Nicola MayerResearch Fellow
Physics Department
King's College London

About me

I'm currently a UKRI HE Guarantee Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Attosecond Quantum Physics Laboratory group at King's College London, working on the project TopROCS (Topologically Protected Chiral Sensing) with Dr. Emilio Pisanty.
Before moving to London, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Theory Department of MBI Berlin with Prof. Olga Smirnova and a graduate researcher with Prof. Misha Ivanov at HU Berlin and MBI, in Germany. During my PhD and postdoc I worked on ultrafast spectroscopy of quantum dynamics in atoms and molecules triggered by tailored polychromatic fields.
I completed my MSc studies in Optical Sciences at HU Berlin, and my BSc in Physics at the University of Trieste, Italy.

Research interests

• Time-resolved spectroscopy
• Chirality
• Strong-field and attosecond physics
• Structured light
• Non-Hermitian physics
• Plasmonics
• Analytical and numerical methods to describe quantum phenomena on the ultrafast timescale