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
- Transient sub-nanosecond soft x-ray NEXAFS spectroscopy on organic thin films Analytical Chemistry 92 (2020) 15611-15615
- Ptychography and Single-Shot Nanoscale Imaging with Plasma-Based Laser Sources X-Ray Lasers 2018 (2020) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers ICXRL 2018 (2020) 155-162
- Laboratory soft X-ray microscopy with an integrated visible-light microscope - Correlative workflow for faster 3D cell imaging Microscopy and Microanalysis 26 (2020) 1124-1132
- Laboratory water-window x-ray microscopy Optica 7 (2020) 658-674
- Time-resolved near-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy in the water window and beyond using laboratory-based laser plasma sources X-Ray Lasers 2018 (2020) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers ICXRL 2018 (2020) 147-154
- Soft X-ray nanoscale imaging using a superresolution CCD camera Review of Scientific Instruments 90 (2019) 043111/1-9
- Towards Poisson noise limited optical pump soft X-ray probe NEXAFS spectroscopy using a laserproduced plasma source Optics Express 27 (2019) 36524/1-14
- Lab-scale soft x-ray ptychography: advanced nanoscale imaging and beam diagnostics SPIE Proceedings Series 11111 (2019) 111110F/1-7
- Coherent diffraction imaging with tabletop XUV sources X-Ray Lasers 2016, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers Springer, Heidelberg (2018) 231-241
- 2D and 3D nanoscale imaging using high repetition rate laboratory-based soft x-ray sources X-Ray Lasers 2016, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers Springer, Heidelberg (2018) 265-272