Oliver Gessner

Oliver Gessner was born in Bonndorf/Schwarzwald, Germany, in 1969. He received the Dip.-Phys. degree in fundamental physics in 1996, and the Dr. rer. nat. degree in 2002 in experimental physics, both from the Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany. He was a Canadian Government Laboratory Visiting Fellow during 2002–2005 and an Assistant Research Officer during 2005–2006 (with A. Stolow) at the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences of the National Research Council of Canada. Since 2006, he has been a Divisional Fellow in the Ultrafast X-ray Science Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Gessner is a recipient of the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences Annual Award for Scientific Breakthrough and Technical Innovation (2005).