MBI Staff Member – Personal info
Dr. Andrea Luebcke
andrea.luebcke(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1247
A2: Ultrafast XUV-Physics
Building A, 3.18

Position
Member of Project 3.1 "Dynamics of Condensed Phase Molecular Systems"
Research
My main scientific interest is in the ultrafast molecular dynamics in solution - I investigate how a molecule evolves after absorption of a photon. Thus, the basic idea is to watch a molecule during photophysical or photochemical reaction. In particular, I am interested in the photophysics of DNA. DNA safely stores our genetic code. "Safely" is the keyword in the previous sentence - because DNA is surprisingly photostable - which is obviously a prerequisit for the development of life on earth. The mechanism behind this photostability is still not understood. There are different routes to approach this problem: from studying the photoresponse of the individual building blocks in vacuum to the investigation of living cells. Here, we use the bottom-up principle, i. e. we start from the small individual building blocks and slowly increase the complexity of the system. In addition, we study these system in aqueous environment. Our method of choice is time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy in solution. This technique in principle allows us to follow the molecular dynamics in energy and time, and to identify all transient states involved.
Curriculum vitae
01/2017 - present: Scientist at Max-Born-Institute
- Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of liquid samples
- Excited state dynamics of biomolecules in solution
05/2015 - 12/2016: Scientist at Max-Born-Institute
- Development of a superresolution camera for the soft x-ray regime in collaboration with a medium-sized enterprise
- Laser-plasma physics, laser particle acceleration
12/2014 - 05/2015 guest scientist at Max-Born-Instiute
- Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of liquid samples
- Excited state dynamics of biomolecules in solution
10/2014 - 01/2015 Teacher
03/2014-10/2014 Scientist at Max-Born-Institute
- Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of liquid samples
- Excited state dynamics of biomolecules in solution
03/2013 - 02/2014 Scientist at EPF Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray scattering and X-ray diffraction
- Femtoslicing
05/2008 - 02/2013 Scientist at Max-Born-Institut
- Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of liquid samples
- Excited state dynamics of biomolecules in solution
10/2007 - 01/2008 PostDoc at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin
10/2002 - 10/2007 PhD student at Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena
- Time-resolved x-ray diffraction
- Laser-plasma interaction
- X-ray emission spectroscopy
- Dissertation: Time-resolved X-ray diffraction on superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 epitaxially grown on SrTiO3
10/1997 - 09/2002 Studies of physics (Diplom) at Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena
- Diploma work: "Exploitation of the Borrmann effect for the development of an ultrafast x-ray switch"
MBI Publications
- Controlling energy distribution of fast ions and X-ray emission via target reliefs in ultrafast and relativistic laser plasma interaction Physics of Plasmas 26 (2019) 113110/1-13
- Monitoring of evolving laser induced periodic surface structures Applied Sciences 9 (2019) 3636/1-12
- Parametric study of cycle modulation in laser driven ion beams and acceleration field retrieval at femtosecond time scale Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams 22 (2019) 014201/1-9
- Soft X-ray nanoscale imaging using a superresolution CCD camera Review of Scientific Instruments 90 (2019) 043111/1-9
- Interaction of ultrafast laser pulses with nanostructure surfaces Encyclopedia of Interfacial Chemistry: Surface Science and Electrochemistry / Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering Elsevier, Kidlington, Oxford, UK (2018) 420-432
- Soft X-ray nanoscale imaging using highly brilliant laboratory sources and new detector concepts SPIE Proceedings Series 10243 (2017) 1024309/1-10
- Prospects of target nanostructuring for laser proton acceleration Scientific Reports 7 (2017) 44030/1-8
- Ultrafast formation of a charge density wave state in 1T−TaS2: observation at nanometer scales using time-resolved X-ray diffraction Physical Review Letters 118 (2017) 247401/1-6
- Excited-state relaxation of hydrated thymine and thymidine measured by liquid-jet photoelectron spectroscopy: experiment and simulation Journal of American Chemical Society 137 (2015) 2931-2938
- Femtosecond X-ray absorption study of electron localization in photoexcited anatase TiO2 Scientific Reports 5 (2015) 14834/1-6