Ultrafast dynamics in microsolvated biomolecules

Programa de doctorado que propone la actividad

• Láseres y Aplicaciones en Química (Quimiláser)

Persona de contacto

Nombre y apellidos: Asier Longarte

• Teléfono: 94 601 8086
• Email: asier.longarte@ehu.eus

Breve descripción de la actividad

La actividad consiste en una conferencia impartida por el Prof. Jochen Küpper, seguida de un debate con las y los doctorandos sobre los contenidos de la misma.

Ponente: Prof. Jochen Küpper

Actual Position and Research Interest

Jochen Küpper leads the Controlled Molecule Imaging group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY. He is also Professor of Physics and Professor by courtesy of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg. Among other distinctions, he received the Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.

His group’s research focuses on understanding the details of complex molecules at work by disentangling the ultrafast dynamics during (bio-)chemical reactions under well-defined conditions. The results provide important information on the dynamical basis of chemistry for a better understanding of processes ranging from chemistry to medicine, for example improved chemicals and materials, energy harvesting and storage as well as drug development. The research builds on developments of groundbreaking approaches to control molecules and nanoparticles in the gas phase, including their shock freezing, separation of structural isomers and fixation in space. It further includes pushing atomic-resolution imaging modalities to complex molecules and to the limits of spatial and temporal resolution, exploiting the group’s highly controlled sample techniques and both ultrafast table-top laser and X-ray facility light sources.

https://www.controlled-molecule-imaging.org/team/jochen_kuepper

Professional Experience

• Lead Scientist, Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron DESY (since 2021)
• Professor by courtesy in the Department of Chemistry, Universität Hamburg (since 2015)
• Member of Scientific Board, DESY Photon Science (since 2013)
• Professor in the Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg (since 2010)
• Group leader at Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron DESY (since 2010)
• Group leader in the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany (2004-2010)
• PostDoc at the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics "Rijnhuizen" (Gerard Meijer), Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (2002-2003)
• PostDoc in the Department of Chemistry (Roger E. Miller†), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA (2001-2002)
• Research associate in the Institute for Physical Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany (1996-2000)
• Research associate in the Department of Chemistry (David W. Pratt), University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (1995)

Calendario

13 de octubre de 2026.

Lugar de impartición

Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Leioa