MBI Staff Member – Personal info

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 Publications

  1. Laboratory soft X-ray setup for transient absorption experiments in the liquid phase using a laser-produced plasma source

    R. Gnewkow, H. Stiel, A. Jonas, S. Schönfelder, J. Probst, T. Krist, B. Kanngiesser, I. Mantouvalou

    Optica 11 (2024) 744-752
  2. Versatile tabletop setup for picosecond time-resolved resonant soft-x-ray scattering and spectroscopy

    M. Borchert, J. Brenzel, R. Gnewkow, L. Lunin, T. Sidiropoulos, J. Tümmler, I. Will, T. Noll, O. Reichel, D. Rohloff, A. Erko, T. Krist, C. v. Korff Schmising, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt, H. Stiel, D. Schick

    Review of Scientific Instruments 94 (2023) 063102/1-12
  3. X-ray Fourier transform holography with beam shaping optical elements

    C. Pratsch, S. Rehbein, S. Werner, P. Guttmann, H. Stiel, G. Schneider

    Optics Express 30 (2022) 15566-15574
  4. Towards understanding excited-state properties of organic molecules using time-resolved soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy

    H. Stiel, J. Braenzel, A. Jonas, R. Gnewkow, L. T. Glöggler, D. Sommer, T. Krist, A. Erko, J. Tümmler, I. Mantouvalou

    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22 (2021) 13463/1-18
  5. Ultrafast NEXAFS spectroscopy in the lab using laser-based sources and advanced X-ray optics

    H. Stiel, J. Braenzel, J. Tuemmler, A. Jonas, I. Mantouvalou, A. Erko, A. Heilmann, van Moerbeck-Bock, M., M. Schnürer

    SPIE Proceedings Series 11886 (2021) 11886 12/1-9
  6. Transient laboratory X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy on thin films demonstrated with F8BT

    A. Jonas, K. Witte, B. Kanngießer, H. Stiel, I. Mantouvalou

    SPIE Proceedings Series 11886 (2021) 11886 11/1-8
  7. Laser-driven resonant magnetic soft-x-ray scattering for probing ultrafast antiferromagnetic and structural dynamics

    D. Schick, M. Borchert, J. Braenzel, H. Stiel, J. Tümmler, D. E. Bürgler, A. Firsov, C. von Korff Schmising, B. Pfau, S. Eisebitt

    Optica 8 (2021) 1237-1242
  8. High average power OPCPA MIR-systems for coherent soft x-ray generation accessing inner-shell absorption edges of metals

    M. van Moerbeck-Bock, T. Feng, A. Heilmann, L. Ehrentraut, H. Stiel, M. Hennecke, T. Sidiropoulos, C. von Korff Schmising, S. Eisebitt, M. Schnürer

    SPIE Proceedings Series 11777 (2021) online
  9. Towards soft x-ray fluorescence measurements in the laboratory using a laser-produced plasma source and a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor detector

    S. Staeck, Y. Kayser, J. Baumann, A. Jonas, I. Mantouvalou, R. Hartmann, B. Kanngießer, H. Stiel

    Journal of Instrumentation 16 (2021) P03033/1-17
  10. Laboratory quick near edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy in the soft x-ray range with 100 Hz frame rate using CMOS technology

    A. Jonas, S. Staeck, B. Kanngießer, H. Stiel, I. Mantouvalou

    Review of Scientific Instruments 92 (2021) 023102/1-8