Prof. Dr. Sascha Schäfer holds a chair in Experimental Physics at the University of Regensburg/Germany. His research group “Ultrafast Nanoscale Dynamics” focusses on the development of novel ultrafast transmission electron microscopy (UTEM) instrumentation and time-resolved electron imaging approaches with applications in the probing of local structural and spin dynamics and free-electron/light interactions.

Prof. Schäfer received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the Univ. of Darmstadt and worked as a PostDoc from 2009 – 2012 together with A. H. Zewail at Caltech. In 2012, he joined the group of C. Ropers at the Univ. of Göttingen as the sub-group leader of the UTEM team. During this time, the Göttingen UTEM team pioneered the development of highly coherent laser-driven electron sources from Schottky emitters and demonstrated quantum coherent electron-light interaction in optical near-fields. At the University of Oldenburg, he established his own research group in 2017 funded by a Lichtenberg professorship of the Volkswagen Foundation. In 2023, his research group relocated to the University of Regensburg joining the Regensburg Center for Ultrafast Nanoscopy (RUN).