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.
• Linked In.
• Research Portal @ LU.
• Faculty staff pages.

Brief CV

• 2026 : Main supervisor of PhD thesis at Lund University: Axel Stenquist.
• 2026 : WACQT funding of PhD student in Quantum Sensing and Metrology
• 2026 : Main supervisor of PhD thesis at Lund University: Rezvan Tahouri.
• 2024 : Wallenberg Academy Fellow Prolongation.
• 2024 : Project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR).
• 2024 : Main supervisor of PhD thesis at Lund University: Edvin Olofsson.
• 2023 : Main 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.

Science:

Interests and focus areas

I work on theory for strong-field ultrafast laser physics, quantum optics, attosecond processes in photoionization, the interplay between quantum and classical physics, diagrammatic approaches for many-body interactions, ultrafast entanglement, and investigations of quantum relativistic effects.

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

Outreach

• "Quantum light boosts attosecond science" News & Views NATURE (2026-05-20) 
• "Hur kan tider för jonisation av atomer studeras?" i KOSMOS 2025: Attofysik
• "How does quantum entanglement move between different particles?" IOPP's Progress In series (2025-12-17)
• "Kvantsammanflätning upplöst i tiden: Lundastudie i världens blickfång" (2025-12-19)
• "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).
• "Atomer absorberar energi på ett oväntat sätt" (2024-09-02)
• 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) (In English).
• "Forskning på gång om världens mest exakta tidtagarur" (2018-12-20).

Highlights

• "Photoionization Time Delays Probe Electron Correlations"
  Physical Review Letters, 2025
• "Entanglement transfer in a composite electron–ion–photon system"
  Reports on Progress in Physics, 2025
• "Dynamic Interference of Chirped Photoelectrons"
  Physical Review Letters, 2025
• "Spin-polarized photoelectrons in the vicinity of spectral features"
  Physical Review Letters, 2025.
• "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.
• "Photoionization in time and frequency domain"
  Science, 2017.

Tutorials

• Tutorial on attodelays at SJTU (Shanghai 2025) with hand-written solutions
• Tutorial on dressed atom, ion and continuum at YSS (Vienna 2023)
• Tutorial on PANDA (free article from 2019)  
• Tutorial on RABBITT (free article from 2012)

Methodology

• RTDCIS: Relativistic Time-Dependent Configuration-Interaction Singles (2022)

Group:

Members

• Filip Salbrink: PhD student (2026-04-01 - today) 

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

• Emilia My Kjærsdam Telléus: PI Gisselbrecht (2024-05-06 - today)

• Rezvan Tahouri: PhD student WAF project (2021-10-01 - 2026-06-05)

• Axel Stenquist: PhD student Swe-Stg/KAW project (2021-09-01 - 2026-10-02)

Alumni

• Xiaolin Bian: MSc student at Mathematical Physics Division (2019-01-21 - 2019-05-06) Working at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing
  "Study of Dicke's Model for Superradiance at short wavelengths from core-excited atoms"
• 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) 
  "Microscopic and Macroscopic Samples of Atoms in Superposition States Studied by Attosecond Pulses"
• Jimmy Vinbladh: Joint Lic./Researcher at Stockholm and Lund University (2015-01-01 - 2021-12-31)
• 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)
• Mattias Bertolino: PhD student involved in KAW project (2018-09-01 - 2023-05-26) 
  "Applications of TDCIS for photoelectrons in attosecond and free-electron laser sciences"
• Axel Eriksson: Summer research project (2023)
• 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) 
• Jakob Bruhnke: MSc student at Mathematical Physics Division (Axel Stenquist was co-supervisor) (2023-08-28 - 2024-05-23)
  "Two-photon Rabi oscillations in hydrogen: A theoretical study of effective Hamiltonian approaches"
• Edvin Olofsson: PhD student involved in Swe-Stg project (2019-11-01 - 2024-06-12)
  "Ultrafast population transfer and ionization mechanisms in intense laser fields"
• 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)
• Evan Langloÿs: Exchange student from Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (2024-04-23 - 2024-07-23)
• Dennis Nilsson: Msc student at Mathematical Physics Division (2025-08-27 - 2026-01-19)
  "Quantum coherence and entanglement in ultrafast laser-assisted photoionization"
• Filip Salbrink: Msc student at Mathematical Physics Division (2025-08-27 - 2026-01-21)
  "Relativistic Rabi dynamics and scalings of highly charged hydrogen-like atoms"

Mentors 

• Professor Anne L'Huillier, Lund University (PhD supervisor) Nobel Prize in Physics 2023.
• Professor Eva Lindroth, Stockholm University (Post-doc supervisor) Honorary Doctor at Lund University 2024.
• Professor Marcus Aldén, Lund University (Wallenberg Academy Fellow (WAF) mentor program).

Openings

• Ultrafast Quantum Sensing of Correlations in Hybrid Ion-Electron-Photon Systems (PhD position supported by WACQT). 
• All vacancies are published on the website of the Department of Physics.

Scientific Activities:

Talks, seminars, and other activities  

• 2026 Sep 29: Invited speaker, Strong-Field Quantum Optics (SFQO), Porquerolles, France.
• 2026 Jun 24: Invited speaker, EGAS 57, Toruń, Poland.
• 2026 Jun 11: Invited speaker, Gordon Research Conference: Multiphoton processes, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, USA.
• 2026 Feb 27: [Online lecture] Invited speaker, Atto Fridays Seminar Series, broadcast on Zoom and Youtube from University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK).
• 2026 Feb 27: Invited speaker, Quantum in Lund (QiL) Seminar, Lund, Sweden. 
• 2026 Jan 15: Invited speaker, Workshop: Innovations in Ultrafast Laser Science, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 2025 Sep 9: Keynote speaker, Theory around XFELs at Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
• 2025 Aug 7: Invited speaker, 23rd International Symposium on Correlation, Polarization and Ionization in Atomic and Molecular Collisions (COPIAMC 2025) in Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. 
• 2025 Juli 7: Invited speaker, ATTO X: 10th International Conference on Attosecond Science and Technology in Lund, Sweden.
• 2025 May 12: Invited speaker, 2025 International Workshop on Ultrafast and X-ray Science at ShanghaiTech University in Shanghai, China.
  >>> Download slides! 
• 2025 May 8: Invited speaker, Strong-Coupling tutorial, ShanghaiTech University Joint Seminar on Intense Field Science, Shanghai, China.
• 2025 May 7: Invited speaker, RABBIT tutorial, Joint Seminar of Ultrafast Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China.
  >>> Download slides!
• 2025 Apr 9: Invited speaker, ICMM-CSIC Theory Department Seminar, at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain.
• 2025 Feb 3: Keynote speaker at the 14th Ringberg Workshop: Science with FELs at Ringberg Castle, Germany.
• 2024 May 8: Invited speaker, Bothe Colloquium at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) Heidelberg, Germany.
• 2024 Feb 29: Invited speaker, AttoChem Tenerife 2024 in La Laguna, Spain.
  >>> Download slides!
• 2023 Sep 14: Invited speaker, Strong-Coupling Tutorial lecture, AttoChem Young Scientist Symposium 2023 in Vienna, Austria.
  >>> Download slides!
• 2023 Jun 6: Invited speaker, Research Training Group DYNCAM in Freiburg, Germany.
• 2023 Jun 6: Invited speaker, RABBITT Tutorial at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany.
• 2023 Mar 29: Invited speaker, CFEL SCIENCE SEMINAR in Hamburg, Germany.
• 2022 Jul 13: Contributed talk, ATTO 2022 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
• 2022 Jun 15: Opening of AMO session during Fysikdagarna in Lund (LU), Sweden.
• 2021 Jul 7: [Online lecture] Invited speaker, 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 contributed talk, 'European Conference on Atoms, Molecules and Photons' (ECAMP13) in Florence, Italy.
• 2018 Dec 5: Invited speaker, 'Quantum Dynamics in Tailored Intense Fields' (QUTIF 2018) at Max-Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin, Germany.
• 2018 Aug 31: Invited speaker, 3:rd ELI Summer School (ELISS 2018) at ELI-ALPS in Szeged, Hungary.
• 2018 Jun 14-18: Invited speaker, CompAS in Lund, Sweden.
• 2017 Nov 21-Dec 1: Invited speaker, 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, ICPEAC XXX in Cairns, Australia.
• 2017 Mar 14-16: Invited speaker, 4th XLIC General Meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
• 2016 Aug 31-Sep 2: Participator, Faraday discussions 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
• 2016 Aug 29-30: Presentation, 2nd XLIC WG1 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
• 2016 Jun 15: [Online lecture] Invited speaker, 'Attosecond time delay in photoionization' for PhD students within MEDEA.
• 2016 Apr 26-30 Contributed talk, Norden NANOCONTROL NETWORK: GWII in Reykjavik, Iceland.
• 2016: Apr 4-8 Invited speaker, COST WG1 Expert Meeting in Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium.
• 2015 May 18-Jun 12: Contributed talk, Control of Ultrafast Quantum Phenomena at NORDITA in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2015 Apr 1: Invited speaker, International Max Planck Research School: Dynamical Processes in Atoms, Molecules and Solids - SEMINAR MPI-PKS Dreseden, Germany.
• 2015 Jan 14-15: Contibuted talk, Norden NANOCONTROL NETWORK: GWII at Aarhus University, Denmark.
• 2014 Dec 3: Invited speaker, HI-JENA SEMINAR at the Helmholtz Institute in Jena, Germany.
• 2014 Jul 21-Aug 19: [Online Lecture] Invited guest, Frontiers of Intense Laser Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
• 2014 Jun 9-12: Invited speaker, Quantum Theory: from Problems to Advances (QTPA) at the Linnaeus University, Vaxjo, Sweden.
• 2013 Sep 4: Invited speaker, FEL SCIENCE SEMINAR, Hamburg, Germany.
• 2013 Jun 12-14: Contributed talk, NORDFORSK Workshop in Tampere (Tammerfors), Finland.
• 2012 Nov 26-Dec 1: Invited speaker, International Workshop on Atomic Physics, MPI: Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
• 2012 Sep Jul 6-7: Invited speaker, Workshop on Intense Fields and Attosecond Science, Aarhus, Denmark.
• 2012 Jul 9-13: Contributed talk, EGAS (European Group of Atomic Systems) #44, Göteborg, Sweden.
• 2012 Jun 4-8: Invited speaker, Gordon Research Conference: Multiphoton processes #16 , South Hadley, MA, USA.
• 2011 Sep 7-9: Contributed talk, Symposium of Attosecond Science and Ultrafast Quantum Control, Imperial College, London, UK.
• 2010 Jun 28-Jul 1: Invited speaker, Few Body Dynamics in Atoms, Molecules and Planetary Systems, MPI: Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
• 2010 Jun 6-11: Hot Topic speaker, Gordon Research Conference: Multiphoton processes, Tilton School, Tilton, MA, USA.

Organization of national/international events

• 2027 Aug 15-19: Chair of the local organizing committee for EGAS 58 (European Group on Atomic Systems) in Lund, Sweden.
• 2026 Oct 2: AMO Workshop: Quantum Optics meets X-ray Spectroscopy (organization and chairman) in Lund, Sweden.
• 2026 Sep 29: Session chair at SFQO (Strong-Field Quantum Optics) in Porquerolles, France.
• 2026 Jun 24: Session chair at EGAS 57 (European Group on Atomic Systems) in Toruń Poland. 
• 2026 Jun 4: AMO Workshop: Attosecond Physics meets Relativity Theory (organization and chairman) in Lund, Sweden.
• 2025  Aug 1: Session chair at ICPEAC 34 (International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Colissions).
• 2025 Jul 6-11: Part of local organizing committee for ATTO X in Lund, Sweden.
• 2024 Jun 10: 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 25: AMO Workshop at Mathematical Physics (organization and chairman) in Lund (LU), Sweden.
• 2022 Jun 15: 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.
• 2016 Planned the SU session and I gave a popular science lecture for students from Leiden University (Netherlands).

International and national networks

• EGAS (ad hoc board member 2026-2027 in the European group on atomic systems: a part of the European Physical Society, EPS)
• ICPEAC - International Conference on Photonic Electronic and Atomic Collisions (general committee member 2019-2025)
• Swedish Physical Society (chair of AMO section 2023-2025, AMO board member 2019-2025, member of working group for recruitment of members to the Swedish Physical Society 2025-today)
• ATTOCHEM - COST European Research Network headed by Fernando Martin (secondary proposer 2019-2024)
• Lund Laser Center (LLC)
• Advances Light Sources (LTH)
• Light and Matter (LU)

Social media

• Follow "attoboy" on Linked In for updates!
• Interview by the Wallenberg Foundation - Quantum entanglement of light and matter (published in 2026, see also Swedish translation)
• Meet the Physicist - Professor Jan Marcus Dahlström Quantum Battles (2026-06-15)

Teaching duties at Lund University:

Course responsible and lecturer:

• Statistical Thermodynamics with Applications (FMFF06 at LTH) [Course responsible since 2018. Flipped-class room since 2021]
• Theory of Relativity (FMFF30 at LTH) [Course responsible since 2018. Flipped-class room since 2022]

Lecturer:

• Advanced Quantum Mechanics (FYST89/FMFN10 and LU and LTH) [Relativisitic quantum mechanics lectures since 2026]

PhD program:

• Responsible for PhD education at the Mathematical Physics Division (at LU and LTH) since 2025 [Swe: Instutitionsrepresentant (IR)].