Svetoslav Bajlekov
Since August 2011 I am no longer at Oxford. I am now working as a management consultant at Bain & Company.
These are my 3 minutes of fame on Bulgarian national TV - reporting on Ben Sherlock (also at Oxford Physics) and me cycling from London to Istanbul In August/September 2011.
Until recently I was a PhD student working in Simon Hooker's laser-wakefield acceleration group at the Atomic & Laser Physics sub-department of the University of Oxford. The primary areas of research I was involved with were:
- Radiation generation using laser-accelerated electrons:
- work towards experimental demonstration of a compact soft x-ray FEL driven by laser-accelerated electrons
- experimental generation of undulator radiation
- free-electron laser theory
- simulation of FELs driven by ultra-short laser-accelerated electron bunches and seeded by pulses with a rapidly-varying temporal structure
- Diagnostics of laser-wakefield accelerators (required for the above):
- measurement of the bunch temporal profile
- measurement of bunch transverse emittance
- The Internet:
- as a platform for "massive collaboration" across institutions and disciplines
- as a platform for information sharing and its capabilities for enabling access to education in developing countries (Wikipedia is a good start)
- and how to effectively manage large-scale information resources and datasets
- Science education and public policy:
- engaging ways to engage with schoolchildren
- the role of science in government
- can science education topple oppressive regimes?
For the purpose of simulating FELs driven by laser-accelerated electrons I wrote the code Aurora -- see its page for more information.
Other things I generally care and think about:
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