SpeakerIsabella Gierz

Dr. Isabella Gierz studied physics at the Universities of Würzburg (Germany) and Grenoble (France) from 2001 to 2007. From 2007 to 2011 she was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (Germany) in the Department of Prof. Klaus Kern. She received my PhD degree in 2011 from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). From 2011 to 2013 she was a Postdoc in the Department of Prof. Andrea Cavalleri at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg (Germany). In 2011 she received the Otto Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society which allowed her to start her own independent research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg (Germany) in 2013.

Dr. Isabella Gierz am an expert in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, non-linear optics, and in situ growth of different low-dimensional materials. The main goal of my research is to control the electronic properties of solids with light. For that purpose her group uses strong-field (mid-) infrared pump pulses for electronic excitation, coherent modulation of the atomic positions, or coherent modulation of the momentum of the Bloch electrons in the solid. We then probe the transient electronic structure of these driven solids with time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy making use of extreme ultraviolet pulses that allow us to map the complete first Brillouin zone of the materials under investigation. abstract