Lingjia Shen

Bio

Dr. Shen is a scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) -- the world's most powerful X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) facility. He is responsible for the flagship instrument qRIXS, which utilizes high repetition rate XFEL pulses up to 1,000,000 Hz to perform high-energy-resolution, time-momentum-resolved Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) experiments. Dr. Shen is an expert in extreme sample environments and soft X-ray optics. He specializes in a wide range of spectroscopies besides RIXS, including X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS), Inelastic Neutron Scattering (INS), and Muon spin relaxation/rotation (μSR). His research interests lies in spontaneous phase separation in solids which can arise in the presence of quantum fluctuations, competing many-body interactions, or disorder.

Current Role at Stanford

Staff member at the Materials Science Department, Science, Research & Development, Linac Coherent Light Source
Scientist at the qRIXS instrument, Experimental Operations, Linac Coherent Light Source

Education & Certifications

• PhD, University of Birmingham (2016)
• MSc, Nanjing University (2012)
• BSc, Nanjing University (2009)