Curriculum Vitae

Harald. F. Kauffmann

Email: kauffm@pap.univie.ac.at

Tel: +43-1-4277-52429; +43-1-58801-36276

Fax: +43-1-4277-9524

Project A: THz-time-domain spectroscopy of molecular systems

Project B: Femto-chemical physics dynamics of wavepackets

Date of Birth: 30.3.1944

Place of Birth: Wien

Nationality Austria

Education

1962-1968

Study of Chemistry at the University of Vienna

1968-1971

PhD in Physical Chemistry, University of Vienna

Career History

1971-1976 Fellow, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Univ. of Vienna

1976-1978 Scientist (PostDoc), Max Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie,

Mülheim/R, Germany

1979-1980 Habilitation in physical chemistry, Universitätsdozent

1981-1990 Senior scientist, Institut für Physikalische Chemie

1991 tit. ao. Professor

1997-present A. Univ. Prof., Head of the Department Kurzzeitspektroskopie,

Institut für Physikalische Chemie

Career-related Activities

1985/1986 Research sojourn with C.W. Frank, Department of Chemical

Engineering, Stanford University, USA

1991 Visiting professor with D. Haarer, Institut für Experimentalphysik,

Bayreuth, Germany

1992 Research sojourn with M.D. Fayer, Stanford University, USA

Memberships

Chemisch Physikalische Gesellschaft, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Österreichische

Physikalische Gesellschaft, American Chemical Society, Advisory Board (Editorial) of Chemical

Physics Letters

Publications

130 peer reviewed publications

Research Interests

nonlinear fs-spectroscopies on many-body systems, optical dynamics and coherence , quantum

beats

Selected publications (recent 5 years) – Harald F. Kaufmann

J. Sperling, F. Milota, and H. F. Kauffmann (2005)

Excitonic Relaxation in a Conjugated Polymer: Initial Coherence beyond Energy-Dispersive

Population Transfer, Optics and Spectroscopy 98, 795

F. Milota, J. Sperling, V. Szöcs, A. Tortschanoff, and H. F. Kauffmann (2004)

Correlation of femtosecond wave packets and fluorescence interference in a conjugated

polymer: Towards the measurement of site homogeneous dephasing, J. Chem. Phys. 120,

9870

F. Milota, A. Tortschanoff, J. Sperling, L. Kuna, V. Szöcs, and H. F. Kauffmann (2004),

Femtosecond coherence in poly(p-phenylene-vinylene) – polarization beatings and phaserelaxation

probed by wavepacket fluorescence interferometry, Appl. Phys. A 78, 497

J. Sperling, H. F. Kauffmann, and F. Milota (2004)

Effects of excitation tuning on ultrafast exciton dynamics in poly(p-phenylene-vinyleen)

(PPV), Synth. Metals. 143, 315

F. Milota, J. Sperling, A. Tortschanoff, V. Szöcs, L. Kuna, and H. F. Kauffmann (2004)

Probing phase relaxation by measuring fluorescence interference: polarization beating and

electron-phonon coupling in conjugated polymers, J. Lumin. 180, 205

J. Sperling, F. Milota, A. Tortschanoff, Ch. Warmuth, B. Mollay, H. Bässler, and H. F.

Kauffmann (2002)

Femtosecond excitation tuning and site energy memory of population transfer in poly(pphenylenevinylene):

Gated luminescence experiments and simulations, J. Chem. Phys.117,

10877

V. Szöcs, T. Palszegi, A. Tortschanoff, and H. F. Kauffmann (2002),

Excitonic Segments, Coherences and Site-Disorders in Polymers: Signatures of Electronic

Coupling in a Two-Site Model System by Femtosecond 2D-Photon Echo Correlation

Spectroscopy - A Theoretical Study, J. Chem. Phys. 116, 8218

K. Brunner, A. Tortschanoff, Ch. Warmuth, and H. F. Kauffmann (2000),

Site Torsional Motion and Dispersive Excitation Hopping Transfer in p-Conjugated Polymers,

J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 3781

Invited Lectures (selected)

The Puzzle of Ultrafast Correlations in Optically Excited Conjugated Polymers: New Results

on Dephasing from 3-Pulse Photon-Echo Experiments, Int. Conference in Memory of Roman

Personov, Bayreuth, Germany,15.07.2004

Studies on Optical Coherences & Phase Relaxation in a Disordered, Conjugated Polymer,

Stanford University; Host: M. D. Fayer, Stanford, USA, 18.03.2004

Experimental Coherence and Ultrafast Correlations in a Disordered, Conjugated Polymer,

University of California at Irvine, Host: S. Mukamel, Irvine, USA, 08.03.2004

Quantum-Stochastic Relaxation of Optical Excitations in a Conjugated Polymer:

Experimental Coherence and Homogeneous Dephasing, Symposium on Molecular Reaction

Dynamics in Condensed Matter, Laguna Beach, USA, 05.03.2004

Dynamics of electron-phonon coupling in conjugated polymers, studied by femtosecondcoherence

spectroscopy, Unconventional Photoactive Systems UPS 03, Leuven, NL,

14.09.2003