Saša Bajt
Saša Bajt is a Slovenian scientist and a leading scientist at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron,[1] where she develops multi-layer mirrors for X-ray applications such as multilayer 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. Since 2024 she is a leading scientist at DESY. She is married to the British physicist Henry N. Chapman.[4]
Awards and Honors
- 2023 Honored as Senior Member of SPIE[5]
- 2022 DESY Innovation Award
- 2021 Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia
- 2019 Fellow of the Optical Society of America[6]
- 2018 Microscopy Today Innovation Award
- 2018 Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society Award[7]
- 1999 Hawley medal[8]
References
- ↑ "The Optics Enabling X-Ray Science". Optics & Photonics News. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ↑ 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. (2018). "X-ray focusing with efficient high-NA multilayer Laue lenses". Light: Science & Applications. 7 (3): 17162. doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.162. PMC 6060042. PMID 30839543.
- ↑ "Loop | Sasa Bajt". loop.frontiersin.org. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ↑ "Henry Chapman: Bright lights, brilliant experiments". Wiley Analytical Science.
- ↑ "DESY News: Saša Bajt honoured as Senior Member of SPIE". www.desy.de. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ↑ "2019 Fellows | Optica". www.optica.org. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ↑ "DESY News: Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society Award". www.desy.de. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ↑ "The Hawley Medal for 1999 to Alan J. Anderson, Robert A. Mayanovich and Sasa Bajt". The Canadian Mineralogist. 38 (1): 255–257. 1 February 2000. doi:10.2113/gscanmin.38.1.255. ISSN 0008-4476. Retrieved 12 January 2024.