Research Areas

Research Groups

Chemical Dynamics

Advanced ultrafast X-ray imaging group

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

Time resolved serial crystallography
Ultrafast Electron diffraction (UED)
Temperature jump induced chemical reactions

CFEL-DESY Theory Group

ultrafast dynamics in highly excited electronic states
quantum and mixed quantum-classical dynamics
non-Born-Oppenheimer effects

Controlled Molecule Imaging Group

cold and controlled molecules; controlled chemistry
controlling very large molecules and nanoscopic particles
alignment and orientation

Detector Research and Developments Group

KHz frame-rate large-area electron detectors

Markus Drescher

ultrafast cameras observing molecular dynamics
probing optically driven molecules with EUV pulses

Photobiology Group / PBIO

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

exciton dynamics in photovoltaic materials
imaging electron dynamics in real time on atomic scale

Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics Group

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

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

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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