Leonid Sukhikh

Leonid Sukhikh joined Maschine, Diagnose und Instrumentierung (MDI) group at DESY (Hamburg, Germany) in January 2011 as a scientist (Experienced Researcher) within DITANET to work on a project of short bunch (300 fs) length diagnostics basing on coherent Smith-Purcell radiation from a tilted target.

Leonid finished his graduate education in Tomsk Polytechnic University (Tomsk, Russia) in 2007 as engineer-physicist with specialization ‘Physics of atomic nuclear and elementary particles’. The diploma thesis ‘Focusing of the diffraction radiation generated by parabolic target’ was based on the results of a joint experiment at KEK-ATF (Tsukuba, Japan) devoted to the investigation of optical transition and diffraction radiation from the concave target. Leonid defended his PhD thesis in 2009 ‘Focusing of the transition and diffraction radiation by the concave targets’ (in Russian) under the direction of Prof. Alexander Potylitsyn at the Nuclear Physics Institute of Tomsk Polytechnic University. The thesis included not only incoherent radiation focusing but also the focusing of coherent radiation. After the thesis Leonid worked in Tomsk Polytechnic University as an assistant.

Scientific work of Leonid is devoted to investigation of different kinds of radiation and use of the radiation characteristics for practical purposes such as beam diagnostics for X-FELs and future colliders or new mechanisms of radiation generation for medicine and biology.