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Dr. Omer Kneller

Contact

Office PHY 2.1.07
Phone +49 941 943-5741
e-Mail omer.kneller@physik.uni-regensburg.de

Academic career

Since 2025 Postdoctoral Researcher (Rothschild and VATAT fellow) with Rupert Huber, University of Regensburg
2016 - 2025 MSc. and PhD (Azrieli fellow) in attosecond physics with Nirit Dudovich, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.  
2013 - 2013

BSc. in Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.


List of selected publications

  • O. Kneller*, C. Mor*, N. Klimkin*, N. Yaffe, M. Krüger, D. Azoury, Y. Federman, D. Rajak, B.D. Bruner, O. Smirnova, S. Patchkovskii, Y. Mairesse, M. Ivanov and N. Dudovich 
    Attosecond transient interferometry
    Nature Photonics 19, 134–141 (2025)

  • D. Rajak, S. Beauvarlet, O. Kneller, …, V. Blanchet, N. Dudovich, B. Pons and Y. Mairesse
    Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction in Chiral Molecules
    Physical Review X 14 (1), (2024)

  • O. Kneller, D. Azoury, Y. Federman, M. Krüger, A.J. Uzan, G. Orenstein, B.D. Bruner, O. Smirnova, S. Patchkovskii, M. Ivanov and N. Dudovic
    A look under the tunnelling barrier via attosecond-gated interferometry 
    Nature Photonics 16, 304-310 (2022)

  • Azoury*, O. Kneller*, M. Krüger, B. D. Bruner, O. Cohen, Y. Mairesse and N. Dudovich
    Interferometric attosecond lock-in measurement of extreme ultraviolet circular dichroism
    Nature Photonics 13, 198-204 (2019)
    See also Physics Today perspective by J. L. Miller
    Circular polarization made to order in the extreme UV
    Physics Today 72, 4, 17 (2019)

  • D. Azoury, O. Kneller, S. Rozen, B. D. Bruner, A. Clergerie, Y. Mairesse, B. Fabre, B. Pons, N. Dudovich and M. Krüger
    Electronic wavefunctions probed by all-optical attosecond interferometry'
    Nature Photonics 13, 54-59 (2019)



Highlights

June 2024
Coverstory in Nature Photon.

May 2024
Publication in Nature

July 2023
Launch of the ERC project Orbital Cinema