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Simone Techert
Structural dynamics with ultrashort pulsed X-rays
Simone Techert is Lead Scientist in the Chemical Structural Dynamics group at DESY and Professor for Ultrafast X-ray Physics at the University of Göttingen. She develops methods for time-resolved X-ray experiments and their application and optimisation for analysis of chemical molecular processes and structure–dynamics relationships in chemical reactions, i.e. “filming” chemical reactions in real time. Her research objective is a broader understanding of energy transformation processes within the investigated complex chemical systems and how these processes influence the motion of molecules.
The group performs their experiments at highly brilliant X-ray radiation sources such as PETRA (DESY), ESRF (Grenoble, France) and APS (Argonne National Laboratory, USA). The X-ray experiments at the limits of technically feasible temporal resolution (femtoseconds) are carried out within various collaborations at the free-electron lasers FLASH (DESY) and LCLS (SLAC, USA). The results are supplemented by additional measurements at home sources (optical ultrashort-time spectroscopy as well as pulsed X-ray table-top sources).
Academic career
| Since 2013 | Lead Scientist at DESY and Professor for Ultrafast X-ray Physics at the University of Göttingen |
| 2006-2012 | Minerva Professorship, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen |
| Since 2008 | Lecturer, International Research School of Molecular Biophysics, Göttingen Research Campus |
| 2004 | Venia legendi in Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen |
| 2001-2005 |
Emmy Noether Fellow of the German Science Foundation (DFG) Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen |
| 1998 | Exchange Scientist, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA |
| 1997-2000 | Postdoctoral Fellow, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France |
| 1995-1997 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, University of Göttingen |
| 1994 | Diploma in Chemistry (Physical Chemistry), University of Giessen |
| 1988-1993 | Study of Chemistry, University of Giessen |
