Research Experience:

January 2005- current

Post-doctoral position at Max Born Institute - Berlin

Supervisor: Dr. Arkadi Rosenfeld

November 2000- December 2004

Ph. D. Student at the Max Born Institute - Berlin under supervision of Prof. I.V.Hertel and Dr. C.P.Schulz

Projects:
Photoelectron Spectroscopy of C₆₀
Rydberg Series of C₆₀
Impulsive Stimulated Raman Scattering
Internal Energy Redistribution
Femtosecond Pulse Shaping
PEPICO (not a major topic)
Material Structuring (not a major topic)
Ionization of Li@C₆₀ and La@C₈₂ (not a major topic)

August 1999 - October 2000

Diplomand at the Max Born Institute - Berlin under supervision of Prof. I.V. Hertel and Dr. Georg Korn

Projects: Pulse Shaping of Femtosecond Pulses and Applications

March 1997-May 1999

Undergraduate Research Assistant- University of Texas-Austin under supervision of Dr. Manfred Fink

Projects: Absolute Flux of Molecular Beams and Absolute Measurement of Radiation Pressure Force of Laser Beams

May 1998- August 1998

Summer internship sponsored by NSF - University of Colorado- under supervision of Dr. Steven Cundiff

Projects: Soliton Propagation in an Optical Fiber

Skills:

Languages: English (mother tounge), German, and Spanish

Computer Programming Skills: LabVIEW, C/C++, html

Specific Research Skills: Laser Spectroscopy, Photoion and Photoelectron detection, Vacuum, Molecular Beams, Femtosecond Pulse Shaping

Publications:

1.) M.Boyle, K.Hoffmann, C.P.Schulz, I.V.Hertel, E.E.B. Campbell, and R.D. Levine,
Excitation of Rydberg Series in C₆₀,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, (2001) 273401.

2.) M.Boyle, K.Hoffmann, C.P.Schulz, I.V. Hertel, and E.E.B. Campbell,
First Experimental Observation of Rydberg Series,
Femtochemistry and Femtobiology (2002) 126-132.

3.) R.Stoian, M.Boyle, A.Thoss, A. Rosenfeld, G.Korn,E.E.B. Campbell, and I.V.Hertel,
Laser ablation of dielectrics with temporally shaped femtosecond pulses,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 80 (2002) 353-5.

4.) R.Stoian, M.Boyle, A.Thoss, A.Rosenfeld, G.Korn, and I.V.Hertel,
Dynamic temporal pulse shaping in advanced ultrafast laser material processing,
Appl. Phys. A 77 (2003) 265-269.

5.) M.Boyle, M. Heden, C.P. Schulz, E.E.B. Campbell, and I.V. Hertel, Two color pump-probe study and internal energy dependence of Rydberg State excitation in C₆₀, Phys. Rev. A 70 (2004) 051201.

6.) M.Boyle, T. Laarmann, I. Shchatsinin, C.P. Schulz, and I.V. Hertel,
Fragmentation Dynamics of fullerenes in intense fs-laser fields: Loss of small neutral fragments on a picosecond timescale. J. Chem Phys. 122 (2005) 181103.
more coming soon!