August 2024 Niklas Scheel successfully defended his MSc thesis and now continues to work in our group as a PhD student. Welcome back and good luck!
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June 2024 Our article on ICD in He nanodroplets where a He atoms is excited into a doubly excited state is published in Phys. Rev. Lett., see Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233001 (2024) - Observation of Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Double Excitation of Helium in Nanodroplets (aps.org)
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June 2024 Marcel Mudrich and Henrik Stapelfeldt are organizing the International Quantum Fluid Clusters Conference 2024 at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. See The 15th International Conference on Quantum Fluid Clusters 23 - 26 June 2024 (au.dk)
This conference is preceded by the Training School "Confined Molecular Systems" supported by the COST Action CA21101 "COSY", see COSY Cost action - Training School COST Action CA21101 (cost-cosy.eu)
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January 2024 Kira Bøttcher Jensen joins the group for her Bachelor thesis which will be on the characterization of multiple and indirect photoionization processes in nanohydrated biomolecules. Good luck and have fun in the lab!
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January 2024 Our article on ICD in He nanodroplets induced inelastic electron-helium scattering and electron-ion recombination is published in Phys. Rev. Research, see Phys. Rev. Research 6, 013019 (2024) - Spectroscopically resolved resonant interatomic Coulombic decay in photoexcited large He nanodroplets (aps.org)
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January 2024 Marcel Mudrich received a Project Grant in the Natural and Technical Sciences 2023 from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for the project "DNA under fire – Elucidating multiple and non-local ionization of the building blocks of DNA by X-ray irradiation"
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September 2023 Ltaief Ben Ltaief receives his own Villum Experiment grant to explore vibrational intermolecular Coulombic decay in mixed water clusters. Congratulations!
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August 2023 Our article on unusual photoelectron angular distributions in large helium nanodroplets is published in Nanoscale, see Electron energy loss and angular asymmetry induced by elastic scattering in superfluid helium nanodroplets - Nanoscale (RSC Publishing)
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July 2023 Jakob Dall Asmussen successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Photoexcitation and -ionization of Helium Nanodroplets". Congrats and good luck for the future!
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July 2023 Our article on indirect Interatomic Coulombic Decay induced by inelastic electron-helium scattering in helium nanodroplets is published as Phys. Rev. Lett., see Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 023001 (2023) - Efficient Indirect Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Photoelectron Impact Excitation in Large Pure Helium Nanodroplets (aps.org)
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June 2023 Akgash Sundaralingam successfully defended his master thesis. Congrats and good luck for the future!
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May 2023 Ltaief Ben Ltaief wins the poster prize at the IMAMPC 2023 conference IMAMPC 2023: Welcome – Universität Innsbruck (uibk.ac.at). Congrats!
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February 2023 Asbjørn Ørnemark Lægdsmand successfully defended his master thesis. Congrats and good luck for the future!
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July 2022 Abdul Rahman Abid joined the group as a postdoc funded by the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship -- welcome!
Project 101068805 — Photochem-RS-RP
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July 2022: Our new endstation at the AMO beamline of ASTRID2 synchrotron is now described in detail in this article: A new endstation for extreme-ultraviolet spectroscopy of free clusters and nanodroplets: Review of Scientific Instruments: Vol 93, No 7 (scitation.org)
If you are interested in doing an XUV experiment using PEPICO VMI of pure or doped helium nanodroplets or other atomic or molecular clusters, please contact us.
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June 2022: A new EU-funded COST Action on confined molecular systems, where Marcel is working group leader (WG4), has just been approved Legal-standard-template (cost.eu)
Please consider joining this highly motivated, international and interdisciplinary consortium!
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May 2022: The book on helium nanodroplets, where we contributed to the chapter on:
Ultrafast Dynamics in Helium Droplets is now published and freely available”, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94896-2.
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May 2022: Our new article on Time-Resolved Interatomic Coulombic Decay in Sodium-Doped Helium Nanodroplets” is now out,
see Time-Resolved Ultrafast Interatomic Coulombic Decay in Superexcited Sodium-Doped Helium Nanodroplets | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (acs.org)
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January 2022: The special topics issue on Intense laser matter interaction in atoms, finite systems and condensed media guest-edited by Marcel Mudrich is now published;
Have a look here The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Intense Laser Matter Interaction in Atoms, Finite Systems and Condensed Media - Springer”
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July 2021 Our paper on enhanced above-threshold ionization (ATI) in helium nanodroplets is published in PRL!
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 093201 (2021) - Enhancement of Above Threshold Ionization in Resonantly Excited Helium Nanodroplets (aps.org)
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April 2021 Our paper on time-resolved ICD in helium nanodroplets is published in PRX!
Ultrafast Resonant Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Quantum Fluid Dynamics
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Jan 2021 Marcel Mudrich is guest editor of the EPJ ST Special Issue: Intense laser-matter interaction in atoms, finite and condensed systems together with Sivarama Krishnan from IIT Madras, see EPJ
Please consider submitting a manuscript! The deadline is 31st of March 2021.
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Jan 2021 First experiments with our new apparatus at the local synchrotron ASTRID2 were successful. Here’s a velocity-map image (VMI) of electrons emitted from helium atoms ionized at a photon energy of 32 eV, detected in coincidence with the helium ions.
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July 2020 Björn Bastian joins the group as a postdoc -- welcome!
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Jan. 2020 Our paper on ultrafast relaxation of pure helium nanodroplets is published at Nat. Commun.! See here.
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Oct. 2019 Our paper on ICD of lithium atoms attached to helium nanodroplets is published as J. Phys. Chem. Lett.! See here.
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April 2019 The paper on ultrafast dynamics of the solvated electron in water clusters to which we contributed is published at Phys. Rev. Lett! See here.
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Jan. 2019 Our paper on dICD of doped helium nanodroplets is published at Nat. Phys.! See here.
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Dec. 2018 Marcel Mudrich has received a Distinguished Associate Professor Fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation. http://phys.au.dk/en/news/item/artikel/marcel-mudrich-has-received-a-carlsberg-grant/
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Nov. 2018 Ltaief Ben Ltaief joins the group as a postdoc -- welcome!
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Nov. 2017 Marcel Mudrich and Henrik Stapelfeldt will organize the next "International Conference on Quantum Fluid Custers – QFC 2019" as a WE-Heraeus-Seminar in the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany
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Sept. 2017 Muhammad Hanif joins the group as a postdoc -- welcome!
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