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
- XAFS spectroscopy by an X-ray tubed based spectrometer using a novel type HOPG mosaic crystal and an optimized image processing Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry Spectrom.Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry online (2015)
- Nanoscale imaging using coherent and incoherent laboratory based soft x-ray sources X-Ray Lasers 2014 - X-Ray Lasers 2014, Springer Proceedings in Physics of the 14th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers online (2015) 267-273
- 3D nanoscale imaging of biological samples with laboratory-based soft X-ray sources SPIE Proceedings Series, X-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources: Development and Applications XI 95890L (2015) 95890M-95899
- Output beam polarisation of x-ray lasers with transient inversion SPIE Proc., X-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources: Development and Applications XI 9589 (2015) 69-75
- Transient collisionally excited x-ray lasers pumped with one long and two short pulses X-Ray Lasers 2014, Springer Proceedings in Physics of the 14th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers 169 (2015) 53-59
- Polarization of amplified spontaneous emission in a plasma active medium Physical Review A 92 (2015) 043807 /1-7
- A laboratory 8 keV transmission full-field x-ray microscope with a polycapillary as condenser for bright and dark field imaging Review of Scientific Instruments 86 (2015) 083708/1-6
- High average power, highly brilliant laser-produced plasma source for soft X-ray spectroscopy Review of Scientific Instruments 86 (2015) 035116/1-9
- High pressure treated Bacillus subtilis spores — Structural analysis by means of synchrotron and laboratory based soft X-ray microscopy Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies online (2015)
- Source development of novel coherent X-rays and their applications in JAEA (Buchkapitel) X-Ray Lasers 2012 147 (2014) 143-150