Dr. Jascha Alexander Lau

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsSpectroscopy,Physical Chemistry at Surfaces
Keywordsmolecular dynamics, fluorescence spectroscopy, reaction intermediates, photoelectron spectroscopy
Honours and awards

2022: Otto Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society

2022: Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBerlin
InstitutionFritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. mult. Daniel NeumarkDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2021

Programme(s)

2021Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Martin DeWitt, Dongzheng Yang, Jascha A. Lau, Korina Vlahos, Hua Guo, Daniel M. Neumark: Exploring Vinylidene/Acetylene Isomerization by Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Vibrationally Excited Vinylidene Anions. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 129, 2025, 3682–3695
2025Jascha A. Lau, Martin DeWitt, Peter R. Franke, John F. Stanton and Daniel M. Neumark: High-Resolution Photoelectron Spectroscopy of NO3− Vibrationally Excited Along Its ν3 Mode. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 129, 2025, 1634-1647
2023Jascha A. Lau, Martin DeWitt, Mark A. Boyer, Mark C. Babin, Tonia Solomis, Max Grellmann, Knut R. Asmis, Anne B. McCoy and Daniel M. Neumark: High-Resolution Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Vibrationally Excited Vinoxide Anions. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 127, 2023, 3133-3147
2023Jascha A. Lau, Varun B. Verma, Dirk Schwarzer and Alec M. Wodtke: Superconducting single-photon detectors in the mid-infrared for physical chemistry and spectroscopy. In: Chemical Society Reviews, 52, 2023, 921-941
2022Martin DeWitt, Mark C. Babin, Jascha A. Lau, Tonia Solomis and Daniel M. Neumark: High Resolution Photoelectron Spectroscopy of the Acetyl Anion. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 126, 2022, 7962−7970
2022Mark C. Babin, Martin DeWitt, Jascha A. Lau, Marissa L. Weichman, Jongjin B. Kim, Lan Cheng and Daniel M. Neumark: Photoelectron spectroscopy of cryogenically cooled NiO2- via slow photoelectron velocity-map imaging. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24, 2022, 17496-17503
2021Mark C. Babin, Martin DeWitt, Jascha A. Lau, Marissa L. Weichman, Jongjin B. Kim, Hongwei Song, Hua Guo and Daniel M. Neumark: Observation of resonances in the transition state region of the F + NH3 reaction using anion photoelectron spectroscopy. In: Nature Chemistry, 15, 2021, 194-199