Emil Zak
Research associate
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Notkestrasse 85 (building 49a, room 212)
22607 Hamburg
Germany
CMI theory
Research
My leading project focuses on investigating the effect of rotationally-induced chirality in the gas phase molecules. With high-accuracy first-principles simulations of rotational-vibrational dynamics I am developing procedures for creating, manipulating and detecting dynamic chirality.
Curriculum Vitae
| 04/2019 - present | Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL), DESY, Hamburg |
| 01/2018 - 01/2019 | Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen’s University, Department of Chemistry, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Computational quantum dynamics group |
| 09/2014 - 09/2017 | PhD in Theoretical Physics at University College London, London, UK Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Positron Physics Group (J. Tennyson) Thesis entitled: Theoretical rotational-vibrational and rotational-vibrational-electronic spectroscopy of triatomic molecules |
| 10/2011 - 10/2013 | MSc Theoretical Chemistry at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Organic semiconductors group (P. Petelenz) Thesis entitled: Model of intraband relaxation of Frenkel excitons in Sexithiophene crystal |
| 10/2008 - 10/2011 | BSc Chemistry at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland |