Biography:Majed Chergui

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Professor

Majed Chergui
EPFL 2020 Majed Chergui Portrait 1.jpg
Majed Chergui in 2020
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Casablanca, Morocco
Known forUltrafast X-ray spectroscopy
Ultrafast 2-dimensional and circular dichroism spectroscopy
AwardsACS Ahmed Zewail Award 2021
RSC Liversidge Award 2019
Khwarizmi International Award 2018
Edward Stern Prize for Lifetime Achievements 2015
Humboldt Research Award 2010
APS Earle L. Plyler Award 2015
A. von Humboldt Research Award 2010
KFAS Kuwait Prize for Physics 2009
Academic background
EducationPhysics
Mathematics
Alma materUniversity of London
Paris-Sud University, Orsay
Université Paris Nord
Doctoral advisorJacques Bauche
Other academic advisorsVenkataraman Chandrasekharan
Nikolaus Schwentner
Academic work
DisciplinePhysics
Sub-disciplineAtomic physics
Molecular physics
InstitutionsEPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/labs/lsu/

Majed Chergui (born 1956 in Casablanca) is a Swiss and French physicist specialized in ultrafast dynamics of light-induced processes. He is a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), head of the Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy at EPFL's School of Basic Sciences, and founding director of the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS).[1][2]

Career

Chergui was born in Casablanca (Morocco), and grew up in Algeria and Lebanon. He studied physics and mathematics at the Chelsea College at University of London and received his bachelor's degree in 1977. In 1978, he received a master's degree in atomic and molecular physics from Paris-Sud University, Orsay. He then joined Jacques Bauche at the same university as a PhD student and graduated in 1981. In 1986, he received a Doctorat d'État (habilitation) under supervision of Venkataraman Chandrasekharan at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.[3] In 1987, he joined the group of Nikolaus Schwentner as a Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Experimental Physics of the Free University of Berlin.[4][5] Three years later he became a senior research assistant at the same institute.[6] In 1993 he was appointed as full professor of experimental condensed matter physics at the University of Lausanne, where he stayed until 2003.[7][8]

In 2003, he was appointed as full professor of physics and chemistry at EPFL and head of the Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy at EPFL's School of Basic Sciences.[1][9]

In 1996, he was guest professor at National University of Quilmes in Buenos Aires, Argentina ,[10] and from 1999 to 2000 research associate at the American University of Beirut. He was twice Alexander von Humboldt Guest Professor at the Max-Born-Institut and at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (2009–2010), and at the Fritz-Haber-Institut (2016–2017) in Berlin.

Research

Chergui's research interest are the description of the ultrafast dynamics of light-induced processes in molecules, solids and proteins, and in metallic and semiconductor nanostructured materials.[11][12][13] He uses ultrafast spectroscopy to achieve real time visualizations of light-induced nuclear, spin and electronic dynamics .[14] The latter include structural changes in diverse systems (molecules, proteins, solids), the influence of local electric fields on the spectral and dynamical features of molecular centers,[15][16] and the charge carriers dynamics in semiconductor, metallic nanostructures and solids.[17][18] To these aims, he develops and improves new tools in ultrafast (picosecond and femtosecond) transient absorption spectroscopy;[19][20] ultrafast fluorescence up-conversion spectroscopy;[21] photon-echo spectroscopy; and[22] 2-dimensional[23][24][25] and circular dichroism spectroscopy.[26] He pioneered the development of ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy using pulses from a synchrotron[27] or from a X-ray Free electron Laser (XFEL).[28]

Distinctions

Chergui is the recipient of the 2021 Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology from the American Chemical Society,[29] the 2019 Liversidge Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry,[30] the 2018 Khwarizmi International Award,[31] the Edward Stern Prize for Lifetime Achievements 2015,[32] the 2015 Earle L. Plyler Award of the American Physical Society,[33] the 2010 Humboldt Research Award,[34] the 2009 Kuwait Prize for Physics,[35] the 2007 Rammal Medal by the Euroscience Foundation,[36] and the 2002 Miller Award.[8] He is also recipient of the 1986 Bronze Medal of the CNRS (France).

He is a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), a member of the Academy of Arab Scientists (2020), an Elettra Distinguished Scientist (2020) (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste), and Foreign Correspondent of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences. He is also a fellow of The Optical Society of America, and fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Crystallographic Association (ACA), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the European Physical Society (EPS).[8]

He is the founder of the journal Structural Dynamics, and was its Editor in Chief between 2014 and 2020.[5] Prior to that, he was editor in chief of the journal Chemical Physics between 2009 and 2014.[37]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy LSU" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lsu/. 
  2. ↑ "Groups involved in Lacus" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/lacus/groups/. 
  3. ↑ Silvi, B.; Chandrasekharan, V.; Chergui, M.; Etters, R. D. (15 February 1986). "Frequency shifts of vibrational and rotational states of dilute H 2 , D 2 , and HD impurities in solid Ar under pressure" (in en). Physical Review B 33 (4): 2749–2756. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.33.2749. ISSN 0163-1829. PMID 9938615. Bibcode: 1986PhRvB..33.2749S. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.33.2749. 
  4. ↑ Chergui, M.; Schwentner, N.; Chandrasekharan, V. (December 1987). "Vibrationally "hot" valence luminescence of NO in Ne matrices" (in en). Journal of Luminescence 38 (1–6): 150–151. doi:10.1016/0022-2313(87)90090-1. Bibcode: 1987JLum...38..150C. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0022231387900901. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Editorial Board". https://aca.scitation.org/sdy/info/editors. 
  6. ↑ Reaction dynamics in clusters and condensed phases : proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Jerusalem Symposium on Quantum Chemistry and Biochemistry held in Jerusalem, Israel, May 17–20, 1993. Jortner, Joshua., Levine, Raphael D., Pullman, Bernard, 1919–. Dordrecht: Springer. 1994. ISBN 978-94-011-0786-0. OCLC 847669757. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847669757. 
  7. ↑ Saes, Melanie; van Mourik, Frank; Gawelda, Wojciech; Kaiser, Maik; Chergui, Majed; Bressler, Christian; Grolimund, Daniel; Abela, Rafael et al. (January 2004). "A setup for ultrafast time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy" (in en). Review of Scientific Instruments 75 (1): 24–30. doi:10.1063/1.1633003. ISSN 0034-6748. Bibcode: 2004RScI...75...24S. http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1633003. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "CV – Chergui". https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lsu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CV_Chergui.pdf. 
  9. ↑ (in fr) Nanoparticules : modification de leur taille et leur forme. 13 November 2003. https://actu.epfl.ch/news/nanoparticules-modification-de-leur-taille-et-leur/. 
  10. ↑ "MEMORIA 2003". http://unq.edu.ar/advf/documentos/502c147163486.PDF. 
  11. ↑ "Research" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lsu/research/. 
  12. ↑ Mewes, Lars; Wang, Mao; Ingle, Rebecca A.; Börjesson, Karl; Chergui, Majed (December 2020). "Energy relaxation pathways between light-matter states revealed by coherent two-dimensional spectroscopy" (in en). Communications Physics 3 (1): 157. doi:10.1038/s42005-020-00424-z. ISSN 2399-3650. Bibcode: 2020CmPhy...3..157M. 
  13. ↑ Gatti, G.; Crepaldi, A.; Puppin, M.; Tancogne-Dejean, N.; Xian, L.; De Giovannini, U.; Roth, S.; Polishchuk, S. et al. (12 August 2020). "Light-Induced Renormalization of the Dirac Quasiparticles in the Nodal-Line Semimetal ZrSiSe" (in en). Physical Review Letters 125 (7): 076401. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.076401. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 32857568. Bibcode: 2020PhRvL.125g6401G. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.076401. 
  14. ↑ Szlachetko, Jakub; Sá, Jacinto; Nachtegaal, Maarten; Hartfelder, Urs; Dousse, Jean-Claude; Hoszowska, Joanna; Abreu Fernandes, Daniel Luis; Shi, Hongqing et al. (2 January 2014). "Real Time Determination of the Electronic Structure of Unstable Reaction Intermediates during Au 2 O 3 Reduction" (in en). The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 5 (1): 80–84. doi:10.1021/jz402309s. ISSN 1948-7185. PMID 26276184. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jz402309s. 
  15. ↑ Wolf, T. J. A.; Myhre, R. H.; Cryan, J. P.; Coriani, S.; Squibb, R. J.; Battistoni, A.; Berrah, N.; Bostedt, C. et al. (December 2017). "Probing ultrafast ππ*/nπ* internal conversion in organic chromophores via K-edge resonant absorption" (in en). Nature Communications 8 (1): 29. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00069-7. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 28642477. Bibcode: 2017NatCo...8...29W. 
  16. ↑ Leonard, J.; Portuondo-Campa, E.; Cannizzo, A.; Mourik, F. v.; van der Zwan, G.; Tittor, J.; Haacke, S.; Chergui, M. (12 May 2009). "Functional electric field changes in photoactivated proteins revealed by ultrafast Stark spectroscopy of the Trp residues" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (19): 7718–7723. doi:10.1073/pnas.0812877106. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 19416877. Bibcode: 2009PNAS..106.7718L. 
  17. ↑ Bonati, C.; Mohamed, M. B.; Tonti, D.; Zgrablic, G.; Haacke, S.; van Mourik, F.; Chergui, M. (26 May 2005). "Spectral and dynamical characterization of multiexcitons in colloidal CdSe semiconductor quantum dots" (in en). Physical Review B 71 (20): 205317. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.71.205317. ISSN 1098-0121. Bibcode: 2005PhRvB..71t5317B. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.71.205317. 
  18. ↑ Baldini, Edoardo; Palmieri, Tania; Dominguez, Adriel; Ruello, Pascal; Rubio, Angel; Chergui, Majed (8 August 2018). "Phonon-Driven Selective Modulation of Exciton Oscillator Strengths in Anatase TiO 2 Nanoparticles" (in en). Nano Letters 18 (8): 5007–5014. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01837. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 30040906. Bibcode: 2018NanoL..18.5007B. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01837. 
  19. ↑ Santomauro, Fabio G.; Grilj, Jakob; Mewes, Lars; Nedelcu, Georgian; Yakunin, Sergii; Rossi, Thomas; Capano, Gloria; Al Haddad, André et al. (July 2017). "Localized holes and delocalized electrons in photoexcited inorganic perovskites: Watching each atomic actor by picosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy" (in en). Structural Dynamics 4 (4): 044002. doi:10.1063/1.4971999. ISSN 2329-7778. PMID 28083541. 
  20. ↑ Bacellar, Camila; Kinschel, Dominik; Mancini, Giulia F.; Ingle, Rebecca A.; Rouxel, Jérémy; Cannelli, Oliviero; Cirelli, Claudio; Knopp, Gregor et al. (8 September 2020). "Spin cascade and doming in ferric hemes: Femtosecond X-ray absorption and X-ray emission studies" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (36): 21914–21920. doi:10.1073/pnas.2009490117. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 32848065. Bibcode: 2020PNAS..11721914B. 
  21. ↑ Bräm, Olivier; Cannizzo, Andrea; Chergui, Majed (21 February 2019). "Ultrafast Broadband Fluorescence Up-conversion Study of the Electronic Relaxation of Metalloporphyrins" (in en). The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 123 (7): 1461–1468. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.9b00007. ISSN 1089-5639. PMID 30673249. Bibcode: 2019JPCA..123.1461B. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b00007. 
  22. ↑ Ajdarzadeh, Ahmad; Consani, Cristina; Bräm, Olivier; Tortschanoff, Andreas; Cannizzo, Andrea; Chergui, Majed (August 2013). "Ultraviolet transient absorption, transient grating and photon echo studies of aqueous tryptophan" (in en). Chemical Physics 422: 47–52. doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2013.01.036. Bibcode: 2013CP....422...47A. 
  23. ↑ Auböck, Gerald; Consani, Cristina; van Mourik, Frank; Chergui, Majed (8 June 2012). "Ultrabroadband femtosecond two-dimensional ultraviolet transient absorption". Optics Letters 37 (12): 2337–2339. doi:10.1364/ol.37.002337. ISSN 0146-9592. PMID 22739900. Bibcode: 2012OptL...37.2337A. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.37.002337. 
  24. ↑ Consani, C.; Aubock, G.; van Mourik, F.; Chergui, M. (7 February 2013). "Ultrafast Tryptophan-to-Heme Electron Transfer in Myoglobins Revealed by UV 2D Spectroscopy". Science 339 (6127): 1586–1589. doi:10.1126/science.1230758. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 23393092. Bibcode: 2013Sci...339.1586C. 
  25. ↑ Haddad, A. Al; Chauvet, A.; Ojeda, J.; Arrell, C.; Mourik, F. van; Auböck, G.; Chergui, M. (1 February 2015). "Set-up for broadband Fourier-transform multidimensional electronic spectroscopy" (in EN). Optics Letters 40 (3): 312–315. doi:10.1364/OL.40.000312. ISSN 1539-4794. PMID 25680035. Bibcode: 2015OptL...40..312A. https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-40-3-312. 
  26. ↑ Oppermann, Malte; Bauer, Benjamin; Rossi, Thomas; Zinna, Francesco; Helbing, Jan; Lacour, Jérôme; Chergui, Majed (10 January 2019). "Ultrafast broadband circular dichroism in the deep ultraviolet". Optica 6 (1): 56. doi:10.1364/optica.6.000056. ISSN 2334-2536. Bibcode: 2019Optic...6...56O. 
  27. ↑ Chergui, Majed; Collet, Eric (10 July 2017). "Photoinduced Structural Dynamics of Molecular Systems Mapped by Time-Resolved X-ray Methods". Chemical Reviews 117 (16): 11025–11065. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00831. ISSN 0009-2665. PMID 28692268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00831. 
  28. ↑ Kinschel, Dominik; Bacellar, Camila; Cannelli, Oliviero; Sorokin, Boris; Katayama, Tetsuo; Mancini, Giulia F.; Rouxel, Jérémy R.; Obara, Yuki et al. (18 August 2020). "Femtosecond X-ray emission study of the spin cross-over dynamics in haem proteins". Nature Communications 11 (1): 4145. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17923-w. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 32811825. Bibcode: 2020NatCo..11.4145K. 
  29. ↑ Linda Wang (17 August 2020). "ACS 2021 national award winners" (in en). C&EN Global Enterprise 98 (31): 58–59. doi:10.1021/cen-09831-acsnews. ISSN 2474-7408. 
  30. ↑ "Preise der Royal Society of Chemistry 2019" (in en). Angewandte Chemie 131 (30): 10143–10144. 22 July 2019. doi:10.1002/ange.201906585. ISSN 0044-8249. Bibcode: 2019AngCh.13110143.. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ange.201906585. 
  31. ↑ "Khwarizmi International Award 31st Session - 2018 | Khwarizmi International Award (KIA)". http://62.60.140.120/kia/content/khwarizmi-international-award-31st-session-2018. 
  32. ↑ Grunwaldt, J-D; Hagelstein, M; Rothe, J (May 2016). "The 16 th International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS16)". Journal of Physics: Conference Series 712 (1): 011001. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/712/1/011001. ISSN 1742-6588. Bibcode: 2016JPhCS.712a1001G. 
  33. ↑ "Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics" (in en). http://aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/plyler.cfm. 
  34. ↑ "Prof. Dr. Majed Chergui" (in en). https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview?tx_rsmavhsolr_solrview%5BpPersonId%5D=1004262&cHash=e5f0cc5066964d36d41ea9c9746f6327. 
  35. ↑ "The Dance of Molecules :: NCCR MUST". http://www.nccr-must.ch/public_events/past_38.html?689. 
  36. ↑ EuroScience (25 January 2009). "Rammal Award 2000–2008 laureates" (in en-GB). https://www.euroscience.org/news/rammal-award-2000-2008-laureates/. 
  37. ↑ Chemical Physics. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/chemical-physics. 

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