2.2 Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics

Project coordinators: A. Rouzée , K. Amini

Recent Highlights

Observing laser induced shape changes of C60 by time resolved X-ray imaging

A prototype molecule, the famous football-shaped “Buckminsterfullerene” C60 was studied both experimentally and theoretically by groups from the Max…

Chemistry in Motion - Jochen Mikosch receives 2 million Euro of funding from the European Research Council (ERC)

Jochen Mikosch receives a prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). In a highly competitive and thorough procedure it…

One key scientific driver for the development of intense x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has been the prospect to transfer the concepts of…

Scientists from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) in Berlin combined state-of-the-art experiments and…

Extremely short electron packets are the key to many new applications such as ultrafast electron microscopy and laboratory-scale free-electron lasers.…

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