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SCS Fall meeting 2025

It was a pleasure for us to participate at the SCS Fall meeting 2025 at the Irchel campus in Zürich. Pieter and José presented their work at the poster session, which earned Pieter the runner-up prize for best poster in the PC session! A…

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Group hike to the Buochserhorn

We conquered the steep slopes of the Buochserhorn and its inhabitants on our last group excursion! The view from the summit was well deserved.

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Summer conferences 2025

This summer, Malte gave invited talks at the 20th International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopy in Debrecen, Hungary, and at the 31st International Symposium on Molecular Beams in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He was also selected by the…

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Group dinner

The group gathered at Cantina Don Camillo to celebrate the latest research achievements, the new group members and the end of the spring semester! A nod to the Beatles and their ‘Please Please Me’.

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The 16th Femtochemistry conference

The group travelled to Trieste (IT) to join Femto16. Livia contributed with a talk on a chiral LED lanthanide complex with CPL, while Pieter, José and Tristan joined the poster sessions to present their projects. Many thanks to the…

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Jaromír joins the group as a MSc student

Jaromír Setlik is currently enrolled in Universität Basel’s Chemistry MSc program and is joining our group for 6 months to perform his MSc research with us. He will investigate the excited state dynamics of chiral carbon-based macrocycles,…

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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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