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2020

May 2019

May 2019

Sophia Kolbinger joins the group as a bachelor student. She studies chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz. She investigates mineral water interfaces using SFG spectroscopy. For her bachelor thesis, she analyses the behaviour of calciumflourid upon flow at high pH.
March 2020

March 2020

Patrick Ober participated at the winter school in Bielefeld "Investigating Solid-Liquid Interfaces: The Calcite-Water Interface at the Molecular Level". During the poster session, he won a poster prize for his poster titled "Following Surface Reactions Along a Flow Channel".

2019

November 2019

Sudipta defends his PhD thesis in Chemistry at the University of Mainz. He is now working as a post-doc in Stockholm University with Foivos Perakis on structural dynamics of water.
Jenée Cyran and Shumei Sun leave the group to pursue assistant professorship positions at Baylor University, Texas, and at Beijing Normal University, China, respectively.
October 2019

October 2019

Patrick was awarded the third prize on the MPIP poster day; his poster was titled "Position-resolved surface chemistry of minerals upon Water flow."
Veronika Wank joins as a PhD student, working on environmentally-relevant compounds at interfacial-water.
September 2019

September 2019

Martin Buessler joins the group as a PhD student. Martin did his Master degree in Matter and Material in extreme conditions and his Diploma of Engineer in Physics and Computer sciences at the Polytechnic school and at the University of Orléans in France. For his PhD thesis, he will investigate the fundamental mechanisms of photo-catalytic water splitting using vibrational SFG spectroscopy.
August 2019

August 2019

Jenée Cyran received the prestigious Young Investigator Award of the American Chemical Society (ACS), awarded once a year by the Physical Chemistry Division of the ACS. Jenée has been working on the observation of how different trace gaces interact with ice. She presented her work at the Fall meeting of the ACS in San Diego.
May 2019

May 2019

Kevin Machel (bachelor student) is awarded a poster prize at the Bunsentagung 2019, Jena.
April 2019

April 2019

Simon Schlegel starts a new position as Referent for Strahlenschutz at the Regierungspräsidium, Karlsruhe.
February 2019

February 2019

Jan Schäfer graduates on the 20th of February with a degree in Chemistry. He is now working as a Field Engineer at Coherent.
January 2019

January 2019

Lisa Dreier succesfully graduates with a degree in Chemistry on the 21st of January.
Lisa now works at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR), at the Institute of Technical Physics, based in Stutttgart.
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2018

October 2018

October 2018

Patrick Ober has joined the group as a PhD student to study water interfaces under non-equilibrium conditions.
August 2018

August 2018

Lisa Dreier won a prize on the Gordon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy in Biddeford, US, for her poster titled "Saturation of charge-induced water alignment at model membrane surfaces".
July 2018

July 2018

Jenée Cyran was awarded the Victoria Buch Memorial Poster Award at the GRC for Water and Aqueous Solutions. The title of the poster was "Molecular Hydrophobicity at a Hydrophilic Surface".
May 2018

May 2018

On May 10, 2018 the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft has awarded the Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein prize to Dr. Ellen Backus. With this prize the Bunsen Gesellschaft recognizes Ellen Backus for her original and unique experimental contribution to unravel the structure and dynamics of molecules, especially water, at interface. The award was handed to her during the opening ceremony of this years meeting of the german physical chemistry society in Hannover.

2017

July 2017

July 2017

Lisa Dreier won 2nd place in the Best Poster Presentation competition at the Lorentz & Psi-k Workshop "Fundamental Electrocatalysis: Theory Meets Experiments" in Leiden, Netherlands from 26 to 30 June 2017.
April 2017

April 2017

Alejandra Sánchez successfully defends her PhD-thesis and is granted a doctoral degree in chemistry.
April 2017

April 2017

On 15 March 2017 Ellen Backus was appointed Extraordinary Professor at the Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam.

2016

December 2016

December 2016

How does ice melt? Layer by layer!
Alejandra Sánchez, Marc-Jan van Zadel, Jenée Cyran, Yuki Nagata, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have a paper Experimental and theoretical evidence for bilayer-by-bilayer surface melting of crystalline ice published in PNAS. It is a collaborative paper with University of Toyama, Tufts University, University of Mainz, FOM Institute AMOLF, Tohoku University, Kyoto University and University of California.
November 2016

November 2016

Chunyan Ma joins the group as a visiting postdoctoral researcher to study the catalytic mechanism of small molecule gas oxidation.
September 2016

September 2016

Prerna Sudera joins the group as a PhD student to study ice interfaces.
August 2016

August 2016

Jenée Cyran has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers on Shedding Light on the Mechanism of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Reactions on Ice Surfaces.
July 2016

July 2016

Saman Hosseinpour will be awarded The Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award 2016 for the best doctoral thesis in corrosion science and electrochemistry" world-wide at the PRiME2016 meeting on Honolulu in October. more

2015

November 2015

Ruth Livingstone, Yuki Nagata, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have a paper entitled Two types of water at the water – surfactant interface revealed by time resolved vibrational spectroscopy accepted to JACS. more
September 2015

September 2015

Ellen Backus speaks at the Annual Meeting of New Champions at the 2015 World Economic Forum.
July 2015

July 2015

Jenée Cyran joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher to study ice surfaces using SFG. Additionally Sudipta Das joins the group as a PhD student, working on the dynamics of water on the charged water-air interface.

April 2015

Ellen Backus, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative review on Molecular Structure and Dynamics of Water at the Water-Air Interface Studied with Surface-Specific Vibrational Spectroscopy published in Angewandte Chemie.

30th March-1st April 2015

The group attends the International Workshop for Sum Frequency Generation in Wiesbaden Naurod, Germany, where Alejandra and Simon presented posters.
15 - 20th March 2015

15 - 20th March 2015

At the DPG Spring Meeting, Ruth won the poster prize for the Chemical and Polymer Physics Devision, for her poster entitled "Ultrafast dynamics of membrane-bound water molecules revealed by two-dimensional surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy". In addition, Simon won a helicopter for having the best aim in the Newport OpticsCage+TM-Fight Competition
15 - 20th March 2015

15 - 20th March 2015

The group attends the German Physical Society (DPG) spring meeting. Saman, Alejandra and Ellen give talks while Simon and Ruth present posters.
9 - 11th March 2015

9 - 11th March 2015

Ruth Livingstone gives an invited talk at the National Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry (NSRP – 2015), IIT Kanpur, India
18th - 22nd January 2015

18th - 22nd January 2015

Saman and Simon attend the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar on Electrochemical Surface Science, where Saman gives a talk and Simon presents a poster
6-8th January 2015

6-8th January 2015

Ruth attends the Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group Conference in Nottingham, where she gives a talk and chairs a session

2014

November 2014

November 2014

Ellen Backus and Marie-Pierre Gaigeot from the Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne in France have been awarded a joint ANR-DFG grant. The title of the grant is "Wasserdynamik an Grenzflächen zwischen Luft und ionischen Lösungen: Synergie zwischen SFG-Experimenten und DFTMD-Simulationen"
27th - 30th October 2014

27th - 30th October 2014

Ruth Livingstone attends the WE-Heraeus seminar "Exploring Solvation Science" in Bad Honnef, and gives a "Hot-Topics" talk
18th August 2014

18th August 2014

Simon Schmitt joins the group as a PhD student to study water splitting on TiO2 surfaces.
8th August 2014

8th August 2014

Saman Hosseinpour won a poster prise at the Gordon Research Conference for Vibrational Spectroscopy with a poster entitled "In-Situ Monitoring of Ultra-Slow Oxidation of Copper in Atmospheric Pressure"
3rd-8th August 2014

3rd-8th August 2014

Ellen, Ruth, Saman and Alejandra all attend the Grodon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectrascopy in Biddeford, Maine. Ellen gives an invited talk and the others present posters.
2nd-3rd August 2014

2nd-3rd August 2014

Saman, Ruth and Alejandra all attend the Grodon Research Seminar on Vibrational Spectrascopy in Biddeford, Maine. Saman gives an invited talk and the others present posters.
June 2014

June 2014

Ellen Backus, Johannes Hunger, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on Aqueous Heterogeneity at the Air/Water Interface Revealed by 2D-HD-SFG Spectroscopy published in Angewandte Chemie.

June 2014

Ellen Backus, Johannes Hunger, Sapun Parekh and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with Dan Lis  on Liquid flow along a solid surface reversibly alters interfacial chemistry published in Science.

June 2014

Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on Extreme surface propensity of halide ions in water published in Nature Communications.
April 2014

April 2014

Ellen Backus has been appointed to the Minerva Program by the Max Planck Society (MPS) as of April 1, 2014.
May 2014

May 2014

Dr. Pratik Sen, Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, arrives for a two month collaberative visit.
30th March - 4th April 2014

30th March - 4th April 2014

The group attend the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society) Spring Meeting in Dresden, where Ruth gives a talk and Alejandra and Maria present postors.
March 2014

March 2014

Ellen Backus is appointed as a junior faculty member of the MPGC. The MPGC is a virtual department across two Max Planck Institutes and four faculties of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.
6th March 2014

6th March 2014

Welcome to Saman Hosseinpour who joins the group as a postdoc to study water splitting on TiO2.
17th January 2014

17th January 2014

Cho-Shuen Hsieh Graduates in Amsterdam with a PhD entitled: Ultrafast dynamics of interfacial water
3rd January 2014

3rd January 2014

Zhen Zhang leaves the group to continue her career in China

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