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2024 HOT PCCP Article

Publication by AKs Fischer and Röhr has been selected as 2024 HOT PCCP article

In the publication Impact of isoelectronic substitution on the excited state processes in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a joint experimental and theoretical study of 4a,8a-azaboranaphthalene: a joint experimental and theoretical study of 4a,8a-azaboranaphthalene, published in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, the authors investigate the dynamics of the excited state characterized by a conical intersection of an azaborannaphthalene with time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy in the gas phase accompanied by calculations.

The publication has been selected as 2024 HOT PCCP article and is freely available until the end of May 2024.

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Internship

Welcome to our new intern at the AK Fischer:

Sira Grätz

New publications

Floriane Sturm, Michael Bühler, Christoph Stapper, Johannes S. Schneider, Holger Helten, Ingo Fischer, Merle I. S. Röhr
Impact of isoelectronic substitution on the excited state processes in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a joint experimental and theoretical study of 4a,8a-azaboranaphthalene
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024,26, 7363-7370

Floriane Sturm, Luca Nils Philipp, Marco Flock, Ingo Fischer, Roland Mitric
The Electronic Structures of Azaphenanthrenes and Their Dimers
J. Phys. Chem. A 2024, 128, 7, 1250–1259

Postdoc

One of our former colleagues, Marius Gerlach, is now working as a postdoc at the FELIX Laboratory in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
We wish you all the best in your new role!

Beam time at FELIX in Nijmegen

From 08.01.-19.01.24 Lilith Wohlfart and Floriane Sturm from AK Fischer conducted pyrolysis experiments with DMCB, a four-ring isomer of benzene, using IR/UV Ion Dip spectroscopy at the FELIX laboratory in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in collaboration with beamline scientist Dr. Piero Ferrari Ramirez.

Doctoral Defense

On 25th October 2023 Marius Gerlach successfully defended his doctoral thesis with distinction on Spectroscopy of fulminic acid HCNO with VUV- and soft X-ray radiation.

Congratulations! We wish you all the best for the future!

Beamtime at ISMO in France

From 23.09-08.10.2023 Jonas Fackelmayer, Katharina Theil and Ingo Fischer visited the Institute of Molecular Sciences of Orsay (ISMO) in France to perform femtosecond time-resolved experiments. They investigated fulvenallene, 1,4-azaborine and phenanthridine. They were supported by Lionel Poisson and Lou Barreau.

WE-Heraeus-Seminar

Lilith Wohlfart participated at the 755. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Solvation Chemistry and Reactive Molecules at the physics center Bad Honnef. There she presented a poster about the photodissociation of the CH2Br-radical.

New publication

 Marius Gerlach, Dorothee Schaffner, Tobias Preitschopf, Emil Karaev, John Bozek, Fabian Holzmeier, Ingo Fischer
X-ray induced fragmentation of fulminic acid, HCNO
J. Chem. Phys. 159, 114306 (2023)

New Masterstudent

Welcome to our new masterstudent Katharina Theil.
Have a good time here at the AK Fischer!

Doctoral Defense

On 14th September 2023 Christian Matthaei successfully defended his doctoral thesis on Studying the Photodissociation of Chlorine-Containing Moleculas with Velocity Map Imaging.

Congratulations! We wish you all the best for the future!

SLS-Beamtime

From 05.09. to 10.09.23 Dorothee Schaffner and Marius Gerlach from AK Fischer were at the Paul-Scherrer-Institut in Switzerland to do pyrolysis measurements of reactive molecules. As the upgrade of the Swiss Light Source (SLS) will start at the end of this month, this was the last beamtime at the VUV beamline for now.

Internship

Welcome to our new intern at the AK Fischer:

Simon Herb

Internship

Welcome to our new intern at the AK Fischer:

Anna Fleck

Doctoral Defense

On 28th July 2023 Tobias Preitschopf successfully defended his doctoral thesis on Disentangling the Formation of PAHs in Extreme Environments by IR/UV Double Resonance Spectroscopy.

Congratulations! We wish you all the best for the future!

Schwanberglauf 2023

Former and current members of the AK Fischer took part at the Schwanberglauf 2023. After the 10.4 km run uphill they ended the evening at the wine festival in Castell. With a time of 47:09 min Jonas Fackelmayer was the fastest runner of the "Fischerman & Friends" and even finished as 37th runner in the overall statistics.

Beamtime at the SLS

From 08.07. to 12.07.23 Marius Gerlach, Dorothee Schaffner and Emil Karaev from AK Fischer were at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) to carry out pyrolysis measurements.

Graduation ceremony 2023

On 08.07.23 the graduation ceremony took place and three PhD students of the AK Fischer recieved their master diploma. Jonas Fackelmayer gave the speech for the academic course of chemistry and Dorothee Schaffner received the faculty award for the master's course in chemistry.

International Symposium on Molecular Beams 2023

From 25.06. - 30.06.23 the International Symposium on Molecular Beams 2023  took place in Rethymno/Crete. Floriane Sturm participated at the conference with a talk and a poster on the spectroscopic results of BN-9,10-naphthalene.

Beamtime at the Synchrotron Elettra

From 14.06-24.06.23 Dorothee Schaffner, Emil Karaev and Ingo Fischer worked at the Synchrotron Elettra in Trieste to investigate the tert-butyl radical with soft X-ray radiation at the GasPhase Beamline. They were supported by Robert Richter, Michele Alagia (both from the GasPhase Beamline) and Stefano Stranges.

ChemCup 2023

Finally ChemCup again! Although we were already eliminated in the preliminary round, we really had a good time celebrating after such a long time without ChemCup.

Bunsen Conference 2023 in Berlin

From 05.06. - 07.06.23 the Bunsen Conference 2023 took place in Berlin. AK Fischer took part with 6 posters. In addition, Floriane Sturm was awarded a poster prize for her poster. Floriane presented the spectroscopic results of BN-9,10-naphthalene - a BN substituted naphthalene.

New Masterstudent

Welcome to our new masterstudent Luisa Martin.
Have a good time here at the AK Fischer!

Bergkirchweih 2023

Also this year, the AK Fischer visited the Bergkirchweih in Erlangen on May 26, 2023 together with the AKs from theoretical chemistry. As always, it was a successful day this time in Erich Keller. We look forward to next year. Cheers!

New intern from India

We warmly welcome Priyanka A Paunikar from the IISER Thiruvananthapuram University India here at AK Fischer. Through the DAAD WISE program, she will be conducting a 3 month internship with us from May to July 2023. Her research topic is on photodissociation dynamics of CH2Cl2.

Beam time at Synchrotron SOLEIL

From 25.04-01.05.23 Prof. Ingo Fischer, Dorothee Schaffner, Marius Gerlach and Emil Karaev from AK Fischer visited the synchrotron SOLEIL to measure auger and valence electron spectra of isothiocyanic acid together with beamline scientist John Bozek.

New bachelorstudent

Welcome to our new bachelorstudent Oumaima Hammoudi Abbas.
Have a good time here at the AK Fischer!

New publications

Emil Karaev, Marius Gerlach, Lukas Faschingbauer, Jacqueline Ramler, Ivo Krummenacher, Crispin Lichtenberg, Patrick Hemberger, Ingo Fischer
Bonding in Low-Coordinated Organoarsenic and Organoantimony Compounds: A Threshold Photoelectron Spectroscopic Investigation
Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202300637

Marius Gerlach, Barry Mant, Tobias Preitschopf, Emil Karaev, Dennis Mayer, Heidy M. Quitián-Lara, Patrick Hemberger, John Bozek, Graham Worth, Ingo Fischer
Photoelectron spectroscopy and dissociative photoionization of fulminic acid, HCNO
J. Chem. Phys. 158, 134303 (2023)

2023 Hot PCCP article

In the publication Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of 4-(dimethylamino)benzethyne – an experimental and computational study, published in the Journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, the authors investigated the excited-state dynamics of 4-(dimethylamino)benzethyne (4-DMABE) in a combined theoretical and experimental study using surface-hopping simulations and time-resolved ionisation experiments.

The publication has been selected as 2023 HOT PCCP article and is freely available until the end of June 2023.

 

DPG (SAMOP) 2023

The DPG spring meeting of the section atoms, molecules, quantenphysic and photonic were held from the 06.03.23-10.03.23 in Hannover. Klaus Hofmann, Dorothee Schaffner and Lilith Wohlfart from the work group Fischer contributed with a talk, Lukas Faschingbauer with a poster. 

Seminar week at the Kleinwalsertal

The Fischer group went to a work group seminar from the 26.02.23-03.03.23 at the Kleinwalsertal. Also invited were PhD students and master students from the Mitric group as well as former PhD students from the Fischer group. While everyone presented their current work topics in form of interesting presentations during the morning, in the afternoon different activities like hiking or skiing brought the group together. The seminar week was made possible thanks to the Heraeus funding.

New bachelorstudent

Welcome to our new bachelorstudent Leonie Müller.
Have a good time here at the AK Fischer!

Internship

Welcome to our new intern at the AK Fischer:

Erik Csapo

Beam Time in Nijmegen

From 16.01.-27.01.23 Floriane Sturm and Tobias Preitschopf from AK Fischer were at the FELIX laboratory in Nijmegen/Netherlands. Together with beamline scientist Dr. Piero Ferrari Ramirez they studied dimers of quinoline and 1,5-Naphthyridin with IR/UV Ion Dip spectroscopy.

New publications

New publication of the AK Fischer:

Tobias Preitschopf, Floriane Sturm, Iuliia Stroganova, Alexander Lemmens, Anouk Rijs, Ingo Fischer
IR/UV Double Resonance Study of the 2-Phenylallyl Radical and its Pyrolysis Products
Chem. Eur. J.. Accepted Author Manuscript

Marius Gerlach, Emil Karaev, Dorothee Schaffner, Patrick Hemberger, Ingo Fischer
Threshold Photoelectron Spectrum of m-Benzyne
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2022, 13, 48, 11295–11299

Beam time at the SLS

From 28.11.-06.12.22 Prof. Ingo Fischer, Marius Gerlach, Emil Karaev, Dorothee Schaffner and Klaus Hofmann from AK Fischer were at the Paul-Scherrer-Insitute in Switzerland to do photolysis experiments at the Swiss Light Source (SLS).

Welcome!

Welcome to our new PhD students Dorothee Schaffner and Jonas Fackelmayer.
We wish you a good and successful time at the AK Fischer!

New PhD student

Welcome to our new PhD student Lilith Wohlfart.
We wish you a good and successful time at the AK Fischer!

 

Publication in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.

A new publication Stacking Is Favored over Hydrogen Bonding in Azaphenanthrene Dimers has been published in the Journal The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

 

 

Bunsentagung 2022

From 07.09. - 09.09.22 the Bunsen Conference 2022 took place in Gießen. The AK Fischer took part with 3 lectures and a poster. In addition, Klaus Hofmann received a poster prize for his poster. Klaus presented the Raman Optical Activity spectrometer he built himself, upcoming challenges and shows the first recorded spectra.

Internship

Welcome to our new interns at the AK Fischer:

Alexander Gerstner and Eva Krylov

Into the wild: Trip to Main-Spessart

On August 14th, 2022, AK Fischer went on a fun excursion to the family owned farm of former PhD student Engelbert Reusch.
After an adventurous canoe tour along the Saale, we had a barbecue and apple cider in the evening.

Gordon Research Conference 2022

From 07.08. - 12.08.22 the Gordon Research Conference on Frontiers in Size-Selected Cluster Research: Structure, Reactivity and Dynamics took place near Lucca/Italy. Floriane Sturm participated with a poster at the conference as well as at the previous Gordon Research Seminar on Probing the Microscopic Structures and Dynamics of Molecular and Ionic Clusters from 06.08-07-08.22.

IPTC Summer Party 2022

This year we celebrated the return of the traditional IPTC summer party. In addition to the delicious barbecue, there was also a lighthearted competition between the different research groups. In disciplines such as “laser minigolf”, the participants could prove their skills. We thank the organizers for a great event.

Schwanberglauf 2022

Also this year, the AK Fischer traditionally took part on 07/15/2022 in the Schwanberg run after a 2-year corona break. Former and current employees conquered the 10.4 km long mountain run, then ended the evening in a relaxed atmosphere at the Castell wine festival.

New Bachelorstudent

A warm welcome to our new bachelorstudent Lea Wiehl.
We wish you a good and successful time at the AK Fischer!

Welcome!

Corona caused a delay of two years, but finally we now welcome our visiting professor from India Dr. Animesh Kumar Ojha.
He will be working with us from July to September on light harvesting materials: Methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3, CH3NH3PbI3) is most promising candidate for fabrication of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with PCE of 25.7 %. However, the main hurdle in commercialization of PSCs is the instability of MAPbI3 in ambient conditions. Therefore, we planned to investigate the effect of CoCl2 and NiCl2 doping on the stability of MAPbI3 in ambient environment using spectroscopic measurements.

36th International Symposium on Free Radicals

From 03.07. - 08.07.22 the Free Radical Conference took place in Stockholm. Two of our scientific employees took part with their posters.

The 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Marius Gerlach participated at the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting from 26.06 - 01.07.22 as a Young Scientist.

2022 HOT PCCP Article

Publication of AK Fischer selected as 2022 HOT PCCP Article

In the publication Auger electron spectroscopy of fulminic acid, HCNO: an experimental and theoretical study, published in the Journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, the authors use the auger spectroscopy to examine fulminic acid.

The publication has been selected as 2022 HOT PCCP article and is freely available until the end of September 2022.

Beam time at Synchrotron SOLEIL

From 26.04. - 02.05.22 Prof. Dr. Ingo Fischer, Marius Gerlach, Emil Karaev, Tobias Preitschopf and Dorothee Schaffner from AK Fischer were at the Synchrotron SOLEIL near Paris to do experiments with synchrotron radiation.

Beam time at the SLS

From 30.03. - 08.04.22 Prof. Ingo Fischer, Marius Gerlach, Emil Karaev and Dorothee Schaffner from AK Fischer were at the Paul-Scherrer-Insitute in Switzerland to do experiments at the Swiss Light Source (SLS).

Welcome to AK Fischer

New in the team since the beginning of the year:

Emil Karaev and Klaus Hofmann as PhD students

Jonas Fackelmayer, Christoph Stapper and Dorothee Schaffner are working on their master thesis.

We wish you a good and successful time at the AK Fischer!

2022 HOT PCCP Article

Publication of AK Fischer selected as 2022 HOT PCCP Article

In the publication The gas-phase infrared spectra of the 2-methylallyl radical and its high-temperature reaction products, published on 14.03.2022 in the Journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, the authors use IR/UV Ion-Dip-Spectroscopy to examine the radical.

The publication has been selected as 2022 HOT PCCP article and is freely available until the end of June 2022.

2022 HOT PCCP Article

Publication of AK Fischer selected as 2022 HOT PCCP Article

In the publication Photoelectron spectroscopy in molecular physical chemistry, published in the Journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, the authors report the recent developments that demonstrate the power of photoelectron spectroscopy.

The publication has been selected as 2022 HOT PCCP article and is freely available until the end of April 2022.

Link to the publication

2021 HOT PCCP Article

Publication of AK Fischer selected as 2021 HOT PCCP Article

In the publication Threshold photoelectron spectroscopy of iminoborane, HBNH, published in the Journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, the authors report the mass-selected threshold photoelectron spectrum (ms-TPES) of iminoborane (HBNH), generated by pyrolysis of borazine.

The publication has been selected as 2021 PCCP HOT Article and is freely available until the end of March 2022.

Congratulations to Florian Hirsch

On 15th December 2021 Florian Hirsch successfully defended his doctoral thesis on IR/UV Double-Resonance Spectroscopy of Reactive Hydrocarbon Species and their Reaction Products in Cold Molecular Jets.

We wish you all the best for the future!

PTC Seminar

Beamtime at the FELIX free electron laser in Nijmegen

Excimer formation dynamics in the isolated tetracene dimer

Publication of AKs Fischer and Mitric cover in Chemical Science

In the puclication, which is the cover of the journal Chemical Science (Vol.12, Number 36), AKs of Prof. Ingo Fischer and Prof. Roland Mitric describe the excimer formation in the isolated tetracene dimer after excitation into the S2 state.  

Link of publication

Beamtime at Synchrotron SOLEIL

From 24. - 30.07.21 Prof. Ingo Fischer, Marius Gerlach, Tobias Preitschopf, Emil Karaev and Heidy Quitián-Lara from AK Fischer were in Gives-sur Yvette, south of Paris, to do experiments at Synchrotron SOLEIL.

New publication in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.

In our new publication we present the threshold photoelectron spectrum of cyclobutadiene together with a simulation based on time-dependent wavepacket dynamics.

Congratulations to Domenik Schleier

On 9th July 2021 Domenik Schleier successfully defended his doctoral thesis on Using photoionization to investigate reactive Boron species and the kinetics of hydrocarbon radicals.

We wish you all the best for the future!

New Masterstudent

A big welcome back to our new masterstudent Lilith Wohlfart.
We wish you a good and successful time at the AK Fischer!

Congratulations to Marco Flock

On 23rd June 2021 Marco Flock successfully defended his doctoral thesis on Velocity Map Imaging Untersuchung nichtstrahlender Prozesse in polyzyklischen Aromaten und deren van der Waals Clustern.

We wish you all the best for the future!

Congratulations

On 31st May 2021 Engelbert Reusch successfully defended his doctoral thesis on Photoionisation of biradicals with synchrotron radiation.

We wish you all the best for the future! Honey and Schnaps are always welcome ;-)

New Bachelorstudent

A big welcome to our new bachelorstudent:

Kasimir Merlin Philipp

We wish you a good and successful time at the AK Fischer!

New publication in J. Chem. Phys.

New publication about the fragmentation of HNCO published: Fragmentation of isocyanic acid, HNCO, following core excitation and ionization

New Masterstudents

A big welcome to our new masterstudents:

Klaus Hofmann and Emil Karaev

We wish you a good and successful time at the AK Fischer!

HOT PCCP article

Our article Photoelectron spectroscopy of boron-containing reactive intermediates using synchrotron radiation: BH2, BH, and BF, DOI: 10.1039/C9CP06010C has been selected by the Editors of Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. as a 2019 HOT PCCP article. Please find the collection, now including our publication, here. As part of the 2019 HOT articles collection, the article will be made free to access until the end of June 2020.

 

Measurements at the Synchrotron SOLEIL

From 11. bis 17. Juni 2019 members of the AK Fischer together with colleagues from Potsdam carried out measurements at the soft X-Ray beamline at the Synchrotron SOLEIL in Paris.

AK Fischer at the Bunsentagung 2019

From 30.05. - 01.06.19 the Bunsentagung 2019 took place in Jena. The AK Fischer took part with one lecture and several posters. Furthermore Dr. Fabian Holzmeier, a fomer member of the AK Fischer, was awarded with the Ewald-Wicke-Preis. Congratulations!

 

New team members

Welcome to our new team members: Tobias Preitschopf as a PhD student and Marius Gerlach is working on his master thesis.

We wish you a good and successful time at the AK Fischer!

Congratulations to Philipp Constantinidis

On 20th March 2019 Philipp Constantinidis successfully defended his doctoral thesis on Untersuchung von Reaktionen bei hohen Temperaturen mit Hilfe von Schwingungsspektroskopie.

We wish you all the best for the future!

Experiments at the Synchrotron SOLEIL, France

In February 2019 Deb Pratim Mukhopadhyay, Domenik Schleier and Ingo Fischer were at the Synchrotron SOLEIL south of Paris, to analyse the hydrogen abstraction of diborane under the condition of the highest safety precaution.

 

New Co-Worker at the AK Fischer

Since the 1st of November 2018 Dr. Deb Pratim Mukhopadhyay is working as a postdoc at the AK Fischer. We wish you a good and successful time in Würzburg.

 

Congratulations!

On 23th of October 2018 Kai Pachner successfully defended his doctor's thesis Photodissoziationsreaktionen der Xylyl-Radikale , C8H9, und des Benzyl-Radikals, C7H7: Eine Velocity-Map-Imaging Studie. He arleady did his master thesis at the AK Fischer.

We wish you all the best for your future work in Hamburg.

Anja Röder gets Humboldt Research Fellowship

Congratulations to our former member Anja Röder for her Humblodt Research Fellowship. Anja wrote her master (2014) and doctoral thesis (2017) at the AK Fischer.

With the Fellowship she will do research on ultrafast spectroscopy of molecules at the University of Ottawa (Canada), working with the group of Prof. Albert Stolow.

New Co-Worker

Since the beginning of October Christian Matthaei is working as a PhD student at the AK Fischer. Christian studied at the University of Potsdam and he will work on ns-lasersystems. We wish Christian a good and successful time in Würzburg.

 

 

Award-winning doctoral thesis

At the traditional Foundation Day ceremony Dr. Anja Röder (AK Fischer) was awarded a prize for her doctoral thesis by the Unterfränkische Gedenkjahrstiftung für Wissenschaft and the University of Wuerzburg. Congratulations!

Report of the Foundation Day ceremony (in German)

Welcome

Welcome to Lisa Lummel (Master) and Lea Bosse (Bachelor). Hope you have a great and successful time!

AK Fischer Lecture on 11th April 2018

On 11th April 2018 (room 0.017, Praktikumsgebäude Z7, 10 am) Deb Pratim Mukhopadhyay of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, India will hold a lecture about "Low frequency vibrations, vibrational dynamics and energetics of Hydrogen-bonded binary clusters of fluorophenol under isolated condition". You are welcome to join us!

GRK 2112: International Symposium on Molecular Biradicals

From Feb. 27th to March 2nd 2018 the Research Training School GRK 2112 organized an international Symposium on Molecular Biradicals, which took place in the Toscana Hall of the Würzburg Residence. Around 100 scientists from all over the world presented and discussed their most recent research related to biradicals. Topics ranged from modern spectroscopic and computational methods to studies on reactions of biradicals and applications in material science. In particular graduate students and postdocs enjoyed the opportunity to present their work to leading experts in short talks or poster.

For more information about the GRK 2112 visit:

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/grk2112

Synchrotron SOLEIL

In January 2018 a team from our group went to the SOLEIL storage ring close to Paris to carry out experiments on reactive boron compounds.

Congratulations Hans-Christian Schmitt!

On 30th of November 2017 Hans-Christian Schmitt successfully defended his doctor's thesis "Deaktivierungsprozesse in isolierten aromatischen Heterocyclen und Pyrene". Congratulations and alle the best for the future!

Laserlab Europe

In September/October 2017 Anja Röder and Isabella Wagner,  as one of the first external users, could visit the new ATTOLab User Facility in Saclay, France within a Laserlab Europe Measurement. They were actively supported by Lionel Poisson, Sana Habka and Guillaume Gallician. A big thank you to all of them and also to the laser technicians at the ATTOLab User Facility!

Trip to the Raman lab of Prof. Kiefer

On a Friday in September the Research Group Fischer visited the Raman Lab of Prof. Kiefer in Eisingen. Prof. Kiefer showed us Raman spectra in colour which was a very good way of comprehending this process. Afterwards we had a drink and some excellent Serano ham and discussed the highlights of the history of Raman. A big thank you to Prof. Kiefer!

Cooperation agreement with UBC Vancouver

Prof. Dr. Edward Grant from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver/Canada held a lecture on 12th of July 2017 and signed a cooperation agreement with JMU.

Congratulations to Anja Röder

On 10th July 2017 Anja Röder defended her thesis "Excited-State Dynamics in Open-Shell Molecule". Congratulations and all the best for your stay in Canada!

ChemCup 2017

 "Fishermen and Friends" started the Chem Cup 2017 as defending champion. But this time they already were eliminated in the first round. Nevertheless we had a lot of fun! 

Prizes at the ChemSystm for the AK Fischer

At the recent ChemSystm organized by the JCF Würzburg Kai Pachner received a prize for the best poster in the field of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry.

Hans-Christian Schmitt won a prize for the best posterappetizer.

Prof. Fischer at the ICOPVS 2016 in India

Prof. Ingo Fischer attended the ICOPVS 2016 (6th International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy) from 05.11 - 08.11.16 in Lucknow, India. He was invited as Plenary Speaker and did a lecture about "Vibrational Spectroscopy of Reactive Intermediates".

FELIX 2016

In August Philipp Constantinidis, Prof. Dr. Ingo Fischer and Florian Hirsch performed experiments at the Free Electron Laser in Nijmegen/Netherlands. They were supported by Dr. Anouk Rijs, Daniel Bakker and Sjors Bakels.

ChemCup winners 2016!!!

A dream come true!
For the very first time the AK Fischer has won the prestigious ChemCup and they can call themselves now the best football team of the Faculty for a whole year. Without losing a single match the "Fischerman & Friends" made it to the finals against "Trapper Shorty & die Flintenbois & Shotgungirls" (AK Radius & Finze). It was a fair final and our guest professor Animesh Ojha shot the decisive goal to win the final 3:2. He chipped the ball into the left corner of the net. The victory was then celebrated in style.

Schwanberglauf 2016

Former and current members of the AK Fischer took part again in the Schwanberglauf 2016. After the 10.4 km run uphill they ended the evening at the winefestival in Castell. With a time of 48:25 min Jörg Herterich was the fastest runner of the "Fischerman & Friends".

Animesh Ojhia - our Guest Scientist from India

Dr. Animesh Kumar Ojhia from the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India is staying with our research group from May until Agust this year. Together with Prof. Ingo Fischer he will be working on "Synthesis and Spectroscopic Investigations of Interfacial Polarization of CeO2, ZrO2 and WO3 Nanostructures Over the Graphene Sheet". We wish him all the best for his stay here in Würzburg!

Measuring at CEA Saclay

In June Anja Röder, Hans-Christian Schmitt and Florian Hirsch from the Fischer Group conducted measurements at the CEA Saclay near Paris. Assisted by Prof. Ingo Fischer and Dr. Lionel Poisson.

They also took the chance to meet former fellow Fabian Holzmeier, who now works as PostDoc at Synchrotron Soleil in Paris.

DPG Spring Meeting in Hannover

The DPG Spring Meeting took place in Hannover from 29.02 - 04.03.16. The members of the research group Fischer contributed with four presentations and one poster.

Congratulations to Fabian Holzmeier!

Fabian Holzmeier defended his doctor's thesis "Photoionization of Nitrogen-Containing Reactive Molecules with Synchrotron Radiation". Congratulations and all the best for your time in Paris!

PhD thesis defense of Melanie Lang

On 27th of July 2015 Melanie Lang defended her doctor's thesis "Valence Shell Photoionization of Soot Precursors with Synchrotron Radiation".
Congratulations Dr. Lang!

AK Fischer once again quite sporting in 2105

ChemCup 2015

At the ChemCup of the faculty our team "Fisherman & Friends" failed in the quarter-finals in an unfortunate way. But we won't let it get us down and we'll try again next year.

Schwanberglauf 2015

At the traditional Schwanberglauf current and former members of the research group Fischer braved the heat and performed excellently.
Guest researcher Leonie Theis again reached a fantastic third place (women) which was celebrated at the wine festival in Castell afterwards.

PhD thesis defense of Jens Giegerich

On 24th of June Jens Giegerich defended his doctor's thesis "Velocity-map-imaging studies on reactive intermediates: Fulvenallenes, C3H2 isomers and alkylradicals".
Congratulations!

Experiments at the PLEIADES beamline

In June 15 a team from our group investigated in a cooperation with the group of Markus Gühr (Stanford) the inner shell ionisation of HNCO. The experiments were carried out at the soft x-ray beamline PLEIADES at the storage ring SOLEIL. We received great support from Christophe Nicolas and Saikat Nandi.

New GRK approved

On 08th of May the new GRK 2112 "Molecular biradicals: structure, properties and reactivity" was approved for funding by the DFG.
Website of the GRK 2112

Congratulations!

We congratulate Mr. Jörg Herterich on his doctor's degree.