Saša Bajt

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]

^ "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.
^ pubs.geoscienceworld.org https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/canmin/article-abstract/38/1/255/126215/THE-HAWLEY-MEDAL-FOR-1999-TO-ALAN-J-ANDERSON?redirectedFrom=fulltext. Retrieved 12 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)