Prof. Tenio Popmintchev

Physics Department, University of California San Diego, USA

Tenio Popmintchev received his Ph.D. in Physics from JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder in 2010, in the field of experimental Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. He did his undergraduate studies in Sofia University, Bulgaria, in theoretical Physics – Laser Physics and Quantum Electronics. Tenio was a Postdoctoral Fellow, a Senior Research Associate, and a Research Professor at JILA – the same institute where he did his graduate work. Since 2016, he is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department and the Center for Advanced Nanoscience at University of California San Diego. Tenio’s research interests have been focused on extreme non-linear optics and attosecond X-ray science, and novel approaches for fully spatially and temporally coherent upconversion of ultrafast laser light into the X-ray regime. Tenio is a Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, and has a joint appointment at the Photonics Institute of TU Wien, Austria, where he leads an ERC Starting Grant focused on the development of multi-keV coherent X-ray light sources with arbitrary spatial, temporal shape, and angular momentum state.