Felipe Salgado

Felipe Salgado

PostDoc at FSU Jena and Helmholtz-Institute Jena

About me

Hi! 👋 My name is Felipe Salgado, a physicist with a background in electrical engineering.

I have completed my Masters in Photonics and a PhD in physics. I am passionate about developing new hardware and software for complex systems. Hence, I have conducted numerous research experiments that required extensive teamwork and thinking outside the box.

I have experience in:

  • Designing and performing experiments at high-power laser facilities (PW-class) around the globe such as JETi200 (Jena, Germany), CALA (Munich, Germany), FACET-II at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (USA), and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory RAL (UK).
  • Conducting data analysis and image processing using Python and Mathematica, and performing numerical simulations using C/C++.
  • Developing software (C/C++/C#/LabView) for controlling devices using different communication protocols, such as motor and trigger controllers, and cameras.
  • Designing optical components, complex systems, and detectors using Autodesk Inventor, for example.
  • Creating electronic PCBs to integrate systems. And much more!

If you would like to learn more about my experiences and projects, feel free to send me a message or visit my GitHub repositories.

I have also published scientific papers and hold patents from the work and research I have conducted.

Publications

A complete list of my publications can be found on Google Scholar or ResearchGate.

My PhD thesis is also accessible to the public through this link.

Research

My field of research is strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED), and laser-matter interaction with main focus on laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA).

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Strong-Field QED
Vacuum Pair-Creation, Compton Scattering		Particle Detector Development
Single-Particle Detectors for SF-QED Experiments
Light-Matter Interaction with focus on
Laser-Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA)

Research Collaborations

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Helmholtz Institute Jena
(Germany)
Electron Acceleration (LWFA) and SF-QED Experiments
(2019-Now)
Centre for Advanced Laser Applications and LMU
(Germany)
Nonlinear Breit-Wheeler Pair Creation
(2019-Now)
FACET-II: Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
(USA)
Experiment-320: Probing Strong-field QED
(2019-Now)
Central Laser Facility: Astra-Gemini Laser System
(UK)
Pair-Production and Strong-Field QED
(2018-2019)