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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

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

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

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

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

April 2019

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

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

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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