Nominator's project description
| Professor Majed Chergui from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Professor Majed Chergui is one of the leading authorities in ultrafast structure research on condensed matter. In his work, he combines laser-based experimental methods with the use of accelerator sources of x-rays to map structure changes on atomic length and time scales and to observe chemical transformations in real-time. He has pioneered femtosecond x-ray absorption studies. In Germany, he will study metal-based molecular complexes by femtosecond x-ray powder diffraction and macromolecular systems in the liquid phase by soft x-ray spectroscopy. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2012 | Majed Chergui: Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Biological Systems. In: Edward H. Egelman, Comprehensive Biophysics, Volume 1, Biophysical Techniques for Structural Characterization of Macromolecules. Academic Press, 2012. 398-424 |
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| 2010 | Emad F. Aziz, M. Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Kathrin M. Lange, Sébastien Bonhommeau
and Majed Chergui: Charge transfer to solvent identified using dark
channel fluorescence-yield L-edge spectroscopy. In: Nature Chemistry, 2010, 853-857 |
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| 2010 | Nora Bergmann, Sébastien Bonhommeau, Kathrin M. Lange, Stefanie M. Greil,
Stefan Eisebitt, Frank de Groot, Majed Chergui and Emad F. Aziz: On the enzymatic activity of catalase: an iron L-edge X-ray absorption study of the active centre. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2010, 4827-4832 |
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