Research Areas
Research Groups

Bio & Medical Physics

Applied Optics Group
Michael A. Rübhausen
  • behavior of proteins in jets and micro and nanofluidic systems
  • investigation of biomolecules in solution
Biomedical Research with X-rays
Alke Meents
  • High-Throughput Pharmaceutical fragment and compound screening
  • Drug discovery and development
  • Biological macromolecules und non-ambient conditions
Coherent Imaging Group
Henry Chapman
  • atomic-resolution X-ray structure determination without crystals
  • novel macromolecular sample preparation and phasing strategies
  • serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX)
Computational Nanoscale Imaging
Kartik Ayyer
  • structure determination of single biomolecules and viruses
  • understanding equilibrium conformational dynamics using diffuse scattering
Controlled Molecule Imaging Group
Jochen Küpper
  • Biological molecules in the gas-phase
  • Manipulating proteins, viruses, and cells
  • Imaging structural dynamics
Detector Research and Developments Group
Heinz Graafsma
  • low noise/high speed X-ray detectors
  • mega-Hz and mega-pixel imaging detectors
Novel Accelerators Group
Florian Grüner
  • laser-driven medical imaging
  • biomedical X-ray fluorescence imaging
Novel X-ray Sources
Theresa Staufer
  • laboratory-scaled X-ray devices for biomedical imaging
Photobiology Group / PBIO
T. J. Lane
  • understanding how biomolecules capture and use light
  • generating atomic/fs resolution images to understand cellular function
  • method development for time-resolved imaging of light-driven biology
Time-resolved Structural Biology Group
Arwen Pearson
  • new methods for time-resolved structural biology
  • protein dynamics
  • biochemistry
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