Curriculum Vitae

Viktor Palm (jun.)

  • 1979: Diploma in Physics from University of Tartu
  • 1988: Ph.D. in Physics (Cand.Phys.Math.Sci) from Institute of Physics, Estonian Academy of Sciences (Tartu); topic of the thesis: "Investigation of the zero-phonon lines of impurities in organic glasses using the technique of spectral hole burning"
  • Since 1989 - (founding) member of Estonian Physical Society
  • Professional employment at Institute of Physics, Tartu:
    1979-1982 - engineer
    1982-1985 - postgraduate student
    since 1985 - research staff
    2005-2015 - senior scientist, Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy, Institute of Physics, University of Tartu
    2016-... - specialist
  • Guest Scientist:
      1993, 1994, 1999, 2000 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory (Prof. U.P.Wild), ETH-Zürich
      1996, 1997, 1998 - Institute of Physical Chemistry (Prof. V.E.Bondybey), Technische Universität München (participation in NATO international High Technology research project "Ultrasensitive matrix isolation spectroscopy of molecules at extremely low concentrations")
      2005 - Lund Laser Centre (LLC), Lund University, Division of Atomic Physics at Lund Institute of Technology (participation in European Commission programme LASERLAB-EUROPE).
  • Workshops/Schools:
      2013 - 44th IFF Spring School 'Quantum Information Processing' (Jülich, Germany)
      2018 - PicoQuant workshop on single photon-based quantum technologies
  • 1996 - Estonian State Science Award (Natural Sciences), for research in single-molecule spectroscopy
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    Scientific Publications :
    (01.2022)
    Total number - 116
    Full-length articles - 55
    Citations (WOS) - 595
    h-index - 12

    List of Selected Publications

     

    Main fields of experimental research:

    1). Investigation of zero-phonon lines of impurities in organic glasses at low and ultralow temperatures, and applications of the technique of spectral hole burning [1-9,14,15,21,24,26,27].

    2). Single-molecule spectroscopy in organic solids at low and ultralow temperatures; single-molecule imaging [10-13,16-20,22-25,28,29,31,34].

    3). Photonics, quantum optics and interference phenomena [22,30,32,33,35-39].