Nobel Laureate Anne L’Huillier visited the University of Freiburg and the research group of Prof. Dr. G. Sansone on March 13, 2025.

See here: https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/31-hermann-staudinger-lecture-anne-lhuillier/

Welcome to our new research assistant Kobi Hall!
Dec. 2025

Five QU-ATTO doctoral candidates participated in their first beamtimes, which took place at the Low Density Matter (LDM) beamline and the Elastic and Inelastic Scattering (EIS) TIMER beamline hosted at FERMI; using attosecond pulses generated by the seeded free-electron laser, they investigated atoms, molecules, and thin films.

During these experiments, the doctoral candidates had the opportunity to meet and discuss with other PIs of the network, get to know each other, exchange ideas, and collaborate closely on their first joint research activities.

Entanglement in photoionisation reveals the effect of ionic coupling in attosecond time delays
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64182-8
Our study shows that field-induced ionic coupling in CO₂ molecules introduces an additional time delay in the emission of photoelectrons. This effect originates from the entanglement between the photoelectron and the parent ion created in the photoionisation process.

Gopika Nisha Gopalan

Welcome to our new Bachelorstudent Atef Patrick Hamzeh!

Welcome to our new Masterstudents Yunhao und Madhav!

The QU-ATTO Doctoral Network officially kicked off with a successful virtual meeting on Friday, September 6th, 2024.
Funded by the Horizon Europe Programme, QU-ATTO is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Training Network that unites 14 academic institutions, three large-scale facilities, four industrial companies, and two outreach partners across 10 European countries.
We are accepting applications from talented and motivated doctoral candidates eager to advance the fields of quantum information and attosecond science.
Learn more and apply here: https://quatto.eu/recruitment/

Welcome to our new Masterstudents Samuel, Simon and Paul!

Start QU-ATTO Netzwerk

In the framework of the recently funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Training Network Quantum information science and Ultrafast nonlinear coherent control at the ATTOsecond timescale (QU-ATTO), we offer 15 PhD positions in the field of attosecond and quantum information science.
The network runs from 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2028 and is funded under the Horizon Europe programme.
The PhD students will work on state-of-the-art projects under the supervision of internationally renowned leading experts in the field. The candidates will be exposed to different scientific environments, including small laboratories, large facilities, research laboratories in the private sector and outreach centres.

The QU-ATTO network will provide a wide range of training activities including webinars, scientific courses and specific research training modules offered by the different partners of the network. The training programme will be complemented by three schools on outreach activities,cutting-edge scientific topics and innovation management, which will be offered during the lifetime of the network.

For more information on the network, interested candidates are invited to visit the website at:
https://quatto.eu/
The available positions with the corresponding PhD projects can be found on the website:
https://quatto.eu/recruitment/
For each PhD position, a CV, letter of motivation and transcript of records are required. The documents should be sent to the email addres of the contact person of the corresponding PhD project or submitted through the corresponding job platform. Deadline for applications is 30.09.2024.

Eligibility criteria

Doctoral Candidates
Supported researchers must be doctoral candidates, i.e. not already in possession of a doctoral degree at the date of the recruitment. Researchers who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree will not be considered eligible.

Mobility Rule
Researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting beneficiary for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their date of recruitment. Compulsory national service, short stays such as holidays, and time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Conventionare not taken into account. For international European research organisations, international organisations, or entities created under Union law, recruited researchers must not have spent more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their date of recruitment in the same appointing organisation.
Note that the mobility rule applies to the (first) beneficiary where the researcher is recruited. In case of multiple recruitments, the mobility rule only applies to the first recruitment. Date of Recruitment means the first day of the employment of the researcher for the purposes of the action (i.e. the starting date indicated in the employment contract or equivalent direct contract).

About MSCA Doctoral Networks
The aim of Doctoral Networks is to implement doctoral programmes through partnerships of organisations from different sectors across Europe and beyond, in order to train highly qualified doctoral candidates, stimulate their creativity, enhance their capacity for innovation and improve their long-term employability.

QU-ATTO has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101168628

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.