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. Determination of the aggregate size in chlorophyll a oligomers by non-linear absorption spectroscopy on the ps and fs timescale

    A. Schubert, M. A. Krikunova, H. Stiel, J. Ehlert, D. Leupold, H. Lokstein

     Photosynthesis:: Mechanisms and effects (1998) 325-329
  2. The cycloreversion of a substituted palladium phthalocyanine containing epidioxybridges

    W. Freyer, M. Hild, H. Stiel, D. Leupold

     Journal of Information Recording 24 (1998) 95-100
  3. One- and two exciton bands in the LH2 antenna of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila

    H. Stiel, D. Leupold, K. Teuchner, F. Nowak, B. Ücker, H. Scheer, R. J. Cogdell

     Chemical Physics Letters 276 (1997) 62-69
  4. Fluorescence and excited state absorption in modified pigments of bacterial photosynthesis: a comparative study of metal-substituted bacteriochlorophylls a

    K. Teuchner, H. Stiel, D. Leupold, A. Scherz, D. Noy, I. Simonin, G. Hartwich, H. Scheer

     Journal of Luminescence 72-74 (1997) 612-614
  5. One- and two-photon induced photochemistry of modified palladiumporphyrazines involving molecular oxygen

    W. Freyer, H. Stiel, M. Hild, K. Teuchner, D. Leupold

     Photochem. Photobiol. 66 (1997) 596-604
  6. Quantitative comparison of excited state properties and intensity dependent photosensitization by rose bengal

    H. Stiel, K. Teuchner, A. Paul, D. Leupold, I. E. Kochevar

     Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology 33 (1996) 245-254
  7. Intensity-dependent enzyme photosensitization using 532 nm nanosecond laser pulses

    C. R. Lambert, H. Stiel, D. Leupold, H. C. Lynch, I. E. Kochevar

     Photochemistry and Photobiology 63 (1996) 154-160
  8. Mono- and biexcitonic states in J-aggregates of pseudoisocyanine studied by nonlinear polarization and nonlinear absorption spectroscopy

    H. Stiel, B. Voigt, J. Hirsch, K. Teuchner, D. Leupold

     Advanced Materials 7 (1995) 445-448
  9. Excited state behavior of phytochrome Pr

    K. Teuchner, M. Schulz, H. Stiel, M. Maisch, W. Rüdiger

     Photochemistry and Photobiology 62 (1995) 1076-1080
  10. Two-photon excitation of alkyl substituted magnesium phthalocyanine: radical formation via higher excited states

    H. Stiel, K. Teuchner, A. Paul, W. Freyer, D. Leupold

     Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A-Chemistry 80 (1994) 289-298