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Prof. Olga Smirnova from the Max Born Institute, Berlin, and Dr. Benedetta Flebus, Assistant Professor at Boston College, USA, are awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Program 2022 of the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI). The Program includes an extended research stay at the Cluster of Excellence...

A sophisticated experiment provides new insights into the ultrafast reaction of biomolecules when they are hit by energetic ultraviolet light in their natural environment. The team of Jochen Küpper, physics professor at Universität Hamburg and DESY scientist, recorded the light-induced processes taking place in a small...