Stockholm University
AlbaNova University Center
Department of Physics
Atomic Physics
S-10691 Stockholm
Sweden
(Visiting address: Roslagstullbacken 21)
Phone: ++46-(0)8-55378643
Fax: ++46-(0)8-55378601
My name is Henning Schmidt, and I am 39 years old. I have worked in the field of atomic andmolecular collision physics since 1989. First in Århus, Denmark, where I took my Ph.D. in1994 and later on here at Stockholm University, where I am now a Senior Lecturer in AtomicPhysics. The primary focus of my research activities for the coming years is related to a worldunique experimental facility, DESIREE, which we are constructing at Stockholm Universityin a collaborative effort of the Department of Physics and the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory.DESIREE is an acronym for the Double ElectroStatic Ion Ring ExpEriment where collisionsbetween positive and negative atomic and molecular ions will be studied at very low and well-controlled relative velocities in an environment with low temperature and residual gas density mimicking for example conditions in the interstellar medium. In recent years a large numberof molecular species including amino acids [Kuan et al. Astrophys. J., 593, 848 (2003)] and other molecules of biological importance have been detected in the interstellar medium. This has strong implications for the chemistry on the early Earth (and possibly elsewhere in theuniverse) before life was present – the so-called prebiotic phase. By means of the DESIREEfacility we will study some of the processes possibly responsible for the formation and destruction of these building blocks of life in the interstellar medium.
Persomal Homepage: http://www.physto.se/~schmidt/
Faculty
- David Bastviken, Dr.
- Axel Brandenburg, Prof.
- Henrik Cederquist, Prof.
- Wolf Geppert, Dr. (Director of Studies)
- Nils Holm, Prof.
- Mats Larsson, Prof.
- René Liseau, Prof.
- Garrelt Mellema, Dr.
- Göran Olofsson, Prof.
- Hans Olofsson, Prof. (Head of School)
- Anthony Poole, Dr.
- Henning Schmidt, Prof.
- Britt-Marie Sjöberg, Prof.