Saša Bajt Explained

Saša Bajt is a Slovenian scientist and group leader at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron,^[1] where she develops multi-layer mirrors for X-ray applications such as Laue lenses..^[2] She is a regular collaborator of the European XFEL.

Education and career

Saša Bajt received her B. Sc. in Physics from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, before pursuing a PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and Heidelberg University in Germany. She then joined the University of Chicago as a research scientist, working on X-ray fluorescence microscopy and micro X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS).^[3] She joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where she worked on the development of multilayer mirrors for Extreme ultraviolet lithography and X-ray Free-electron laser experiments. In 2008, she joined the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany as the group leader for X-ray optics in extreme conditions.

She is married to the British physicist Henry N. Chapman.^[4]

Awards and Honors

• 2023 Honored as Senior Member of SPIE^[5]
• 2019 Fellow of the Optical Society of America^[6]
• 2018 Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society Award^[7]
• 1999 Hawley medal^[8]

External links

• Saša Bajt homepage – DESY

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Optics Enabling X-Ray Science. Optics & Photonics News. 16 April 2023.
2. 10.1038/lsa.2017.162. X-ray focusing with efficient high-NA multilayer Laue lenses. 2018. Bajt. Saša. Prasciolu. Mauro. Fleckenstein. Holger. Domaracký. Martin. Chapman. Henry N.. Morgan. Andrew J.. Yefanov. Oleksandr. Messerschmidt. Marc. Du. Yang. Murray. Kevin T.. Mariani. Valerio. Kuhn. Manuela. Aplin. Steven. Pande. Kanupriya. Villanueva-Perez. Pablo. Stachnik. Karolina. Chen. Joe PJ. Andrejczuk. Andrzej. Meents. Alke. Burkhardt. Anja. Pennicard. David. Huang. Xiaojing. Yan. Hanfei. Nazaretski. Evgeny. Chu. Yong S.. Hamm. Christian E.. Light: Science & Applications. 7. 3. 17162. 30839543. 6060042.
3. Web site: Loop | Sasa Bajt. loop.frontiersin.org. 16 April 2023.
4. Web site: Henry Chapman: Bright lights, brilliant experiments . Wiley Analytical Science.
5. Web site: DESY News: Saša Bajt honoured as Senior Member of SPIE . 2024-01-12 . www.desy.de . en.
6. Web site: 2019 Fellows Optica . 2024-01-12 . www.optica.org.
7. Web site: DESY News: Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society Award. www.desy.de. 16 April 2023.
8. 2000-02-01 . The Hawley Medal for 1999 to Alan J. Anderson, Robert A. Mayanovich and Sasa Bajt . The Canadian Mineralogist . en . 38 . 1 . 255–257 . 10.2113/gscanmin.38.1.255 . 0008-4476 . 2024-01-12 .