Department of Molecular Physics

The research in the Department of Molecular Physics focuses on the structure and the intra- and inter-molecular dynamics of molecular systems, from diatomic molecules to biological macromolecules, either in isolation or in interaction with their environment. For this, new experimental methods to manipulate and control, to characterise and to spectroscopically investigate these molecular systems are developed and exploited. 
 

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Innovation Award for Dr. Bernd Winter

Dr. Bernd Winter, Group Leader in the Molecular Physics Department at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, has been awarded the Synchrotron-Radiation Innovation Award. This honor recognizes his groundbreaking contributions to the advancement of liquid-jet photoelectron spectroscopy. more

First Bose-Einstein Condensate in Berlin

An important milestone has been achieved by Dr. Giacomo Valtolina and his team at the Molecular Physics department of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society: the creation of the first Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) of dysprosium atoms in Berlin. more

<span><span><span>Scientists Unveil New Insights into Air Pollution Formation</span></span></span>

A team of researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute/Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the synchrotrons PETRA III in Hamburg and SOLEIL in Gif-sur-Yvette (France), the Sorbonne University in Paris, the ETH Zurich, and the PSI Center for Energy and Environmental Science (Switzerland) have made a groundbreaking discovery in understanding how air pollution forms at the molecular level. Their investigation, publishedmore

<span><span><span>New Study Sheds Light on the Hidden World of Solvation Shells</span></span></span>

Scientists from the Fritz Haber Institute, Sorbonne University, and Uppsala University have made a groundbreaking discovery that can help to improve our understanding of the behavior of ions in solutions. Their paper, titled „The solvation shell probed by resonant intermolecular Coulombic decay," has been published in the journal Nature Communications. more

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