Our group contributed three oral presentations. Paul and Ilia shared early results from their PhD projects, and Simona contributed simulations for our exciting collaboration with the Kasra Amini group at MBI Berlin. more

Daniel gave an invited lecture on the group’s latest results about spectroscopy and diffraction at conical intersections. more

Daniel gave an educational lecture at MPIP entitled “Introduction to Electronic Structure of Molecules”. Introducing the basic concepts of quantum chemistry to a broad graduate audience, this graduate education efforts at the institute. more

Our proposal for organizing a CECAM flagship school has been selected from a broad international competition. Yair Litman, Franco Bonafé and Daniel are proud to announce SpectroDynamics 2026: Computational Spectroscopy across the Electromagnetic Spectrum. In addition to the ~20k € from CECAM, we secured (and highly appreciate!) 7500 € from the psi-k network and 2000 € from the Journal of Chemical Physics. more

In this work, we report two breakthroughs. First, unstable vibronic coherences generated in molecules can persist much longer than expected - by being partially transferred to an atom! Second, we developed a novel four-wave-mixing spectroscopy technique that can directly probe the real and imaginary part of the created coherence. See also our the social media highlight by our institute! more

Daniel is back from a 7-month parental leave. A big, heartfealt thanks to all group members for their patience, understanding and extra efforts during this time.

Vesna contributed a poster on her work about X-ray spectroscopy of conical intersections. more

Daniel gave an invited lecture on the group’s latest results about spectroscopy and diffraction at conical intersections. more

Daniel gave an invited lecture at the University of Mainz’s “Physik am Samstag” (Physics on Saturdays) series. The talk was titled “Why God plays dice but computer chemistry still works” and aimed to spark the interest of high school students for natural science, and quantum mechanics in particular.

Daniel was invited to the Les Houches School of Physics, located in the beautiful French Alps close to Mont Blanc. In addition to highlighting the group’s latest research, Daniel gave two educational lectures entitled “Computational time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy of non-adiabatic molecular dynamics”. As a bonus, Daniel’s wife and two kids joined, the latter much to the entertainment of the school participants. more