Dr. Christian Buth

Assistant Physicist

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA

Phone: +1-630-252-1397 • fax: +1-630-252-9303 • email: homepage @ christianbuth.name


Professional Experience

Assistant Physicist, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Group, X-Ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA, Since 2011
Assistant Physicist (term appointment), Theory Division, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, 2010–2011
Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar, The PULSE Institute for Ultrafast Energy Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA, 2009–2010
Postdoctoral Researcher with Professor Dr. Kenneth J. Schafer, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, 2008–2010
Postdoctoral Appointee with Professor Dr. Robin Santra, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA, 2006–2008
Postdoctoral Researcher, Guest Scientist in the Visitors Program, Max-Planck-Institut  für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany, 2005–2006

Education

Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany, 2002–2005
Doctorate in physics, advisor: Professor Dr. Peter Fulde, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, November 2005
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, physics, 1999–2002
Diploma in physics, advisor: Professor Dr. Lorenz S. Cederbaum, September 2002
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, 1999
Summer student, L3 Experiment, advisor: Dr. Thomas Paul
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, physics, 1998–1999
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, physics, 1996–1998

Scholarships, Awards, Grants, and Honors

Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, 7th European Community Framework Program (call identifier: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, proposal No. 266551), Research Executive Agency (REA), Brussels, Belgium, Since 2010
Ultrafast atomic and molecular physics at x-ray free electron lasers, € 100,000 for four years
Beam time proposal L166, Third LCLS call for proposals, Mats Larsson, Peter van der Meulen, Henning Schmidt, Richard Thomas, Raimund Feifel, Maria Novella Piancastelli, Matthias Hoener, Li Fang, B. Murphy, Nora Berrah, Ryan Coffee, Christian Buth, R. Richter, Kevin C. Prince, P. Bolognesi, M. Coreno, L. Avaldi, N. Saito, K. Nagaya, M. Yao, K. Motomura, Hironobu Fukuzawa, Kiyoshi Ueda, Motomichi Tashiro, Masahiro Ehara, Lorenz S. Cederbaum, 2009
Molecular double core-hole photoelectron spectroscopy for chemical analysis
Beam time proposal 11-08015, First LCLS call for proposals, Nora Berrah, Rene Bilodeau, Matthias Hoener, John Bozek, Ryan Coffee, Philip Buckbaum, Daniel Rolles, Louis DiMauro, Elliot Kanter, Stephen Pratt, Edwin Kukk, Oliver Gessner, Steve Leone, Christian Buth, Jan Michael Rost, Richard London, Stefan Hau Riege, Nina Rohringer, 2008
X-ray non-linear physics studies of molecules with intense ultrafast LCLS pulses
Beam time proposal 11-08027, First LCLS call for proposals, Ryan Coffee, John Bozek, Christian Buth, Marcus Hertlein, Markus Gühr, Nora Berrah, Ali Belkacem, Linda Young, Louis DiMauro, Hamed Merdji, Janos Hajdu, Philip H. Bucksbaum, 2008
X-ray multiple ionization of impulsively aligned molecules
Included in Who's Who in America, Since 2008
Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, 2006–2008
IBM-Zerner Fellowship, 45th Sanibel Symposium, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, 2005
Conference travel grant, German Research Foundation, Bonn, Germany, reference KON 324/2005, 2005
e-fellows.net scholarship, e-fellows.net GmbH & Co KG, München, Germany, 2001–2006
Scholarship for undergraduate students, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn, Germany, 1997–2002

Media Attention

Argonne scientists use lasers to align molecules; technique could revolutionize human protein imaging, Argonne National Laboratory press release 051308, Brock Cooper, 2008
Transparency spans into X-ray domain, Argonne News Vol. 60, No. 16, Jennifer Deangelis, 2007
Breakthrough With Ultra-Fast Xrays, www.PhysOrg.com/news102683602.html, Miranda Marquit, 2007
X-Ray Transparency, Physics News Update, Number 827 #2, June 6, 2007, Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, 2007

Invention

Robin Santra, Christian Buth, Linda Young, Laser-controlled x-ray pulse shaper based on electromagnetically induced transparency, invention number: ANL-IN-07-055, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA, 2007

Teaching Experience

Instructor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, Spring Semester, 2009
Taught General Physics for Engineering Students (Course No. PHYS 2102)
Teaching Assistant, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany, 2004–2006
Teaching Assistant, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 2003–2004

Community Outreach

18th Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, 2007
Chair of the session on “General Physics and Inorganic / Organic Chemistry”
Long Night of the Sciences, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany, 2003
Basic Computer Skills for Theologians, Theologisches Studienhaus Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 1998
Physics for Theologians, Theologisches Studienhaus Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 1997–1998

Professional Activities

Referee: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Journal of Physics B, European Physical Journal D, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, U.S. Department of Energy (Office of Basic Energy Sciences), Petroleum Research Fund
Memberships: American Physical Society

Computer Skills

Operating systems: Linux, Windows, Mac OS
Programming languages: C, C++, FORTRAN77/90/95, Java, Perl, HTML
Program packages: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Mathematica, LaTEX
Parallel computing: OpenMP, Message Passing Interface (MPI)

Additional Information

Languages: German (native), English (fluently), French (intermediate), Russian (basic), Latin (basic)
Elected head of the group of students with a Friedrich Ebert Scholarship in Heidelberg, Germany, 2000–2001
Web master of the group of students with a Friedrich Ebert Scholarship in Heidelberg, Germany, 1999–2000
Hobbies: jogging, reading, horse-back riding, hiking
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