2012

First new biological structure solved by a free-electron laser The high profile scientific journal "Science" has chosen the first new biological structure solved by an X-ray free-electron laser as

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ERC Synergy Grant for team headed by CFEL Condensed Matter Dynamics Division leader Andrea Cavalleri Prof. Dr. Andrea Cavalleri from the University of Hamburg and three scientists from Oxford, Geneva and Paris have been awarded one of the first eleven Synergy Grants conferred by the European ...

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Center for Free-Electron Laser Science hosts former SLAC director Persis Drell
By Manuel Gnida The Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) has a prominent visitor. Persis Drell, the former director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (USA), has joined DESY scientist ...

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First new biological structure solved by a free-electron laser Using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have exposed a possible Achilles' heel of the sleeping sickness parasite that threatens more than 60 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. The ...

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Max Planck Society establishes new institute on Campus Bahrenfeld
By Manuel Gnida Hamburg’s Science Campus Bahrenfeld will get a new research institute. The German Max Planck Society announced the establishment of a “Max Planck Institute for Structure and ...

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With their ultra short X-ray flashes, free-electron lasers offer the opportunity to film chemical reactions or atoms in motion. However, for this super slow motion the arrival time and the temporal ... CFEL Publications

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Using DESY’s X-ray laser FLASH, a team of scientists from Hamburg has traced the ultrafast explosion of iodine molecules. The group headed by Markus Drescher from the Center for Free-Electron Laser ... CFEL Publications

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World’s most powerful X-ray laser kicks record number of electrons out of an atom Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser in California, an international research team discovered a surprising behaviour of atoms: with a single X-ray flash, the group led by Daniel Rolles from ...

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CFEL graduate students obtain scholarship award for outstanding research
On 31 October 2012 the first PhD Scholarships from the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School were awarded in a festive ceremony. Among the seven outstanding finalists, who can look forward to three years of ...

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CFEL scientist is honored for outstanding nanomaterials research By Manuel Gnida The European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC) honored Kenneth Beyerlein with the 2012 Young Scientist Award in Grenoble, France, this Wednesday. Beyerlein, a postdoctoral ...

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Researchers move into newest architectural landmark on Campus Bahrenfeld The newest architectural landmark on DESY’s Hamburg campus has opened its doors to scientists. After more than three years of construction, the new building of the Center for Free-Electron Laser ...

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Guoqing Chang joins CFEL’s Ultrafast Optics and X-rays Division as leader for the “Ultrafast Fiber Optics” group. On August 1st, 2012, Dr. Guoqing “Noah” Chang - joined CFEL’s Ultrafast Optics and X-rays Division of DESY as a Research Group Leader. He will set up and lead the “Ultrafast Fiber Optics” ...

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For the first time, air-polluting soot particles have been imaged in flight down to nanometre resolution Pioneering a new technique, the international team including researchers from DESY, snapped the most detailed images yet of airborne aerosols. “For the first time we can actually see the structure ...

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Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) – Structure, Dynamics and Control of Matter at the Atomic Scale becomes officially a part of Germany's Federal Excellence Initiative ... On Friday, 15th June 2012, the physics and chemistry departments received confirmation that their proposal submitted under the federal cluster of excellence initiative was successful. This ...