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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…

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Research visit to Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh

Pieter, Tristan and Malte were hosted by our collaborator Dr. Chris Brahms to learn about pulse compression and continuum generation in gas-filled hollow core fibers. We learnt how to design model and set up fiber systems in the lab. It was…

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Group hike together with the Willitsch group

Group hike to the Tüfelsschlucht near Hägendorf together with the group of Prof. Willitsch! We had excellent weather, found a huge helicopter and had lunch at Schäferstuben Allerheiligenberg. We had a great day and thank Livia for the…

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Welcome drinks and dinner with the new group members

We caught the last rays of late summer sun at the Hirscheneck to welcome the new members in our group and to share drinks and food with our friends and colleagues from the group of Prof. Willitsch.

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Tristan joins the group as a PhD student

Tristan Blandenier obtained his MSc in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences from the University of Bern, where he performed his MSc research with Prof. Natalie Banerji on the photophysics of organic photovoltaic electron acceptors. Tristan’s…

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José joins the group as a MSc student

José Antonio Merkelj Abi-Fadel is currently enrolled in EPFL’s Molecular & Biological Chemistry MSc program and is joining our group for 12 months to perform his MSc research with us. He will investigate the excited state dynamics of chiral…

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Pieter joins the group as a PhD student

Pieter Brongers completed his MSc studies in Nanoscience at University of Groningen and performed his MSc research with Prof. Maxim Pchenitchnikov on the intrastructural functionalization of light-harvesting nanotubes. Pieter’s PhD project…

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Optical tables installed in the laboratory

We received the optical tables for our new laboratory and installed them in the lab. The transport was done by Hetramo AG, who did a fantastic job and helped us with the connection of the table modules. Big step forward for the group!

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Summer conferences

Livia and Malte went to Chirality2023 in Rome and Femto15 in Berlin to present the group’s work on chiral photochemistry and spectroscopy through posters and talks. Malte got the chance to give an invited keynote at Chirality2023, which was…

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New experiments at LACUS

In cooperation with the Lausanne Center for Ultrafast Science at EPFL in Lausanne, Livia and Malte spent several weeks in their laser labs to obtain new results for the investigation of chiral lanthanide complexes with extremely pure…

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