRW, eds. 39th international free-electron laser conference. FEL2019. Proceedings. Vol. 39. Free electron laser conference. Geneva: JACoW Publishing; 2019:753-756. https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-THP085
      DORA PSI
    • Schmid G, Schnorr K, Augustin S, Meister S, Lindenblatt H, Trost F, et al.
      Reaction microscope endstation at FLASH2
      Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2019; 26(3): 854-867. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577519002236
      DORA PSI
    • Schmid G, Schnorr K, Augustin S, Meister S, Lindenblatt H, Trost F, et al.
      Terahertz-field-induced time shifts in atomic photoemission
      Physical Review Letters. 2019; 122(7): 073001 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.073001
      DORA PSI
    • Schmid G, Schnorr K, Augustin S, Meister S, Lindenblatt H, Trost F, et al.
      Tracing charge transfer in argon dimers by XUV-pump IR-probe experiments at FLASH
      Journal of Chemical Physics. 2019; 151(8): 084314 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5116234
      DORA PSI
    • Bhattacherjee A, Schnorr K, Oesterling S, Yang Z, Xue T, de Vivie-Riedle R, et al.
      Photoinduced heterocyclic ring opening of furfural: distinct open-chain product identification by ultrafast X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy
      Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2018; 140(39): 12538-12544. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b07155
      DORA PSI
    • Yang Z, Schnorr K, Bhattacherjee A, Lefebvre PL, Epshtein M, Xue T, et al.
      Electron-withdrawing effects in the photodissociation of CH2ICl to form CH2Cl radical, simultaneously viewed through the carbon K and chlorine L2,3 X-ray edges
      Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2018; 140(41): 13360-13366. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b08303
      DORA PSI