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Saša Bajt
Advanced Multilayer X-ray Optics
Saša Bajt leads the Advanced Multilayer X-ray Optics Group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY. Her work focuses on the development of novel X-ray optics based on thick multilayers, such as high numerical aperture multilayer Laue lenses, which can focus intense X-rays from synchrotron radiation sources and X-ray free electron lasers to a few nanometres, a size comparable to a single protein molecule.
The intensities that one can produce with such small beams will bring X-ray imaging methods like microscopy and holography to new levels. She is also developing new X-ray wavefront characterization techniques to improve multilayer deposition process for high-precision X-ray lenses and studying properties of these nanolayered structures.
Academic career
| since 2024 | Leading Scientist at DESY |
| 2008 - 2024 | Physicist and Group Leader, DESY |
| 1996 - 2008 | Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA |
| 1994 - 1996 | Research Scientist, University of Chicago, USA |
| 1991 - 1994 | Research Associate, University of Chicago, USA |
| 1990 - 1991 | Postdoc, Max-Plack-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg |
| 1987 - 1990 | PhD, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg |
| 1987 | Diploma in Physics, University of Ljubljana |
Memberships
| 2023 | SPIE Senior Member (International Society for Optics and Photonics) |
| since 2022 | Chair of the X-ray Microscopy International Advisory Committee |
| since 2019 | General Chair of SPIE Europe: Optics+Optoelectronics |
| 2018 | Fellow of the Optical Society OSA |
Awards
| 2022 | DESY Innovation Award |
| 2021 | Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia |
| 2018 | Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society 2018 Award |
| 2018 | Microscopy Today Innovation Award |
| 2013 | NASA Group Achievement Award |
| 2003 | Excellence in Technology Transfer Award |
| 1999 | Hawley Medal (Mineralogical Association of Canada) |
