Dr. Marko Horbatsch

Marko Horbatsch is currently working as a Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He studies interactions of atoms and simple molecules in collisions with ions or exposure to strong laser fields by theoretical and computational methods. His particular interests are in the areas of multiple ionization and the capture of electrons in collisions of highly charged ions. Also, he is interested in quantum optics, especially in measurements of the radius of the proton and the line shape problem for high-precision spectroscopy, as well as the problem of electron–positron pair creation in ultra-strong fields. His emphasis is on developing new computational methods and testing time-dependent density functional theory. Recently, he moved into the area of computational quantum chemistry to study the electronic structure of polar molecules embedded within cryogenic rare gas matrices.