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Christian joined UCF in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics and CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics. Before joining UCF, he was a Postdoc at Stanford University and a visiting researc her at MIT.
At UCF, Christian leads the Ultrafast Quantum Control Group, which investigates light–matter interactions on femtosecond and attosecond timescales. His research focuses on lightwave electronics, strong-field and quantum-material dynamics, and the development of field-resolved spectroscopic techniques for controlling and probing electronic motion in solids.

Education/Appointment
Visiting Researcher at MIT, Cambridge
Postdoctoral Humboldt Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford
Ph.D. in Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Email: Christian.heide@ucf.edu
Office: PSB 111
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