MBI Staff Member – Personal info
Dr. Holger Stiel
holger.stiel(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1351
B2: Imaging and Coherent X-rays
Building B, 3.8
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
- Laboratory soft X-ray setup for transient absorption experiments in the liquid phase using a laser-produced plasma source Optica 11 (2024) 744-752
- Versatile tabletop setup for picosecond time-resolved resonant soft-x-ray scattering and spectroscopy Review of Scientific Instruments 94 (2023) 063102/1-12
- X-ray Fourier transform holography with beam shaping optical elements Optics Express 30 (2022) 15566-15574
- Towards understanding excited-state properties of organic molecules using time-resolved soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22 (2021) 13463/1-18
- Ultrafast NEXAFS spectroscopy in the lab using laser-based sources and advanced X-ray optics SPIE Proceedings Series 11886 (2021) 11886 12/1-9
- Transient laboratory X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy on thin films demonstrated with F8BT SPIE Proceedings Series 11886 (2021) 11886 11/1-8
- Laser-driven resonant magnetic soft-x-ray scattering for probing ultrafast antiferromagnetic and structural dynamics Optica 8 (2021) 1237-1242
- High average power OPCPA MIR-systems for coherent soft x-ray generation accessing inner-shell absorption edges of metals SPIE Proceedings Series 11777 (2021) online
- Towards soft x-ray fluorescence measurements in the laboratory using a laser-produced plasma source and a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor detector Journal of Instrumentation 16 (2021) P03033/1-17
- Laboratory quick near edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy in the soft x-ray range with 100 Hz frame rate using CMOS technology Review of Scientific Instruments 92 (2021) 023102/1-8