Ellen Backus and Marie-Pierre Gaigeot from the Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne in France have been awarded a joint ANR-DFG grant. The title of the grant is "Wasserdynamik an Grenzflächen zwischen Luft und ionischen Lösungen: Synergie zwischen SFG-Experimenten und DFTMD-Simulationen"
27th - 30th October 2014
Ruth Livingstone attends the WE-Heraeus seminar "Exploring Solvation Science" in Bad Honnef, and gives a "Hot-Topics" talk
18th August 2014
Simon Schmitt joins the group as a PhD student to study water splitting on TiO2 surfaces.
8th August 2014
Saman Hosseinpour won a poster prise at the Gordon Research Conference for Vibrational Spectroscopy with a poster entitled "In-Situ Monitoring of Ultra-Slow Oxidation of Copper in Atmospheric Pressure"
3rd-8th August 2014
Ellen, Ruth, Saman and Alejandra all attend the Grodon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectrascopy in Biddeford, Maine. Ellen gives an invited talk and the others present posters.
2nd-3rd August 2014
Saman, Ruth and Alejandra all attend the Grodon Research Seminar on Vibrational Spectrascopy in Biddeford, Maine. Saman gives an invited talk and the others present posters.
June 2014
Ellen Backus, Johannes Hunger, Yuki Nagata and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on Aqueous Heterogeneity at the Air/Water Interface Revealed by 2D-HD-SFG Spectroscopy published in Angewandte Chemie.
June 2014
Ellen Backus, Johannes Hunger, Sapun Parekh and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper with Dan Lis on Liquid flow along a solid surface reversibly alters interfacial chemistry published in Science.
June 2014
Ellen Backus and Mischa Bonn have a collaborative paper on Extreme surface propensity of halide ions in water published in Nature Communications.
April 2014
Ellen Backus has been appointed to the Minerva Program by the Max Planck Society (MPS) as of April 1, 2014.
May 2014
Dr. Pratik Sen, Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, arrives for a two month collaberative visit.
30th March - 4th April 2014
The group attend the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society) Spring Meeting in Dresden, where Ruth gives a talk and Alejandra and Maria present postors.
March 2014
Ellen Backus is appointed as a junior faculty member of the MPGC. The MPGC is a virtual department across two Max Planck Institutes and four faculties of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.
6th March 2014
Welcome to Saman Hosseinpour who joins the group as a postdoc to study water splitting on TiO2.
17th January 2014
Cho-Shuen Hsieh Graduates in Amsterdam with a PhD entitled: Ultrafast dynamics of interfacial water
3rd January 2014
Zhen Zhang leaves the group to continue her career in China
