Our main goal is to understand, control, and image ultrafast electron dynamics that drive the earliest stages of chemical reactivity.

Welcome to the Douguet Research/Attosecond and Strong-field Electron dynamics group at UCF!

We are a theoretical and computational physics research group exploring ultrafast electron dynamics in atoms, molecules, and biomolecular systems on attosecond to femtosecond timescales. By developing first-principles, time-dependent computational methods, we investigate how strong-field interactions shape ultrafast electron dynamics and are developing approaches to explore how electronic coherence and charge migration may govern the earliest stages of photochemical reactivity. Our work aims to bridge fundamental theory with emerging ultrafast spectroscopies, ranging from attosecond and strong-field techniques to structured-light and X-ray-based approaches, providing insight that supports the transition from femtochemistry to attochemistry.

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