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José stays in the group as a PhD student!
José Antonio Merkelj starts his PhD after successfully obtaining his MSc degree in Molecular and Biological Chemistry at EPFL, which ended with a Thesis in our group on the excited state dynamics in chiral platinum-helicene complexes with…
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Christmas Dinner 2024
With Christmas just around the corner, the group went out for dinner. We are pleased to welcome Kyle, our very new postdoc, and wish everyone a happy new year!
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Kyle joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher!
Kyle Barlow obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry on ultrafast molecular magnetism from the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Dr. J. O. Johansson. Kyle's project in the group will initially focus on the setup development, before…
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Group excursion to Stockhorn
The group headed to the Stockhorn for a hike at the foot of the Alps. Postcard views and vermicelles decorated this outdoor day!
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SCS Fall meeting 2024
The whole group joined Fribourg to participate in the SCS Fall Meeting 2024. Livia presented her work on a chiral LED lanthanide complex with CPL, which earned her the runner-up prize for best oral presentation in Physical Chemistry!…
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José Antonio's Master thesis presentation
Congratulation, José! After one year in the group, José Antonio presented his work on Pt[n]helicene complexes. This successfully concluded his MSc thesis, co-supervised by Prof. Andreas Ostwerwalder from EPFL, and permitted him to obtain…
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Malte's inaugural lecture
With an inaugural lecture entitled "Molecules in motion: Capturing the fastest chemical transformations with ultrashort laser pulses", Malte took the opportunity to introduce himself and the group's field of research in an accessible manner…
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Lipari School on Applications and Theory of Chirality
José, Pieter and Tristan came to the idyllic landscape of Lipari in the Aeolian Islands to attend a summer school on chirality, ranging from biology to pharmaceuticals and nanomaterials, with experimental and theoretical contributions from…
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Summer conferences 2024
This summer, Malte presented brand new results from the group in the Postdeadline Paper session at the 23rd International Conference On Ultrafast Phenomena 2024 in Barcelona, Spain and in an invited talk at the 45th International Conference…
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Group dinner
The group got together to enjoy a delicious meal at restaurant mezzo! This group dinner definitely had an Italian flavour.
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Lecture at SeniorenUniversität on ultrafast spectroscopy
Malte gave a lecture on ultrafast lasers and spectroscopy at the SeniorenUni at University of Basel. More than 500 participants followed the lecture on one of the days or online. Many interesting questions and discussions came up after the…
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Experiments at LACUS
Livia and Malte finished the series of deep-UV experiments on chiral Pt[n]helicene complexes and completed the ultrafast chiral experiments on chiral lanthanide complexes. Lots of data analysis to do now!
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Laser laboratory is ready
Our laser laboratory at University of Basel is finally ready and we have started to design and construct our new laser set ups. Stay tuned for further updates in the future. Photos courtesy of Michael Kunz, vollbild fotografie…
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First experiments on chiral Pt complexes
Livia and José performed the first transient absorption experiments on chiral Pt complexes provided by Prof. Matthew Fuchter (Imperial College London) and Prof. Jeanne Crassous (CNRS Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes). Well done for…