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Florian attended the XUVTRPES Workshop in Freiburg - “Extreme ultraviolet time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy: toward the ultimate probe of molecular dynamics”. Many interesting talks and topics within this emerging field! more

December 2024: We welcome a new member to the group. Postdoc Dr. Nicolas Velasquez will support the installation of the laser system and will study aqueous solutions uing both liquid-jet photoemission spectroscopy and liquid-jet resonant inelastic x-ray scattering.

EASI beamtimes at beamline P04 (PETRA III, DESY) with our group and the groups of Olle Björneholm (Uni Uppsala) and Hendrik Bluhm (FHI).

Florian and Nicolas conducted a COLTRIMS beamtime at the FlexPES beamline (MAX IV) on “Ultrafast Energy- and Charge Transfer in Microsolvated Biomolecules” with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Noelle Walsh from MAX IV.

Florian participated in a beamtime at beamline P04 (PETRA III, DESY) on “Systematic investigation on inner-shell photoelectron circular dichroism as a function of a distance from a stereocenter” with the Kassel group.

Florian and Nicolas attended the International Conference on Electron Capture in an environment - real experiments and models and met many friends from the Intermolecular Coulombic Decay community. more

Michele, Harman, Nicolas, and Florian conducted a LJ-PS beamtime at the FlexPES beamline (MAX IV) on “Probing nucleobase-metal interactions in aqueous solutions via resonant intermolecular Coulombic decay”. Using Gunnar Öhrwall’s setup was great fun.

Florian participated in a beamtime at beamline P04 (PETRA III, DESY) on “L-Shell Photoabsorption of Metallic Fe for X-Ray Astronomy” with Daniel Savin’s group from New York City.

Florian attended the International Workshop on Photoionization (IWP) and Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) in Ascona, gave a talk on the “Radiationless decay spectrum of O 1s double core holes in liquid water”, and met many colleagues and friends. more

Florian joined the annual Emmy Noether Meeting in Potsdam, met interesting fellows, and learned a lot from the DFG colleagues. more

Florian attended the Workshop on high-resolution hemispherical electron spectrometer at the SQS instrument at European XFEL - exciting opportunities ahead. more

Florian conducted a COLTRIMS beamtime at beamline P04 (PETRA III, DESY) on “Ultrafast Energy- and Charge Transfer in Microsolvated Biomolecules” with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Henrik, Russell, Nicolas, and Florian visited laser laboratories at the FHI PC department, BESSY II, and the Max-Born-Institut and gained many insights.

Florian participated in a beamtime at beamline P04 (PETRA III, DESY) on “X-ray induced time-resolved, high-resolution luminescence spectroscopy of solvated nucleotides” with the Kassel group.

Florian participated in beamtimes at beamline P04 (PETRA III, DESY) on “Imaging the dynamics of core-ionized water in real time” and at beamline GALAXIES (SOLEIL) on “The Fenton reaction at the liquid-liquid interface probed by X-ray emission spectroscopy”, and visited Marc Simon’s group at Sorbonne Université together with Henrik Haak.

Florian attended the CMWS Water Days 2024 at DESY in Hamburg and met many water enthusiasts. More than 80 participants discussed the key challenges in molecular water research and the status and future of the Centre for Molecular Water Science. more

The “Photon Science 2023 - Highlights and Annual Report” presents the activities and the perspective of research with photons at DESY. Eva Muchová, Florian, and Olle Björneholm contributed a Science Highlight on ‘Hot spots’ of radiation damage formed around aqueuos metal ions - How X-rays cause excessive ionisation of water around metal ions. more

Florian and Bernd Winter attended the DESY Photon Science Users’ meeting 2024. Bernd gave a nice talk on “Investigating biomolecular structure in the aqueous phase using photoemission spectroscopy” and Florian presented two posters on “Photoelectron Circular Dichroism from Aqueous-Phase Chiral Molecules” and “Liquid-Jet Photoelectron Spectroscopy from Sugar and Adenosine Triphosphate Aqueous Solution”. more

Florian visited Richard Wilhelm’s group at TU Wien to discuss interesting physics, joint interests, and to give a talk about the work using COLTRIMS and the European XFEL. It was a real pleasure and we are looking forward to some groundbreaking experimental work together, stay tuned!

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has selected Dr. Florian Trinter for the prestigious Emmy Noether Programme. Commencing in January 2024, Dr. Trinter will lead the Emmy Noether Group focused on "Dynamics of photoionization-induced processes in laser-prepared gas and aqueous-phase samples" (DYNAMO-PLAS) within the Molecular Physics Department at the Fritz-Haber-Institut. The project has been endowed with a budget of 2.2 million EUR. more