Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy

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, 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 Publications

  1. A photoreversible porphyrazine as model compound for optical data storage

    W. Freyer, H. Stiel, D. Leupold

     Journal of Information Recording 25 (2000) 95-104
  2. Photophysical studies of the pheophorbide a dimer

    I. Eichwurzel, H. Stiel, B. Röder

     Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 54 (2000) 194-200
  3. Photophysical consequences of coupling bacteriochlorophyll a with serine and its resulting solubility in water

    I. Eichwurzel, H. Stiel, K. Teuchner, D. Leupold, H. Scheer, A. Scherz

     Photochem.Photobiol. 72 (2000) 204-209
  4. Pigment-protein architecture in the light harvesting antenna complexes of purple bacteria: does the crystal structure reflect the native pigment-protein arrangement?

    D. Leupold, B. Voigt, W. Beenken, H. Stiel

     FEBS letters 480 (2000) 73-78
  5. Nichtlineare optische Spektroskopie an organischen Molekülen: Analytische Untersuchungen zum Informationsgehalt

    S. Oberländer, D. Leupold, H. Stiel, I. Eichwurzel, K. Teuchner

     Wissenschaftliche Schriftenreihe Physik, Verlag Dr. Köster, Berlin Band 70 (2000)
  6. Picosecond transient absorption of Xanthene dyes

    O. Berndt, F. Bandt, I. Eichwurzel, H. Stiel

     Acta Physica Polonica A 95 (1999) 207-220
  7. Photophysical characterization of the pure light harvesting antenna B850 of Rb. sphaeroides. Implications to ultrafast energy transfer 800-850 nm

    D. Leupold, H. Stiel, J. Ehlert, F. Nowak, K. Teuchner, B. Voigt, M. Bandilla, B. Ücker, H. Scheer

     Chemical Physics Letters 301 (1999) 537-545
  8. Excited state properties of bili-proteins: I. Phytochrome Pr

    K. Teuchner, M. Schulz-Evers, H. Stiel, D. Strehlow, W. Rüdiger

     J. Photochem. Photobiol. B: Biology 53 (1999) 115-120
  9. Instantaneous fluorescence quantum yield - a new quantity with characteristic 'fingerprints' for excited-state processes

    K. Teuchner, H. Stiel, J. Ehlert, I. Eichwurzel, D. Leupold, S. Oberländer

     Journal of Fluorescence 9 (1999) 67-71
  10. Non-linear and transient absorption spectroscopy of magnesium(II)-tetrabenzoporphyrin in solution

    H. Stiel, A. Volkmer, I. Rückmann, B. Röder

     Optics Communications 155 (1998) 135-143