Research History
From August 2004 to August 2006 I was a postdoctoral scholar working in the group of Prof. Ahmed H. Zewail at the California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA.
Caltech is an outstanding place with outstanding opportunities and it was a pleasure to be in beautiful Southern California for two wonderful years. To work in Prof. Zewails lab was an honor and an excellent experience from a scientific as well from a personal point of view.
The areas of research included:
- Ultrafast Electron Diffraction
- Ultrafast Electron Crystallography
I investigated dynamical structures of fatty acid bilayers with ultrafast electron crystallography. We were able to determine the structure of the 2D assembly. Furthermore, the coherent and anisotropic dynamical expansion along the aliphatic chains and the restructuring toward equilibration at longer times were observed. This is a leap forward for the determination of macromolecular dynamical structures.
In the past my research focused on:
- Ultrafast dynamics of organic molecules in solution studied by ultrafast transient lensing spectroscopy
- Solvation dynamics in the water pools of reverse micelles studied by 3-pulse photon-echo spectroscopy
- Solvation dynamics of water at the interface of lipid-bilayers studied by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy
(fluorescence up-conversion and time-correlated single photon counting)
- Ultrafast primary events in the first excited state of Green Fluorescent Protein studied by fluorescence up-conversion
- Vibrational cooling of CO2 in organic and supercritical solvents studied by UV-pump-IR-probe-spectroscopy
Please see my list of publications for further information.