Research Areas Accelerator Science Bio & Medical Physics Chemical Dynamics Condensed Matter Physics & Nanoscience Molecular Imaging Spectroscopy Strong Field Physics Theory Ultrafast Optics Research Groups Chemical Dynamics Advanced ultrafast X-ray imaging group Tais Gorkhover combination of high temporal and spatial resolutions in X-ray imaging with FELs development 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 Atomically Resolved Dynamics Group R. J. Dwayne Miller direct observation of transition state processes new concept in categorizing chemistry in terms of reaction modes 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/femtosecond 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