Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner
Head of Group
Accelerator Physics
Address
University of Hamburg
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Fachbereich Physik
Institute of Experimental Physics
Luruper Chaussee 149
22761 Hamburg
Office
Building 99
Room: O1.061
Contact
Tel: +49 40 8998-6677
Fax: +49 40 8994-6677
- Full Professor (W3) University of Hamburg (UHH) and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL)
- Head of Accelerator Physics Group (Click here to go to the research group pages)
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Name: Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner
Date of Birth: 10.04.1973
Place of Birth: Munich, Germany
Academic education with degree
- 1994–2000 Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Diplom; Supervisor: Prof Dr. F. Bell
Scientific degrees
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2003 Promotion in Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. F. Bell
Professional background since graduation
- since 2011 Professor (W3) – Physics department, Universität Hamburg and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science/Germany
- 2008–2011 Professor (W2, tenure track) – Physics department, Universität München/Germany
- since 2007 Visiting Scientist – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/USA
- 2007–2008 postdoctoral researcher, group of Prof. Dr. F. Krausz – Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics/Germany
- 2005–2007 scientific assistant to Prof. Dr. D. Habs – Physics department, Universität München/Germany
Other
Activities, positions:
- since 2019 Principial Investigator, Cluster of Excellence „Quantum Universe“, Universität Hamburg/Germany
- since 2019 Ombudsperson, Universität Hamburg/Germany
- since 2018 Member of Academic Senate, Universität Hamburg/Germany
- 2014–2019 Member of Faculty Council, Universität Hamburg/Germany
- 2013–2016 Managing Director of the Institute of Experimental Physics, Universität Hamburg/Germany
- 2013–2014 Deputy Scientific Director, „University-College“, Universität Hamburg/Germany
- since 2011 Guest professor Physics department, Universität München/Germany
- 2011–2017 Member of International Scientific Advisory Committee, ELI-Research Center, Prague/CZ
- 2010–2011 Member of Board of the Cluster of Excellence „Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics” (MAP)
Awards, honors:
- 2023 Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation 2022/23 (The Society of Friends of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (FHZB))
- 2013–2019 various lecture prizes, e.g. in 2019 for „Biomedical Physics I“, Physics department, Universität Hamburg/Germany
- 2004–2005 Scholarship for independent postdoc position, German Research Foundation (DFG)/Germany
- 2003 Doctorate in Physics with „summa cum laude”
- 2000 Diploma in Physics „with distinction“
Most important publications (selected)
- Staufer T, Körnig C, Liu B, Liu Y, Lanzloth C, Schmutzler O, Bedke T, Machicote A, Parak W J, Feliu N, Bosurgi L, Huber S, Grüner F
Enabling X-ray fluorescence imaging for in vivo immune cell tracking. Scientific Reports 13, 11505, 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38536-5. Open access. World-wide first in-vivo immune cell tracking measured by XFI. - Grüner, F., Blumendorf, F., Schmutzler, O., Staufer, T., Bradbury, M., Wiesner, U., Rosentreter, T., Loers, G., Lutz, D., Richter, B., Fischer, M., Schulz, F., Steiner, S., Warmer, M., Burkhardt, A., Meents, A., Kupinski, M., Hoeschen, C. Localising functionalised gold-nanoparticles in murine spinal cords by X- ray fluorescence imaging and background-reduction through spatial filtering for human-sized objects, Scientific Reports, Volume 8, Issue 1, Article number 16561
- M. Gross, J. Engel J. Good, H. Huck, I. Isaev, G. Koss, M. Krasilnikov, O. Lishilin, G. Loisch,Y. Renier, T. Rublack, F. Stephan, R. Brinkmann, A. Martinez de la Ossa, J. Osterhoff, D. Malyutin, D. Richter, T. Mehrling, M. Khojoyan, C. B. Schroeder, and F. Grüner, Observation of the Self-Modulation Instability via Time-Resolved Measurements, Phys. Rev. Letts. 120, 144802 (2018), pp. 1-5
- W. Helml, A. R. Maier, W. Schweinberger, I. Grguras, P. Radcliffe, G. Doumy, C. Roedig, J. Gagnon, M. Messerschmidt, S. Schorb, C. Bostedt, F. Grüner, L. F. DiMauro, D. Cubaynes, J. D. Bozek, Th. Tschentscher, J. T. Costello, M. Meyer, R. Coffee, S. Düsterer, A. L. Cavalieri, and R. Kienberger, Measuring the temporal structure of few-femtosecond free-electron laser X-ray pulses directly in the time domain, Nature Photonics 8, 950–957 (2014)
- Müller BH1, Hoeschen C, Grüner F, Arkadiev VA, Johnson TR., Molecular imaging based on x-ray fluorescent high-Z tracers, Phys Med Biol. 2013, 58(22), 8063-76
- Schulz F1, Lutz D, Rusche N, Bastús NG, Stieben M, Höltig M, Grüner F, Weller H, Schachner M, Vossmeyer T, Loers G., Gold nanoparticles functionalized with a fragment of the neural cell adhesion molecule L1 stimulate L1-mediated functions, Nanoscale. 2013, 5(21), 10605-17
- A. R. Maier, A. Meseck, S. Reiche, C. B. Schroeder, T. Seggebrock, and F. Grüner, Demonstration Scheme for a Laser-Plasma-Driven Free-Electron Laser, Phys. Rev. X 2, 031019, 2012
- C. B. Schroeder, C. Benedetti, E. Esarey, F. J. Grüner, and W. P. Leemans, Growth and Phase Velocity of Self-Modulated Beam-Driven Plasma Waves, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 145002 (2011)
- Popp, J. Vieira, J. Osterhoff, Zs. Major, R. Hörlein, M. Fuchs, R. Weingartner, T. P. Rowlands-Rees, M. Marti, R. A. Fonseca, S. F. Martins, L. O. Silva, S. M. Hooker, F. Krausz, F. Grüner, and S. Karsch, All-Optical Steering of Laser-Wakefield-Accelerated Electron Beams, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 215001 (2010)
- M. Fuchs, R. Weingartner, A. Popp, Zs. Major, S. Becker, J. Osterhoff, I. Cortrie, B. Zeitler, R. Hörlein, G. D. Tsakiris, U. Schramm, T. P. Rowlands-Rees, S. M. Hooker, D. Habs, F. Krausz, S. Karsch and F. Grüner, Laser-driven soft-X-ray undulator source, Nature Physics 5, 826-829 (2009)
- J. Osterhoff, A. Popp, Zs. Major, B. Marx, T. P. Rowlands-Rees, M. Fuchs, M. Geissler, R. Hörlein, B. Hidding, S. Becker, E. A. Peralta, U. Schramm, F. Grüner, D. Habs, F. Krausz, S. M. Hooker, S. Karsch: Generation of Stable, Low-Divergence Electron Beams by Laser-Wakefield Acceleration in a Steady-State-Flow Gas Cell. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085002 (2008) pp. 1-4
Co-autorship of major third party funding proposals
- ARD program (Helmholtz)
- MAP Cluster of Excellence
- TransRegio TR 18 (DFG)
- Extreme Light Infrastracture ELI (EU)
- Founding PI of Cluster of Excellence „Quantum Universe“