Overview:

Contact

Jan Marcus Dahlström
Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer
Mathematical Physics, Department of Physics
Lund University (LTH)
Professorsgatan 1
S-223 63 Lund
Office: B:309
Phone: +46 46 222 90 88
marcus.dahlstrom@fysik.lu.se

Research links

• ORCID-ID.
• GoogleScholar.
• ResearchGate.
• Research Portal @ LU.
• Faculty staff pages.

Brief CV

• 2024 : Wallenberg Academy Fellow Prolongation.
• 2024 : Project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR).
• 2024 : Supervisor of PhD thesis at Lund University: Edvin Olofsson.
• 2023 : Supervisor of PhD thesis at Lund University: Mattias Bertolino
• 2022 : Chairman for Atomic, Molecular and Optical (AMO) Section, in the Swedish Physical Society.
• 2021 : Senior Lecturer (Swe: Universitetslektor) at Mathematical Physics at Lund University.
• 2019 : Wallenberg Academy Fellow (announcement by LU)
• 2018 : Swedish Foundations' Starting Grant funded by Olle Engkvists Stiftelse (announcement by LU).
• 2018 : Project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR).
• 2018 : Associate Professor (Swe: Docent) at Mathematical Physics at Lund University.
• 2017 : Grant that may lead to future scientific breakthroughs from Knut and Alice Wallenberg (KAW) Foundation (w/ Feifel).
• 2017 - 2021 : Senior Associate Lecturer at Mathematical Physics at Lund University.
• 2015 - 2017 : Researcher in Atomic Physics at Stockholm University.
• 2015 : Short-term Visitor at ITAMP, Harvard, US.
• 2014 : Grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR) with funding for 4-years as a Young Researcher.
• 2013 - 2015: Guest Researcher at CFEL for the Max-Planck Institute: Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS), Hamburg, Germany.
• 2013 : Grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR) with funding for a 3-year International Post-doc.
• 2011 - 2013 : Post-Doc. in Theoretical Atomic Physics, Stockholm University (SU), Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2011 : Short Term Scientific Mission at Université Pièrre and Marie Curie (UPMC) financed by COST, Paris, France.

Education

• 2007 - 2011 : Ph.D. degree in Attosecond Physics at Atomic Physics, Lund University (LTH), Lund, Sweden. Supervisor: Prof. Anne L'Huillier.
• 2006 : NASA Space Grant Summer Fellowship stipend at Space Sciences Laboratory (CAL) financed by NASA, Berkeley, USA.
• 2005 - 2006 LU California Stipend: Exchange year in Physics at UC Berkeley (CAL), Berkeley, USA.
• 2002 - 2007 : M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics (F), Lund University (LTH), Lund, Sweden.

Teaching

• Statistical Thermodynamics with Applications (FMFF06)
• Theory of Relativity (FMFF30) 

Research:

Interests

I am a researcher specializing in strong-field laser physics and quantum optics, with a focus on attosecond processes in photoionization. My work explores the interplay between quantum and classical physics, using diagrammatic approaches to study many-body interactions and investigating the limits of quantum mechanics including relativistic effects. Additionally, I examine non-linear X-ray processes in matter and ultrafast entanglement in hybrid systems, contributing to a deeper understanding of light-matter interactions on ultrafast timescales.

For more information on my research, please contact me directly via email.

Outreach

• Mentioned in the "Yearly Tech Talk" by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA) (2024-10-25)
• "New key to the world of quantum mechanics: the intensity of light affects electrons' kinetic energy" (2024-04-22) (in Swedish).
• Ledare i Fysikaktuellt (2023-4, p.3): "Hur finner man den 'nya' fysiken?" (2023-12-13).
• "Korta våglängder kan få elektroner att svänga" (2022-08-18).
• "Skapar klockor som mäter ultrakorta laserblixtar" (2021-03-24).
• "Snurrig upptäckt ger nya insikter om fysikaliskt fenomen" (2019-09-24).
• "Intriguing discovery provides new insights into photoelectric effect (2019-10-01).
• "Forskning på gång om världens mest exakta tidtagarur" (2018-12-20).

Highlights

• "Mollow-like Triplets in Ultrafast Resonant Absorption"
  Physical Review Letters, 2024.
• "Generation of entanglement using a short-wavelength seeded free-electron laser"
  Science Advances, 2024.
• "Observation of Rabi dynamics with a short-wavelength free-electron laser"
  Nature, 2022.
• "Fano's propensity rule in angle-resolved attosecond pump-probe photoionization"
  Physical Review Letters, 2019.
• "Photoionization in time and frequency domain"
  Science, 2017.

Group:

Members

• Rezvan Tahouri: PhD student WAF project (est. 2021-11-01 - today).

• Axel Stenquist: PhD student Swe-Stg/KAW project (2021-09-01 - today).

• Jakob Bruhnke: PhD student WAF/VR project (2024-09-01 - today).

• Dennis Nilsson: Master student (2025 HT).

• Filip Salbrink: Master student (2025 HT)

Alumni

• Edvin Olofsson: PhD student involved in Swe-Stg project (2019-11-01 - 2024-06-12).
  Edvin Olofsson's PhD thesis "Ultrafast population transfer and ionization mechanisms in intense laser fields"
• Evan Langloys: Exchange student from Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (2024-04-23 - 2024-07-23).
• Yijie Liao: Exchange PhD student from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2023-03-01 - 2024-06-29) (PhD at HUST on 2024-11-16).
• Jakob Bruhnke: MSc student at Mathematical Physics Division (Axel Stenquist was co-supervisor) (2023-08-28 - 2024-05-23).
  Jakob Bruhnke's Master's thesis "Two-photon Rabi oscillations in hydrogen: A theoretical study of effective Hamiltonian approaches".
• Asimina Papoulia: Post-Doc involved in WAF project (2021-10-01 - 2023-12-31).
• Stefanos Carlström: Post-Doc involved in VR project (2020-07-01 - 2023-12-31). 
• Mattias Bertolino: PhD student involved in KAW project (2018-09-01 - 2023-05-26). 
  Mattias Bertolino's PhD theis: "Applications of TDCIS for photoelectrons in attosecond and free-electron laser sciences"
• Axel Eriksson: Summer research project (2023).
• Felipe Zapata: Post-Doc involved in Swe-Stg project (2019-11-01 - 2022-12-31) Then Post-doc at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM) in Madrid.
• Elna Svegborn: Summer research project (2022).
• Jimmy Vinbladh: Joint Lic./Researcher at Stockholm and Lund University (2015-01-01 - 2021-12-31).
• David Busto: Joint PhD student at Atomic Physics of Lund University (2016-09-12 - 2020-08-28). 
• Axel Stenquist: MSc student at Mathematical Physics Division (2020-08-31 - 2021-05-10). 
  Axel Stenquist's Master's thesis "Microscopic and Macroscopic Samples of Atoms in Superposition States Studied by Attosecond Pulses".
• Xiaolin Bian: MSc student at Mathematical Physics Division (2019-01-21 - 2019-05-06).  Now working at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing.

Mentors 

• Professor Eva Lindroth, Stockholm University (Post-doc supervisor) Honorary Doctor at Lund University, Faculty of Engineering in 2024.
• Professor Anne L'Huillier, Lund University (PhD supervisor) Nobel Prize in Physics 2023.

Openings

Vacancies are published on the website of the Department of Physics.

Science:

Talks, seminars, and other activities  

• 2025 May 12: Invited talk at the 2025 International Workshop on Ultrafast and X-ray Science at ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
• 2025 May 7: Invited talk at the Joint Seminar of Ultrafast Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China. Download slides!
• 2025 Apr 9: Invited ICMM-CIS Theory Department Seminar, at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain.
• 2025 Feb 3: Invited talk at the 14th Ringberg Workshop: Science with FELs at Ringberg Castle, Germany.
• 2024 May 8: Invited Bothe Colloquium at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) Heidelberg, Germany.
• 2024 Feb 29: Invited talk at AttoChem Tenerife 2024 in La Laguna, Spain. Download slides!
• 2023 Sep 14: Invited tutorial lecture for AttoChem Young Scientist Symposium 2023 in Vienna, Austria. Download slides!
• 2023 Jun 6: Invited talk for Research Training Group DYNCAM in Freiburg, Germany.
• 2023 Mar 29: Invited talk for CFEL SCIENCE SEMINAR in Hamburg, Germany.
• 2022 Jul 13: Contributed talk for ATTO 2022 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
• 2022 Jun 15: Opening of AMO session during Fysikdagarna in Lund (LU), Sweden.
• 2021 Jul 7: Webinar (link to YouTube) at AttoChem Webinar Series 2 (COST Network)
• 2021 May 18: Mötesplats Rydberg Lecture at Lund University, Sweden.
• 2020 : Emerging Leaders 2020 in Electronic Structure IOP Science Journal (direct link to published article)
• 2019 Apr 11: Hot Topic talk for 'European Conference on Atoms, Molecules and Photons' (ECAMP13) in Florence, Italy.
• 2018 Dec 5: Invited talk for 'Quantum Dynamics in Tailored Intense Fields' (QUTIF 2018) at Max-Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin, Germany.
• 2018 Aug 31: Invited lecture at the 3:rd ELI Summer School (ELISS 2018) at ELI-ALPS in Szeged, Hungary.
• 2018 Jun 14-18: Invited talk at CompAS in Lund, Sweden.
• 2017 Nov 21-Dec 1: Invited talk at the International Workshop on Atomic Physics in Dresden, Germany.
• 2017 Nov 14: Mötesplats Rydberg Lecture at Lund University, Sweden.
• 2017 Jul 26-Aug 1: Invited Progress Report at ICPEAC XXX in Cairns, Australia.
• 2017 Mar 14-16: Invited talk at 4th XLIC General Meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
• 2016 Aug 31-Sep 2: Attend the Faraday discussions 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
• 2016 Aug 29-30: Presentation at the 2nd XLIC WG1 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
• 2016 Online lecture about 'Attosecond time delay in photoionization' for PhD students within MEDEA.
• 2016 Planned the SU session and I gave a popular science lecture for students from Leiden University (Netherlands).
• 2016 Apr 26-30 Norden NANOCONTROL NETWORK: GWII in Reykjavik, Iceland.
• 2016: Apr 4-8 COST WG1 Expert Meeting in Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium.
• 2015: Control of Ultrafast Quantum Phenomena at NORDITA in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2015: International Max Planck Research School: Dynamical Processes in Atoms, Molecules and Solids - SEMINAR MPI-PKS Dreseden, Germany.
• 2015: Norden NANOCONTROL NETWORK: GWII at Aarhus University, Denmark.
• 2014: HI-JENA SEMINAR at the Helmholtz Institute in Jena, Germany.
• 2014: [Online Lecture] Frontiers of Intense Laser Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
• 2014: Quantum Theory: from Problems to Advances (QTPA) at the Linnaeus University, Vaxjo, Sweden.
• 2013: CFEL SCIENCE SEMINAR, Hamburg, Germany.
• 2013: NORDFORSK Workshop in Tampere (Tammerfors), Finland.
• 2012: International Workshop on Atomic Physics, MPI: Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
• 2012: Gordon Research Conference: Multiphoton processes #16 , South Hadley, MA, USA.
• 2012: Workshop on Intense Fields and Attosecond Science, Aarhus, Denmark.
• 2012: EGAS (European Group of Atomic Systems) #44, Göteborg, Sweden.
• 2011: Symposium of Attosecond Science and Ultrafast Quantum Control, Imperial College, London, UK.
• 2010: Few Body Dynamics in Atoms, Molecules and Planetary Systems, MPI: Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.

Organization of national/international events

• 2025 Jun 6-11: Local organizer of ATTO X in Lund, Sweden.
• 2024 Jun: AMO Workshop at Mathematical Physics (organization and chairman) in Lund (LU), Sweden.
• 2023 Jun 14-15: AMO Sessions (organization and chairman) in Stockholm (SU), Sweden.
• 2023 May: AMO Workshop at Mathematical Physics (organization and chairman) in Lund (LU), Sweden.
• 2022 Jun: AMO section (welcome talk, program design, (nomination and selection process)) during Fysikdagarna in Lund (LU), Sweden.
• 2021 Aug: AMO section (nomination and selection process) during Nordic Physics Days (nomination and selection process) in Uppsala University (UU) (virtual event), Sweden.
• 2021 Aug: Virtual ICPEAC 2021 (nomination and selection process).
• 2019 Oct: AMO section (nomination and selection process) during Fysikdagarna in Linköping (LiTH), Sweden.

International networks

• ATTOCHEM - COST European Research Network headed by Fernando Martin (secondary proposer)
• ICPEAC - International Conference on Photonic Electronic and Atomic Collisions (general committee member)

Tutorials and other files

• Tutorial on attodelays at SJTU (2025) with hand-written solutions
• Tutorial on dressed atom, ion and continuum at YSS (Vienna 2023)