Dr. Holger Stiel
holger.stiel(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1351
B2: Imaging and Coherent X-rays
Haus B, 2.10

Position
- Project Coordinator 4.2 "Application Laboratories and Technology Transfer",
- Project Member 3.3 "Transient Structures and Imaging with X-rays",
- Head of BLiX-Laboratory
Research
My research and development interests cover:
- Structure function relationships of parts of photosynthetic apparatus
- X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy of organic molecules
- Design and development of laser based short wavelength and X-ray sources
- Soft X-ray imaging using laser based sources
- Laboratory X-ray microscopy
Curriculum vitae
1993 - present: Senior Scientist
Max-Born-Institute
1991 - 1993: Scientist
Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
1979 - 1991: Scientist
Zentralinstitut für Optik und Spektroskopie (ZOS), Academy of Sciences, GDR
1986: Ph.D. Thesis: "Development of a spectrometer for nonlinear absorption measurements and its application"
Dr. rer. nat. Humboldt University Berlin
1979: Diploma Thesis: "Polaritons in CdS"
Moscow Lomonosov State University (MSU), Moscow, Russia
MBI Publikationen
- Pyrolytic graphite crystals as components for ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy using laser based sources Opt. Prec. Engin. 15 (2007) 1908-1914
- On the Way Towards a High Repetition Rate X-Ray Laser Proceedings of the 10th International Conference 2006 115 Springer Proceedings in Physics (2007) 161-171
- X-ray analysis with a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite-based von Hamos spectrometer Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 62 (2007) 577-585
- Near edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (NEXAFS) of pigment-protein complexes: Peridinin-chlorophyll a-protein (PCP) of Amphidinium carterae J. Biochem. Bioph. Meth. 70 (2007) 369-376
- A New Generation of X-Ray Optics Based on Pyrolytic Graphite Proceedings of FEL 2006 (2006) 798-801
- High spectral resolution x-ray optics with highly oriented pyrolytic graphite Optics Express 14 (2006) 4570-4576
- Elements of capillary optics applied in the spectral range between 10 and 15 nm Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications VI 5919 (2005) 104-111
- Towards elucidating the energy of the first excited singlet state of xanthophyll cycle pigments by X-ray absorption spectroscopy Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 1708 (2005) 102-107
- Applications of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) for x-ray diagnostics and spectroscopy SPIE Proceedings Series 5918 (2005) 11-21
- Comparison of focusing optics for femtosecond X-ray diffraction Applied Physics B 80 (2005) 715-719