Martin Aeschlimann is a Swiss professor of physics and the vice dean of the physics department at the University of Kaiserslautern.
Education
Aeschlimann studied experimental physics at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (1980–1985) and was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy in physics for his thesis "Magnetism at Surfaces and Ultrafast Magnetization Reversal Studies with Spin-Polarized Photoemission" in 1989.
Career
Since 2008 he is the spokesman of the State Center for Optics and Material Sciences (OPTIMAS). From 1985 to 1989 Aeschlimann was assistant to Professor H. C. Siegmann at the laboratory for solid-state physics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich.
From 1989 to 1990 he took a postdoctoral position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Washington, District of Columbia In November 1996 he habilitated with his thesis: "Time Resolved Studies of Electron Relaxation at Metal Surfaces" following his promotion to professor of experimental physics at the University of Duisburg-Essen In July 2000 he accepted a permanent position as professor and later in 2008 as Dean of the physics department at the University of Kaiserslautern.
He was later succeeded by Michael Fleischhauer and now officiates as Vice Dean of the physics department.
In addition, Aeschlimann was spokesperson of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) professional association on surface science (2008–2010). Aeschlimann"s research program is devoted to the investigation of ultrafast phenomena on surfaces of solids, thin films and nanoparticles. The focus is directed to the dynamics of electrons, phonons and spin in strongly correlated systems, magnetic materials and organic semiconductors.
Foreign the experimental approach, novel methods are constantly developed for measuring such ultrafast relaxation processes in real time with high temporal resolution.
Currently, time-resolved photoemission and time-resolved magneto-optical effects are implemented with laser pulses in visible light and the soft X-ray region.
Membership
From 1993 to 1998 he was a member of the research staff at the laboratory of technical chemistry at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. From 2002 to 2008 he was a member of the steering committee of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) priority programme 1133 "Ultrafast Magnetization Processes". Since 2008 he is spokesman of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) priority programme 1391 "Ultrafast Nanooptics", spokesman of the State Center for Optics and Material Sciences (OPTIMAS) and member of the Extended Advisory Board of the PULSE Institute at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Since 2009 he is also Member of the Editorial Board of the trade magazine New Journal of Physics.