Scientific Members of IPP
Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Bradshaw
Alex Bradshaw was born in 1944 in Bushey, UK. After studying chemistry at the University of London he took his PhD in 1969 in physical chemistry. He qualified for a university readership ("Habilitation") in 1974 at the Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Technical University, Munich. From 1976 to 1998 he worked at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, from 1980 onwards as Scientific Member and Director. Parallel to his position at the Fritz Haber Institute, he was also Scientific Director of the Berlin synchrotron radiation source, BESSY, in the 1980's. From 1999 to 2008 Bradshaw was Scientific Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics; he remains a Scientific Member of the Institute and is also a guest at the Fritz Haber Institute.
At the Fritz Haber Institute he specialised in spectroscopic and structural characterisation of adsorbed atoms and molecules, in particular using vibrational spectroscopy and photoemission. In cooperation with Phil Woodruff (Physics Department, University of Warwick) he introduced and extensively applied the method of quantitative photoelectron diffraction using synchrotron radiation, which has since led to the determination of more than 50 adsorbate structures. He has also worked on instrumentation development, in particular for synchrotron radiation experiments. More recently, he has concentrated on photoionisation phenomena in free molecules as well as on energy questions, with emphasis on the use of nuclear fusion as an energy source.
Bradshaw is Honorary Professor in experimental physics at the Technical Universities of Berlin (currently with leave of absence) and Munich, a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (“Leopoldina”), the German National Academy of Engineering (acatech), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea. He was from 1996 to 2002 a member of the Executive Committee of the German Physical Society and in 1998-2000 its President. He has been a member of numerous national and international evaluation panels and also chaired EU committees on large-scale facilities and nuclear fusion. Bradshaw was co-founder and first Editor-in-Chief of the "open-access" New Journal of Physics, an all-electronic journal publishing original research in all areas of physics. He has received many prizes and awards for his research, his services to the physics community and his work at the science policy level.
Addresses:
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
Boltzmannstrasse 2
85748 Garching
Tel: 0049 (0)89 32 99-1375, -2123
Fax: 0049 (0)89 32 99-1001
E-mail: alex.bradshaw@ipp.mpg.de
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
c/o Abteilung Theorie
Faradayweg 4-6
14195 Berlin
Tel: 0049 (0)30 84 13-4860
Selected publications
(some of them available in full text in the IPP institutional repository):
M. Förstel, M. Mucke, T. Arion, A. M. Bradshaw and U. Hergenhahn (2011): Autoionization mediated by electron transfer, in Phys. Rev Lett. 106, 033402.
M. Förstel, M. Mucke, T. Arion, T. Lischke, S. Barth, V. Ulrich, G. Öhrwall, O. Björneholm, U. Hergenhahn and A. M. Bradshaw (2010): The observation of electronic energy bands in argon clusters, in Phys. Rev. B 82, 125450.
M. Mucke, M. Braune, S. Barth, M. Förstel, T. Lischke, V. Ulrich, T. Arion, U. Becker, A. Bradshaw and U. Hergenhahn (2010): A hitherto unrecognised source of low energy electrons in water, in Nature Physics 6, 143 (2010).
V. Ulrich, S. Barth, T. Lischke, A. M. Bradshaw and U. Hergenhahn (2008): Separating the vibrationally resolved Auger decay channels for a CO core hole state, in Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 143003.
A. M. Bradshaw (2008): Der Weg zu einer nachhaltigen Energiequelle: Die Erforschung der Kernfusion, in “Die Zukunft der Energie – Die Antwort der Wissenschaft” (eds. P. Gruss and F. Schüth), Verlag C. H. Beck, p. 295.
A. Rüdel, U. Hergenhahn, K. Maier, E.E. Rennie, O. Kugeler, J. Viefhaus, P. Lin, R.R. Lucchese and A.M.Bradshaw (2005): Exchange interaction effects in the NO N 1s photoionization cross section, in: New J. Phys, 7, 189.
Alex Bradshaw was born in 1944 in Bushey, UK. After studying chemistry at the University of London he took his PhD in 1969 in physical chemistry. He qualified for a university readership ("Habilitation") in 1974 at the Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Technical University, Munich. From 1976 to 1998 he worked at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, from 1980 onwards as Scientific Member and Director. Parallel to his position at the Fritz Haber Institute, he was also Scientific Director of the Berlin synchrotron radiation source, BESSY, in the 1980's. From 1999 to 2008 Bradshaw was Scientific Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics; he remains a Scientific Member of the Institute and is also a guest at the Fritz Haber Institute.
At the Fritz Haber Institute he specialised in spectroscopic and structural characterisation of adsorbed atoms and molecules, in particular using vibrational spectroscopy and photoemission. In cooperation with Phil Woodruff (Physics Department, University of Warwick) he introduced and extensively applied the method of quantitative photoelectron diffraction using synchrotron radiation, which has since led to the determination of more than 50 adsorbate structures. He has also worked on instrumentation development, in particular for synchrotron radiation experiments. More recently, he has concentrated on photoionisation phenomena in free molecules as well as on energy questions, with emphasis on the use of nuclear fusion as an energy source.
Bradshaw is Honorary Professor in experimental physics at the Technical Universities of Berlin (currently with leave of absence) and Munich, a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (“Leopoldina”), the German National Academy of Engineering (acatech), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea. He was from 1996 to 2002 a member of the Executive Committee of the German Physical Society and in 1998-2000 its President. He has been a member of numerous national and international evaluation panels and also chaired EU committees on large-scale facilities and nuclear fusion. Bradshaw was co-founder and first Editor-in-Chief of the "open-access" New Journal of Physics, an all-electronic journal publishing original research in all areas of physics. He has received many prizes and awards for his research, his services to the physics community and his work at the science policy level.
Addresses:
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
Boltzmannstrasse 2
85748 Garching
Tel: 0049 (0)89 32 99-1375, -2123
Fax: 0049 (0)89 32 99-1001
E-mail: alex.bradshaw@ipp.mpg.de
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
c/o Abteilung Theorie
Faradayweg 4-6
14195 Berlin
Tel: 0049 (0)30 84 13-4860
Selected publications
(some of them available in full text in the IPP institutional repository):
M. Förstel, M. Mucke, T. Arion, A. M. Bradshaw and U. Hergenhahn (2011): Autoionization mediated by electron transfer, in Phys. Rev Lett. 106, 033402.
M. Förstel, M. Mucke, T. Arion, T. Lischke, S. Barth, V. Ulrich, G. Öhrwall, O. Björneholm, U. Hergenhahn and A. M. Bradshaw (2010): The observation of electronic energy bands in argon clusters, in Phys. Rev. B 82, 125450.
M. Mucke, M. Braune, S. Barth, M. Förstel, T. Lischke, V. Ulrich, T. Arion, U. Becker, A. Bradshaw and U. Hergenhahn (2010): A hitherto unrecognised source of low energy electrons in water, in Nature Physics 6, 143 (2010).
V. Ulrich, S. Barth, T. Lischke, A. M. Bradshaw and U. Hergenhahn (2008): Separating the vibrationally resolved Auger decay channels for a CO core hole state, in Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 143003.
A. M. Bradshaw (2008): Der Weg zu einer nachhaltigen Energiequelle: Die Erforschung der Kernfusion, in “Die Zukunft der Energie – Die Antwort der Wissenschaft” (eds. P. Gruss and F. Schüth), Verlag C. H. Beck, p. 295.
A. Rüdel, U. Hergenhahn, K. Maier, E.E. Rennie, O. Kugeler, J. Viefhaus, P. Lin, R.R. Lucchese and A.M.Bradshaw (2005): Exchange interaction effects in the NO N 1s photoionization cross section, in: New J. Phys, 7, 189.