Saša Bajt is a Slovenian scientist and group leader at the

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (English ''German Electron Synchrotron''), commonly referred to by the abbreviation DESY, is a national research center in Germany. It operates particle accelerators used to investigate the structure of matt ...

, where she develops multi-layer mirrors for X-ray applications such as Laue lenses. . She is a regular collaborator of the

European XFEL The European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL) is an X-ray research laser facility commissioned during 2017. The first laser pulses were produced in May 2017 and the facility started user operation in September 2017. The interna ...

Education and career

Saša Bajt received her B. Sc. in Physics from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, before pursuing a PhD at the

Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics The Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik ("MPI for Nuclear Physics" or MPIK for short) is a research institute in Heidelberg, Germany. The institute is one of the 80 institutes of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society), an independent, n ...

and Heidelberg University in Germany. She then joined the University of Chicago as a research scientist, working on X-ray fluorescence microscopy and micro X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS). She joined

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

where she worked on the development of multilayer mirrors for

Extreme ultraviolet lithography Extreme ultraviolet lithography (also known as EUV or EUVL) is an optical lithography technology used in steppers, machines that make integrated circuits (ICs) for computers and other electronic devices. It uses a range of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) ...

and X-ray Free-electron laser experiments. In 2008, she joined the

Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (English ''German Electron Synchrotron''), commonly referred to by the abbreviation DESY, is a national research center in Germany. It operates particle accelerators used to investigate the structure of matt ...

(DESY) in Hamburg, Germany as the group leader for X-ray optics in extreme conditions. She is married to the British physicist

Henry N. Chapman Henry N. Chapman FRS (born 1967) is a British physicist and the founding director of thCenter for Free-Electron Laser Scienceat the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY). He has made numerous contributions to the field of x-ray coherent diffraction ...

Awards and Honors

* 2023 Honored as Senior Member of SPIE * 2019 Fellow of the Optical Society of America * 2018 Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society Award * 1999 Hawley medal

References

External links

Saša Bajt homepage – DESY
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