Opportunities in Imaging Working Group member, LINXS Fellow

Dr. Edwin Fohtung is an Associate Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. He received his Ph.D. ( Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude) from the University of Freiburg, Germany in 2010. Before he joined Rensselaer Polytechnic as Faculty in 2019 he was the LANSCE (Los Alamos Neutron Science Center) Professor of physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico State University. Before this, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of physics at the University of California San Diego in the Shpyrko Group and worked at the Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Prof. Fohtung earned his B.Sc. (2005) and M.Sc. (2007) in Technical and Applied Physics from the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University Russia. Prof. Fohtung is particularly interested in nanoscale structure, fluctuations, and dynamics arising due to coupled and competing spin, orbital, charge, and lattice degree of freedom. To interrogate such order parameters in a variety of condensed matter systems, the Fohtung Research group develops novel synchrotron-based coherent x-ray and neutron scattering techniques. Professor Fohtung is the recipient of numerous awards including the LANSCE Professorship and Rosen Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is also the recipient of multiple grants from the US Department of Defense, Airforce of Office of Scientific Research (DoD-AFOSR), the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other LANL directed research and development program awards. Professor Fohtung is currently a visiting professor at Lund University and a LINXS (Lund Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-ray Science) fellow in Lund Sweden.