Saša Bajt

Saša Bajt is a Slovenian scientist and group leader at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, where she develops multi-layer mirrors for X-ray applications such as Laue lenses. . She is a regular collaborator of the European XFEL.

Education and career
Saša Bajt received her B. Sc. in Physics from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, before pursuing a PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and Heidelberg University in Germany. She then joined the University of Chicago as a research scientist, working on X-ray fluorescence microscopy and micro X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS). She joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where she worked on the development of multilayer mirrors for Extreme ultraviolet lithography and X-ray Free-electron laser experiments. In 2008, she joined the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany as the group leader for X-ray optics in extreme conditions.

She is married to the British physicist Henry N. Chapman.

Awards and Honors

 * 2023 Honored as Senior Member of SPIE
 * 2019 Fellow of the Optical Society of America
 * 2018 Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society Award
 * 1999 Hawley medal