Professor Dr. Christoph Lienau Professor of Experimental Physics Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg www.uno.uni-oldenburg.de; christoph.lienau@uni-oldenburg.de Personal Information

Date of Birth: May 02, 1963. Place of Birth: Göttingen, Germany. Marrital Status: Married to Christiane Lienau since 1990 Children: Theresa 1989, Jakob 1990 und David 1995 Higher education and professional experience

1982 – 1987 Study of Physics at the University of Göttingen, supervised by Prof. J. Troe (Institut für Physikalische Chemie), graduation 1987.

1987 – 1992 PhD thesis in Physical Chemistry with Prof. J. Troe at the University of Göttingen: "On the dynamics of photoisomerisation reactions in molecular beams: Fluorescence spectroscopy of t-Stilben und t-Stilben/solvent complexes", graduation “magna cum laude”

1992 Research associate at the Max-Planck-Institut for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen

1992 - 1994 Research Fellow in Chemistry at California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA) in the group of Prof. Ahmed H. Zewail.

1995 - 2006 Senior research scientist at Max-Born-Institut for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (Division C, Prof. Dr. T. Elsässer). Group leader "Ultrafast nano-optics".

2003 Habilitation in "Experimental Physics" with a thesis entitled "Optical near-field spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures" at the Humboldt University Berlin.

since 2006 Full professor in physics at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

2007-2009 Vice director, Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg

2009-2013 Director, Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg

since 2011 Visiting professor, Seoul National University, Korea

Professional Activities (selection)

• Vice-Chair Fachverband Halbleiterphysik der DPG (German Physical Society), since 2011

• Director, Institute of Physics , U Oldenburg, 2009-2013, Vice-director 2007-2009, since 2013

• Elected Member of the Senate of the University of Oldenburg and of the Council of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

• In Oldenburg, I initiated an activity bringing nanotechnology education into high schools . In close collaboration with the Alte Gymnasium Oldenburg, a nanotechnology laboratory for high school students will open in 2014, comprising, e.g., home-built STMs and AFMs.

• Editorial board member , Springer Series in Nanooptics and Nanophotonics

• Organizer of several international conferences and workshops

• Reviewer for the German Science Foundation (DFG), National Science Foundation (USA), Department of Energy (USA), Technologiestichting STW, Swiss National Funds, German Israeli Foundation for Research and Development, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Carl-Zeiss Foundation, …

• Regular Referee for Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Optics Communications, Applied Phyiscs Letters, Mathematic Reviews, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Applied Physics B, Nanotechnology, physica status solidi, New Journal of

Physics, Journal of Microscopy, Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Optics, Applied Physics A, Phys. Lett. A, Journal of Physics D, ...

• Service on Conference Committees , including International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics, European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, International Conference on Defects-Recognition, Imaging and Physics in Semiconductors, International Conference on Near-Field Optics, …

• Member of the German Physical Society, Optical Society of America, American Physical Society and Materials Research Society

• Principal Investigator, Strategic Japanese-German Cooperative Program on Nanoelectronics , with M. Othsu (University of Tokyo), 2008-2012

• Principal Investigator, Global Research Laboratory (GRL) Programme , Nano-Plasmonic Integrated Circuits for Ultra-fast Information Processing, with N. K. Park (Seoul National University), since 2009

• Principal Investigator, DFG-NSF Materials Network Programme , Understanding and controlling optical excitations in individual hybrid nanostructures, with G. J. Salamo (U Arkansas), since 2010

• Principal Investigator, DFG Priority Programme "Ultrafast Nanooptics" , since 2009

• Principal Investigator, DARPA, “Quantum effects in biological environments” , with P. J. Hore (U Oxford), since 2010

• Principal Investigator, EU-FP7, “CRONOS – Modelling Ultrafast Dynamics in Materials ”, with S. Sanvito (TC Dublin), since 2012

Fellowships, Awards and Honours

2013 Fellow of the Optical Society of America 2011 Call as a Full Professor in Experimental Physics, University of Münster, declined. 2008 Call as Director of the Institute for Nanoscale Material Science and Engineering,

University of Arkansas, USA, declined. 1993 – 1994 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft with A. H. Zewail,

Caltech, USA.

Research Interests

It is my interest to probe the motion of charges, spins and nuclei in solid state and biological nanostructures on ultrasmall length and ultrashort time scales. In-depth knowledge about such motions is necessary to decipher the interplay between structure and function of technologically and biologically relevant nanostructures. To gain such knowledge, my group develops, implements and applies spectroscoscopic techniques providing nanometer spatial and atto- to femtosecond temporal resolution.

Publications (5 recent papers out of > 150 in refer eed journals; Metrics: >4000 Citations, h:33)

1. B. Piglosiewicz, S. Schmidt, D. J. Park, J. Vogelsang, P. Groß, C. Manzoni, P. Farinello, G. Cerullo, and C. Lienau , Carrier-envelope phase effects on the strong-field photoemission of electrons from metallic nanostructures, Nature Photonics doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.288 (2013).

2. C. A. Rozzi, S. M. Falke, N. Spallanzani, A. Rubio, E. Molinari, D. Brida, M. Mauri, G. Cerullo, H. Schramm, J. Christoffers, and C. Lienau , Quantum coherence controls the charge separation in a prototypical artificial light harvesting system, Nature Communications 4, 1602 (2013).

3. P. Vasa, W. Wang, R. Pomraenke, M. Lammers, M. Maiuri, C. Manzoni, G. Cerullo, and C. Lienau , Real-time observation of ultrafast Rabi oscillations between excitons and plasmons in J-aggregate/metal hybrid nanostructures, Nature Photonics 4, 128 (2013).

4. D. J. Park, B. Piglosiewicz, S. Schmidt, H. Kollmann, M. Mascheck, and C. Lienau , Strong Field Acceleration and Steering of Ultrafast Electron Pulses from a Sharp Metallic Nanotip, Physical Review Letters 109, 244803 (2012).

5. M. Mascheck, S. Schmidt, M. Silies, T. Yatsui, K. Kitamura, M. Ohtsu, D. Leipold, E. Runge, and C. Lienau , Observing the localization of light in space and time by ultrafast second-harmonic microscopy, Nature Photonics 6, 293 (2012).