Research Areas
Research Groups

Chemical Dynamics

Advanced ultrafast X-ray imaging group
Tais Gorkhover
  • high temporal and spatial resolutions in X-ray imaging with FELs
  • visualization techniques for non-equilibrium systems at the nanoscale
  • novel XUV-based table-top imaging techniques for material science
Applied Optics Group
Michael A. Rübhausen
  • charge transfer processes in bio-organic and inorganic model compounds
  • time resolved XAS
  • time resolved spectroscopic techniques in solution
Attosecond Science Group
Francesca Calegari
  • Charge migration and charge transfer in bio-relevant molecules
  • Attosecond time-resolved photoelectron and photoion spectroscopy
  • Tailoring light pulses to control molecular dynamics 
Biomedical Research with X-rays
Alke Meents
  • Time resolved serial crystallography
  • Ultrafast Electron diffraction (UED)
  • Temperature jump induced chemical reactions
CFEL-DESY Theory Group
Robin Santra
  • ultrafast dynamics in highly excited electronic states
  • quantum and mixed quantum-classical dynamics
  • non-Born-Oppenheimer effects
Controlled Molecule Imaging Group
Jochen Küpper
  • cold and controlled molecules; controlled chemistry
  • controlling very large molecules and nanoscopic particles
  • alignment and orientation
Detector Research and Developments Group
Heinz Graafsma
  • KHz frame-rate large-area electron detectors
DynamiX Group
Markus Drescher
  • ultrafast cameras observing molecular dynamics
  • probing optically driven molecules with EUV pulses
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
Spectroscopy of molecular processes
Melanie Schnell
  • conformational isomerization in the gas phase
  • intramolecular dynamics
  • racemization reactions of chiral molecules
Theory of ultrafast light-matter interaction
Daria Gorelova
  • exciton dynamics in photovoltaic materials
  • imaging electron dynamics in real time on atomic scale
Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics Group
Nils Huse
  • correlated dynamics in light-triggered transition-metal systems
  • charge-transfer reactions in functionalized nanoparticle hybrid systems
  • dynamics of hydrogen-bonded solvated and crystalline systems
X-ray Atto-Chirality
Markus Ilchen
  • Ultrafast dynamics in chiral matter explored with FELs
  • Nonlinear spectroscopy of asymmetric adn transient light-matter interaction
  • X-ray studies of electron dynamics at the attosecond frontier
X-ray Optics for Extreme Conditions Group
Saša Bajt
  • physics of X-ray multilayer structures
  • growth and structure of nano and sub nano-layered films
  • X-ray optics for high intensity
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