Dr Margarita Khokhlova is a Research Fellow in the Department of Physics, King’s College London, with a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

Her research focuses on the theoretical study of the generation of attosecond light pulses and their optimisation, as well as on ultrafast electron dynamics initiated by attosecond pulses in atoms, molecules and solids, including chiral molecules and topological solids.

Margarita received her BSc/MSc degree at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, in 2013, followed by her PhD degree in 2016. After a short-term postdoc position at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, she moved Imperial College London, UK, in 2017 as a Royal Society Newton International Fellow. 

Research interests 

• Attosecond dynamics of the atomic and molecular systems in strong laser fields
• Ultrafast molecular chirality and topological properties of solids
• High-order frequency mixing and harmonic generation, attosecond pulse production
• Ab initio many-body calculations, electron correlation
• Free-electron laser physics