Mark D. Thomson

Mark D. Thomson (M'09) received the M.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 2004. His doctoral research work concerned femtosecond spectroscopy of metallorganic charge-transfer compounds. He is currently a permanent staff member and team leader in the Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Terahertz Physics group at Goethe-University, concentrating on ultrafast optical, magnetooptical, and THz spectroscopy of molecular and photomagnetic materials. He participates in the development of novel THz instrumentation, such as THz white-light generation in laser-induced air plasmas.