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Kiel, 22 December 2011: Gernot Friedrichs promoted to W2 Professor with tenure |
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Following his sucessful work in the last five years in the DFG-funded Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean", Gernot Friedrichs has been promoted to W2 Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at CAU Kiel. After earning his Ph.D. at the University of Göttingen and postdoctoral work at Stanford University, Gernot joined our work group as Research Scientist in January 2002. In August 2007, he officially started his own research group as a Junior Professor in the Excellence Cluster "The Future Ocean". The promotion to W2 Professor with tenure acknowledges his outstanding achievements in the Chemistry of Ocean Interfaces, Ultrahigh Sensitivity Laser Spectroscopy, and High Temperature Chemical Kinetics. Congratulations! |
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Kiel, 25 May 2011: SFB 677 "Function by Switching" extended for second funding period |
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The German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund the Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB 667 "Function by Switching" at CAU Kiel with about 8 million EUR for a second period until 2015. In one continuing (A1) and one new project (B10) in our group, we will investigate the dynamics of molecular switches in solution, in self-assembled monolayers on nanoparticles and on flat surfaces, and in functional photoresponsive environments and systems. To achive our highly challenging goals, we use state-of-the-art femto- and picosecond time-resolved optical spectroscopies [e.g., broadband femtosecond transient absorption, femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion, femtosecond broadband fluorescence, vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG), and second harmonic generation (SHG) spectroscopies]. |
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In SFB 677, work groups from Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science at CAU Kiel join forces in 18 sub-projects to develop and investigate tiny light-driven molecular switches to realize new functions and functional materials. The Collaborative Research Centre has been inaugurated on 1 July 2007. The speaker is Prof. Rainer Herges of the Otto Diels Institute of Organic Chemistry. Our continuing project A1 is led jointly by Prof. Bernd Hartke, Dr. Falk Renth, and Prof. Temps, our new project B8 is led jointly by Prof. Gernot Friedrichs and Prof. Temps. Please contact us for questions and new open positions for Ph.D. and Master/Diploma Thesis projects. |
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press release. Click here for the SFB 677 homepage. Click here for more information on project A1: "Ultrafast Dynamics of Photo-induced Switching Processes" Click here for more information on project B8: "Spectroscopic Investigation of the Switching of Azobenzene-based Monolayers on Gold and SiO2" |
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Kiel, 02 March 2011: New Cluster of Excellence "Materials for Life" takes a step forward |
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The joint committee for the Excellence Initiative has invited Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (CAU) to submit a full application for the planned new Kiel Cluster of Excellence "Materials for Life (M4L)". M4L's mission is to explore new intelligent materials exhibiting complex multiple sensing and actuating properties towards medial applications. Materials scientists, physicists, chemists and medical researchers from CAU, the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology (ISIT) and the Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Coastal Research Geesthacht (HZG) join forces in a comprehensive multidisciplinary research thrust following novel bottom-up and top-down strategies. Molecular structure, interactions and dynamics and supramolecular mechanisms at biomolecule/materials interfaces form an essential research focus in the M4L Cluster, where they are explored via advanced experimentation and first-principles theory in Research Area A1 (Prof. Dr. R. Berndt and Prof. Dr. F. Temps, Principal Investigators). |
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Kiel, 16 December 2010: Claudia Sievers and Uta Corinna Stange reveive B.Sc. Prize, Meike Becker receives Otto Diels Diploma PrizeThis years Christmas Colloquium of the Kiel Division of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) saw a premiere: The first bachelor degrees in the chemistry department at CAU were celebrated with prizes going to the five best graduates. Among the winners were two students, who did their thesis work in our research group: Claudia Sievers and Uta Corinna Stange. Claudia synthesized and characterized two new multi-chromophore azobenzene compounds which allowed her to gain insight into the mutual interactions between two or more azobenzene chromophores in a molecule by charge-transfer or exciton coupling. Uta on the other hand prepared self-assembled azobenzene-thiol monolayers on gold (111) and measured their IRRAS and IR/VIS SFG spectra. Both projects open new doors for our research in the frame of SFB 677 "Function by Switching". At the same time, Meike Becker won the Otto Diels diploma prize for one of two outstanding diploma degrees of the year 2010. Meike measured pCO2 and the 13CO2/12CO2 isotope ratios using cavity ring spectroscopy on a trip aboard RV Polarstern between Punta Arenas (Chile) and Bremerhaven. Her thesis work, which was funded by the Excellence Cluster "The Future Ocean", was supervised jointly by Gernot Friedrichs and Arne Körtzinger of IFM Geomar. Congratulations to your graduations
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Kiel, 13 - 16 September 2010: Third Bi-Annual Kiel Symposium on "The Future Ocean" |
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| 250 scientist from 18 countries gathered in Kiel this week for the "Third Bi-Annual Kiel Symposium on The Future Ocean" to discuss a broad range of interdisciplinary marine topics. Plenary lectures by Michael Grunze (University of Heidelberg) on "Chemical and Physical Cues in Marine Fouling" and by Heather C. Allen (Ohio State University) on "Molecular Organization at the Ocean Surface: Ions, Water, and the Microlayer" highlighted the ubiquitous roles played by Physical Chemistry in the Marine Environment. The accompanying mini-symposium on "Chemistry at Marine Interfaces" organized by G. Friedrichs, R. von Glasow, F. Temps, and D. Wallace featured four additional special sessions with invited and contributed talks on "Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling", "Surface Films", "Heterogeneous Processes", and "Air-Sea Gas Exchange" as well as a poster session. |  Copyright: The Future Ocean |
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A big "Thank
You" goes to
all speakers, poster presenters, and participants, who came from
countries as far away as Japan to report on their
most recent work. Your presentations and your contributions
to
the lively discussion made this Symposium a great joy and success!
Special thanks to Michael Grunze and to Heather
Allen, who
did a great job in explaining their research to an
interdisciplinary audiance. And many thanks also to Barbara D'Anna,
Franz Geiger, Martina Roeselova, Reinhard Zellner, Hartmut Herrmann,
and Roland von Glasow for their excellent feature talks. We
really enjoyed having you all in
Kiel for a great meeting and hope to see you all again soon, in
Kiel or elsewhere.
Click
on the above image for a larger version of the workshop photograph
(sorry, several people were too busy
discussing the last talks and are therefore missing).
You can also download the programme of the mini-symposium
"Chemistry at
Marine Interfaces" by clicking here.
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Kiel, 11 August 2010: Background Information on the Oil Accident in the Gulf of Mexico |
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The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon platform on 22 April 2010 caused the second-largest man-made oil pollution of the sea and the surrounding shores ever. 780 Million Liters of crude oil flowed into the Gulf waters, where they caused severe damage to the unique ecosystems along the Louisiana coastline, in the Mississippi delta, and on the shores of the adjacent states. The estimation of the ecological and economic consequences of the accident is highly complex and poses many challenging questions. Geologists, chemists, oceanographers, biologists, lawyers, and economists of the Kiel Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean" ("Der Ozean der Zukunft") share their insights into the problems involved with the stopping of the leak, the consequences of the pollution, and the future research needs in a 40 page background paper. Das Papier - in Deutsch - kann hier heruntergeladen werden. |
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Bordesholm, 11 July 2010: Christiana Albertina University commemorates its roots at the Bordesholm monastery with annual Faculty Prize Ceremony |
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Every year on the second Sunday in July, Christiana Albertina University celebrates her roots in Bordesholm, where the university was founded in 1665. During the - by now traditional - ceremony at the monastery church, the president of CAU presents the coveted Faculty Prizes for the best Ph.D. theses of the preceding academic year. This year, CAU president Professor Fouquet presented one of the two prizes of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences to former work group member Dr. Nina K. Schwalb. Nina earned her Ph.D. degree in 2009 with a thesis entitled "Ultrafast Electronic Deactivation Dynamics in DNA Model Systems by Femtosecond UV Fluorescence Spectroscopy". Click
here for the CAU press release
with further information.
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Conference Presentations 2010: List of invited talks, contributed talks, and posters at national and international conferences in 2010:
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Kiel, 17 December 2009: Otto Diels-Prize for best Ph.D. Theses 2009 to Dr. Claudia Bornholdt and Dr. Nina K. Schwalb |
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The Otto Diels-Prize of the Chemistry Department of Christian Albrechts University Kiel for the best Ph.D. Thesis in the academic year 2008/09 has been awarded to Dr. Nina K. Schwalb and to Dr. Claudia Bornholdt. Nina's thesis work on the "Ultrafast Electronic Deactivation Dynamics in DNA Model Systems by Femtosecond UV Fluorescence Spectroscopy" established a research field in our group, which has now developed into one of our main tasks. Claudia did her Ph.D. work on "Ligand-Driven Light-Induced Spin Cross-Over in Single Molecules at Room Temperature" in Rainer Herges' group. Both were honored for their "truly outstanding original contributions to the forefront of chemical sciences". The prizes were presented to Nina and Claudia at the traditional Christmas Colloquium of the Kiel Division of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) by Prof. Thisbe K. Lindhorst. At the same meeting, the BASF prizes for the best diplomas were awarded to Dipl.-Chem. Michelle Fernandez-Bieber and to Dipl.-Chem. Mark Feyand, who have been working in the groups of Prof. Lindhorst and Prof. Stock. In addition, four young undergraduate students received pre-diploma prizes. The afternoon's programme was made complete by four talks (see right) and the traditional "Glühwein break". |
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30 November 2009: Through the Strait of Magellan to Punta Arenas (Chile): Premiere for the Institute of Physical Chemistry on RV "Polarstern" |
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A Cavity Ringdown (CRD) Spectrometer developed by Prof. Gernot Friedrichs and his group in the Institute of Physical Chemistry of CAU made its first trip aboard RV "Polarstern" from Bremerhaven through the Strait of Magellan to Punta Arenas in Chile. The new spectrometer has been tested in collaboration with CONTROS Systems & Solutions GmbH and Prof. Arne Körtzinger of IFM-GEOMAR. It enables marine scientists to make highly precise, on-site CO2 isotope measurements to obtain answers, as to which physical, chemical, and biological processes determine the fate of dissolved CO2 in the Earth's oceans. The development has been funded by the Kiel Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean". Click here for the press release by CAU and The Future Ocean.Click here to visit Prof. Friedrichs web site. |
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Spectrometer aboard RV "Polarstern".
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uni-live-gespräche 2009:The first issue of a new CAU publication series, "uni-live-gespräche", sheds light on the current research-and-education conditions at CAU Kiel. Professors and students from eight faculties share their views on the questions that are moving them. Read their opinions on the new Bachelor/Master study courses, tuition ("Studiengebühren"), and the consequences of the desastrous underfunding of our university. |
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Click here to read the interviews with Prof. Temps and Chemistry & Economics student Carmen Schüler.
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Kieler Nachrichten, 17 June 2009: "Chemie ist eine ungeheuer faszinierende Wissenschaft"Kiel University offers more than 60 courses of studies. Prof. Temps, student advisor for chemistry students, offers his insights into why Chemistry is a tremendously fascinating subject opening a vast number of high potential fields in an interview with Martin Geist in the June 17, 2009 issue of Kieler Nachrichten.Read the article in Kieler Nachrichten (in German) |
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Conference Presentations 2009: List of invited talks, contributed talks,
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| SOLAS Open Science Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 16 - 19 November 2009 | |
| Symposium on Light-Regulation in Chemistry and Biology, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, 9 - 10 November 2009 | |
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Molecular Transformations and Dynamics in
Complex
Molecular Environments, International Bunsen Discussion
Meeting,
Leipzig, 27 - 30 September 2009
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| 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, 16 - 20 August 2009 | |
| Femtochemistry
IX,
Beijing, China, 8 - 13 August 2009 |
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| XXIV
International Conference on Photochemistry, Toledo, Spain, 19
- 24
July 2009 |
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| 30th
International Symposium on Free Radicals, Savonlinna,
Finland, 25 -
30 July 2009 |
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| Joint Conference of the SFB's 658 and 677: "Molecular Switches: Elementary Processes and Applications", Salzau Conference Center, 27 - 29 May 2009 | |
| 108th Bunsentagung 2009, Cologne, 21 - 23 May 2009 | |
| 73rd Spring Meeting of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Hamburg, 02 - 06 March 2009 |
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Glasgow, 30-31 October 2008: Poster prize at International Workshop on Ultrafast Chemical Physics goes to Nina SchwalbNina K.
Schwalb won a
poster prize at the International
Workshop in Chemical Physics in Glasgow with her poster on The Relevance of
Hydrogen-Bonding Dynamics
in Electronically Excited DNA.
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Ph.D. student Ron Siewertsen and Postdoc Falk Renth win poster prize at GDCh's 21st Conference on PhotochemistryCongratulations
to Ron
Siewertsen and Falk
Renth, who won the poster prize at
this year's 21st
Conference on Photochemistry of the GDCh Division of
Photochemistry
with their presentation on a Time-Resolved
Transient Absorption Study of the Ultrafast Dynamics of the Competing
(E) - (C) and (E) - (Z) Photoisomerization of a Photochromic Furyl
Fulgide.
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Conference Presentations 2008:
In 2008, we have presented invited talks, contributed
talks,
and posters at the following conferences:
| International Workshop on Ultrafast Chemical Physics, Glasgow, UK, 30 - 31 Ocober 2008 | |
| Chemical Kinetics of Complex Systems, Bad Herrenalb, 30 - 31 October 2008 | |
| 21st Conference on Photochemistry, GDCh Photochemistry Division, Bielefeld, 6 - 8 October 2008 | |
| The 20th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics, Manchester, UK, 20 - 25 July 2008 | |
| Ultrafast Phenomena XVI, Stresa, Italy, 9 - 13 June 2008 | |
| 107th Bunsentagung 2008, Saarbrücken, 1 - 3 May 2008 | |
| GDCh-JCF Young Scientists Conference on Chemistry, Rostock, 27 - 29 March 2008 | |
| Spring Meeting of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Darmstadt, 10 - 14 March 2008 |
Bordesholm, 6 July 2008:
Familie Schindler Förderpreis for outstanding Ph.D. thesis to Dr. Harald Studzinski
The 2008 Familie Schindler Förderpreis for
their
outstanding Ph.D. theses in Physical Chemistry has been presented to
Dr. Angela Gaber and to Dr. Harald Studzinski. Harald
obtained
his Ph.D. in the group of Prof. Temps in 2007 with a thesis on "Ultrafast
Radiationless
Dynamics of Selected Electronically Excited Aromatic Molecules by
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Mass Spectrometry and Photoelectron Imaging".
He studied the distinctive electronic relaxation dynamics in hexa- and
pentafluorobenzene and in pyrrole and a series of methyl-substituted
pyrroles using a combination of novel time-resolved techniques. His
work has implications for understanding the photochemistry and
photophysics of DNA, the "molecule of life", and is of fundamental
importance for developing organic molecule based solar cells helping to
sustain our future energy needs. Angela received her Ph.D. in
2007 in the group of Prof. Grotemeyer. Both have since
accepted
top level R&D positions at leading industrial companies.
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Kiel, 13 December 2007: Otto Diels Prize for Chemistry Diploma 2007
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Kiel, Auditorium Maximum at CAU, 23 November 2007:
November 23: "The 2007
Night of the
Profs"
Discover science - at a big CAU science party - in five
lecture theatres non-stop from 8 pm to 2 am.
The 2007 Night of the Profs was a big success. The lecture halls were packed until 2 am. An audience of about two hundred, among them many high school students, university students from chemistry and different other fields, young and old scientists, and interested citizens, gathered to listen to Prof. Temps' talk on "How our DNA protects itself from UV Radiation Damage - New Insights on Hydrogen Bonds" in lecture theatre A from 1 - 2 am. Many listeners, who did not arrive early, stood in the back of the lecture hall to learn about research results on the photophysics and photochemistry of the arguably most important molecules of life, the DNA and its building blocks.
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Oxford, 22-27 July 2007, and Boston, 19-23 August 2007: Ph.D. student Nina Schwalb wins poster prizes at international conferencesNina Schwalb
returned
with extra luggage from two
international conferences. She received the PCCP poster prize
at
the International
Conference on Femtochemistry and Femtobiology 8 in Oxford and
she won the PHYS division poster prize at the 234th National Meeting of
the American
Chemical Society
in
Boston. The ACS meeting featured over 9 500 scientific papers
and
more
than 15 000
registrants.
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Kiel, 31 July 2007: Dr. Gernot Friedrichs promoted to Junior ProfessorGernot Friedrichs has been
promoted to Junior
Professor to head the Junior Research Group A6 - Changing Chemistry of the Ocean Surface
in
the CAU Excellence Cluster The
Future
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Bordesholm, 8 July 2007:
Dr. Jens Riedel receives 2007 Familie Schindler Förderpreis for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis in Physical Chemistry
Jens obtained his Ph.D. in 2006 with a thesis on "Investigations
of
Photo-Induced Molecular Dissociation Processes by Photofragment Imaging
Spectroscopy", in which he applied photofragment imaging to a
variety of exciting reactions, including the photo-induced N-H/N-D
predissociaton processes of pyrrole and pyrrole-d1.
He also
developed a new Doppler-free variant for H-atom imaging. He
has
since moved as post-doc with Prof. Kopin Liu to the Institute
of
Atomic and Molecular Sciences of the Academia Sinica in
Taipeh,
Taiwan, which under the leadership of 1986 Nobel Laureate Prof. Yuan T.
Lee has grown into a world-renowned institute.
Kiel, 1 July 2007:
Tiny Switches with Huge Effects. New SFB 677 in Kiel
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In the new Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB 677 "Function by Switching" at Kiel, work groups from the Chemistry, Material Science, and Physics Departments at CAU Kiel develop tiny molecular switches driven by light to realize new functions and functional materials. The SFB, inaugurated July 1 2007, is chaired by Prof. Rainer Herges of the Otto Diels Institute of Organic Chemistry. We participate with a collaborative project led by Prof. Bernd Hartke, Dr. Falk Renth, and Prof. Temps, in which we explore the dynamics of photochromic molecular switches in solution and more complex molecular environments using femtosecond spectroscopy and by quantum chemical calculations (SFB project A1). See more information on SFB 677 and more on subproject A1 (Hartke, Renth, Temps). |
Neuer Sonderforschungsbereich für Kieler Uni
DFG Press Release, 23 May 2007:
DFG bewilligt elf neue Sonderforschungsbereiche
26 May 2007, Kieler Nachrichten (unizeit #42):
Chemistry at the Ocean Surface
Chemical processes at the ocean surface are unknowns in current climate models. Physical chemists in the excellence cluster The Future Ocean in Kiel work to unravel the facts.
Download pdf (in German)Radio NDR 1 Interview:
Chemistry at the Ocean-Atmosphere Interface
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Kiel, 14 December 2006: Otto Diels Prize for Chemistry Diplomas 2006
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Physical Chemistry in the Excellence Cluster The Future Ocean (1 November 2006): Changing Chemistry at the Ocean Surface |
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Chemical processes at the ocean surface are unknowns in current climate models. Physical chemists in the Excellence Cluster "The Future Ocean" in Kiel working in research area A6 unravel the facts (Prof. Dr. D. Wallace and Prof. Dr. F. Temps, Principal Investigators; Prof. Dr. G. Friedrichs, JRG Leader). |
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Kiel, 23 September 2006: Open Door at the Chemistry Department of Kiel UniversitySee pdf flyer (in German), and more photos here. |
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Bordesholm, 8 July 2005:
Dr. Thomas Pancur receives Familie Schindler Förderpreis for outstanding Ph.D. thesis
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Thomas obtained his Ph.D. at the end of 2004 with a thesis on "Investigations of the Isomerization Dynamics of Azobenzenes and the Radiationless Deactivation of Nucleobases by Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy". His work was instrumental for the birth of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 677 "Function by Switching" in 2007. He also layed foundations for our on-going research on the photophysics and photochemistry of DNA bulding blocks. |
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Sophienhof Kiel, 14 - 17 May 2003: Kieler Chemiemeile zum Jahr der Chemie 2003Download PowerPoint presentation (29 MB) and press echos. Download booklet "Chemistry in Kiel" (in German and English). |
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May 2003,
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft:Bunsentagung 2003 in KielDownload complete programme and photos. Download booklet "Chemistry in Kiel" (in German and English). |
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11 January 2003, Kieler Nachrichten (unizeit #13):
How
life
defends itself against UV light
Which strategies does nature exploit to protect the genomic information encoded in the DNA from photodamage by UV radiation - a major cause of mutations? Using sophisticated methods based on ultrafast spectroscopy, we have uncovered clever new defense mechanisms developed by evolution to protect the nucleic acid bases, which form the letters of our genetic code, from photochemical destruction.
Kiel, December 2002:
2002 BASF prize for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis to
Dipl.-Chem. Dr. Attila Kuczmann
22 March 2002, Kieler Nachrichten:
Inauguration
of Kiel
Femtochemistry Laboratory
Mehr Informationen in der Pressemitteilung des Instituts.
Kiel, December 2001:
Otto-Diels-Prize of the Chemistry Department at Kiel 2001 goes to Dipl.-Chem. Thomas Pancur
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9 November 2001, Kieler
Nachrichten: Zeichen dafür, dass wir noch konkurrenzfähig sindRight: Prof. Temps together with Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow Dr. Jie Wei aligning laser beams for a triple resonance experiment. |
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Kiel, 21 September 2000:
Bunsentagung 2003 nach Kiel vergeben
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29 April 2000, Kieler Nachrichten: Tag der Offenen Tür der CAU am 7. Mai 2000 |
4 December 1999, Kieler Nachrichten:
