Professor Bernhard Hidding

Visiting Professor

Physics

Personal statement

Bernhard Hidding joined the University of Strathclyde in 2013 and holds the SUPA Chair of Experimental Physics at SCAPA, the Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators.
He heads an international research group in the area of laser-plasma-beam dynamics. Bernhard is currently an ERC Consolidator Grant holder with the NeXource: Next-generation Plasma-based Electron Beam Sources for High-brightness Photon Science project http://nexource.phys.strath.ac.uk/ 2020-2025, leads the PWFA-FEL project http://pwfa-fel.phys.strath.ac.uk/ 2019-2023, and is Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training (SCDT) on Plasma-based Particle and Light Sources (P-PALS), http://ppals.phys.strath.ac.uk/
He co-chairs the UK's Plasma Wakefield Accelerator Steering Committee (PWASC) and is on the UK's Cockcroft Institute Management Committee.
Bernhard obtained his PhD in 2008 from Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf at the University of Laser and Plasma Physics, led projects for European Space Agency and industry, was a DAAD-funded visiting researcher at UCLA's Department for Physics and Astronomy, was a DFG Emmy-Noether award recipient, a Professor at the Institute for Experimental Physics at University of Hamburg/DESY, and led the E-210: Trojan Horse collaboration at SLAC FACET.

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Publications

Comparing a radiation damage model for avalanche photodiodes through in-situ observation of CubeSat based devices: Lenart Arpad, Islam Tanvirul, Sivasankaran Srihari, Neilson Peter, Hidding Bernhard, Oi Daniel, Ling Alexander; Nature Communications Vol 8 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-025-02042-z
Ice-Cold Plasma Electron Beams Prepare to Power Future Hard X-ray Laser Beams : U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Highlight: Habib Ahmad Fahim, Hidding Bernhard; (2024)
Numerical studies of collinear laser-assisted injection from a foil for plasma wakefield accelerators: Wilson TC, Farmer J, Pukhov A, Sheng Z-M, Hidding B; Physical Review Accelerators and Beams Vol 27 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.27.071301
Plasma photocathodes: Habib Ahmad Fahim, Heinemann Thomas, Manahan Grace G, Ullmann Daniel, Scherkl Paul, Knetsch Alexander, Sutherland Andrew, Beaton Andrew, Campbell David, Rutherford Lorne, Boulton Lewis, Nutter Alastair, Karger Oliver S, Litos Michael D, O’Shea Brendon D, Andonian Gerard, Bruhwiler David L, Pretzler Georg, Wilson Thomas, Sheng Zhengming, Stumpf Michael, Reichwein Lars, Pukhov Alexander, Cary John R, Hogan Mark J, Yakimenko Vitaly, Rosenzweig James B, Hidding Bernhard; Annalen der Physik Vol 535 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.202200655
Underdense plasma lens with a transverse density gradient: Doss C E, Ariniello R, Cary J R, Corde S, Ekerfelt H, Gerstmayr E, Gessner S J, Gilljohann M, Hansel C, Hidding B, Hogan M J, Knetsch A, Lee V, Marsh K, O'Shea B, San Miguel Claveria P, Storey D, Sutherland A, Litos M D; Physical Review Accelerators and Beams Vol 26 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.26.031302
Self-focusing, compression and collapse of ultrashort weakly-relativistic Laguerre Gaussian lasers in near-critical plasma: Wilson T C, Sheng Z-M, McKenna P, Hidding B; Journal of Physics Communications Vol 7 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/acbf05

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Professional Activities

PWFA-X-FEL: Invited speaker; 26/10/2022
11th International Particle Accelerator Conference: Participant; 10/5/2020
E-310 Trojan Horse-II at FACET-II and the STFC PWFA-FEL programme: Speaker; 19/9/2019
European Advanced Accelerator Concepts: Participant; 15/9/2019
Nature Physics (Journal): Peer reviewer; 12/8/2019
Overview on E31x experiments: Speaker; 4/7/2019

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Projects

High-gradient acceleration of electrons in plasma and dielectric structures: Habib, Ahmad Fahim (Co-investigator) Rosenzweig, James (Principal Investigator) Bruhwiler, David (Co-investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator); DOE Mission Science award for your ERCAP request at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center; 17-Jan-2024 - 20-Jan-2026
Production of high quality electron bunches in AWAKE Run 2 2023-: McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
STFC Lancaster Cockcroft 2021 DTP - Lily Berman: McNeil, Brian (Principal Investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Lenart, Arpad: Oi, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) Lenart, Arpad (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
Cockcroft Phase 4: McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Cross, Adrian (Co-investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) McNeil, Brian (Co-investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
STFC Lancaster Cockcroft 2020 DTP - Adam Hewitt 2020: Hidding, Bernhard (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2024