Guest Professor: Paul Bolton

New DAAD - Guest Professor Paul Bolton at the Chair for Medical Physics

We proudly welcome our new guest scientist Prof. Paul Bolton in Munich. Herecently arrived from Kyoto,  Japan where he spent the past seven years as the Deputy-Director-General of the Kansai Photon Science Institute, a diverse laser-based organization that also specializes in high power laser development for laser-plasma applications. “My background in experimental physics”, he reflects, “includes development of broadband, high power laser systems and applications to laser-atom, laser-plasma and plasma photonics studies (mostly at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL). At the Stanford University accelerator (formerly SLAC) I applied broadband laser techniques to advanced high-brightness, high energy accelerator development intended mostly for the world's first x-ray FEL (RF-photoinjectors, diagnostics and plasma focussing). In industry and at LLNL I also worked as a high power microwave engineer developing sources, components and plasma devices (gaseous switches, mirrors and lenses) mostly for ionization and propagation studies.”

As a Guest Professor associated with Professor Katia Parodi's team he will pass on his knowledge at LMU offering a new graduate course about the 'integrated laser-driven ion accelerator system (ILDIAS) and applications'. He much welcomes the new multidisciplinary and multi-faceted opportunities he anticipates here to investigate medical applications of energetic photon and particle sources that can potentially be laser-driven.

                        Prof. Paul Bolton examining the LION vacuum chamber system