People
Group members:
Anders Nilsson, Professor
Office: C6:3067
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8637, e-mail: andersn@fysik.su.se
About: Professor Anders Nilsson heads the experimental section of the XSoLaS group. He joined Stockholm University in 2014 after working as a professor at Stanford University for 15 years. Some of his research group members are still in Stanford but most of them are in Stockholm.
The research group specializes in studying materials through their interaction with x-rays. Specifically, the research consists of studying the chemical bonds and ultrafast reactions on surface and interfaces through X-ray and electron spectroscopy and scattering, probing the hydrogen-bonding environment in water and ice at different conditions, ultrafast chemistry on surfaces, heterogeneous and electro catalysis.
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Lars G. M. Pettersson, Professor
Office: D6:3013
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8712, e-mail: lgm@fysik.su.se
About: Lars G.M. Pettersson heads the theory section of the XSoLaS group. He did his PhD in theoretical physics (1984) at Stockholm University, Sweden, where he focused on highly accurate quantum chemical calculations as well as developing approximate modeling techniques. He did post-doctoral studies (1984-1986) in California at IBM, San Jose, and NASA Ames Research Center. He returned to Stockholm University where he is a professor in theoretical chemical physics. His research focus lies on modeling processes at surfaces, theoretical treatment and application of inner-shell spectroscopies, but the main effort is devoted to understanding the structure and dynamics of water and aqueous solutions.
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Peter Amann, Researcher
Office: C6:3065
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8716, e-mail: peter.amann@fysik.su.se
About: Peter joined the XSoLaS group in November 2014 and his research interests are in studying surface chemical reactions under high pressure and high temperature and investigating the solid-liquid interface. The techniques which he uses are high pressure XPS and TPD.
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Katrin Amann-Winkel, Researcher
Office: D6:3012
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8700, e-mail: katrin.amannwinkel@fysik.su.se
About: Katrin joined the XSolaS group in November 2014. Her research interests are the experimental investigation of the glass transition in amorphous ices, hence probing 'No Man's land' from the low-temperature side. Katrin was born in Germany and studied physics at the Technical University Darmstadt. She completed her PhD under supervision of Erwin Mayer and Thomas Loerting on amorphous ices in 2009 at the University of Innsbruck. She continued her studies on amorphous ices in Innsbruck with a Hertha Firnberg grant (FWF) until 2014 and then moved to Stockholm University.
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Mia Börner, Project Assistant
Office: T6:1002
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 XXXX, e-mail: mia.borner@fysik.su.se
About: Mia joined the group in May 2017 and is now working as a project
assistant in the field of electrocatalysis. Her main research interest
is the conversion of climate endangering greenhouse gases into valuable
chemicals and fuels. At the moment she is focused on propylene oxidation
and carbon-dioxide reduction.
Mia studied environmental engineering at Technical University of
Braunschweig and energy and material physics at Technical University of
Clausthal. She completed her master thesis about laser-structured
catalysts for the carbon-dioxide reduction reaction at Stockholm
University.
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Gaia Camisasca, Postdoc
Office: C6:3069
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8714, e-mail: gaia.camisasca@fysik.su.se
About: Gaia joined the XSoLaS group in March 2017 after obtaining her PhD in physics from Roma Tre University under the supervision of Prof. Paola Gallo. Her research involved theoretical simulations to study dynamics and thermodynamics of supercooled water.
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Oscar Diaz Morales, Postdoc
Office: T6:1003
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8701, e-mail: oscar.diazmorales@fysik.su.se
About: Oscar joined XSolaS group as a postdoctoral researcher in September 2016. His specific research in the group involves the use of operando x-ray techniques to probe the electrocatalytic carbon dioxide conversion into storable fuels. Oscar is originally from Caracas, Venezuela and obtained his bachelor and master degree in Chemistry at Simon Bolivar University. After completing his master, he moved to The Netherlands where he obtained the PhD degree from Leiden University by successfully defending the thesis entitled 'Catalysis of the electrochemical water oxidation to oxygen'; the thesis was performed under supervision of Prof. Marc Koper. He stayed one year more in Leiden, as a postdoctoral researcher in a joint project between Leiden University and Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation; the project aimed to use electrochemical and microcopy techniques to study platinum corrosion. His research interests cover the use of spectroscopy (UV-Vis, Raman, Infrared, Mass Spectrometry, X-rays) to study the electrode-electrolyte interface in operando conditions.
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David Degerman, PhD student
Office: C6:3069
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8714, e-mail: david.degerman@fysik.su.se
About: David joined the XSoLaS group in August 2015 after studying chemistry at Stockholm University specializing in Materials Chemistry. He contributes mainly to the surface science research using High Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HP-XPS). His overall goal is to characterize and improve catalysts for various energy applications. His other hobbies include science communication, comic books, choir, video games and church.
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Jörgen Gladh, Postdoc
Office: C6:3069
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8711, e-mail: gladh@fysik.su.se
About: Jörgen joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher in November 2017. He has a Master of Sciences in Engineering Physics from Karlstad University, and he obtaining his PhD in Chemical Physics here at Stockholms University. He currently is working on the construction of a new experimental chamber to perform THz radiation measurements of chemical reactions on surfaces using x-ray spectroscopies.
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Mikaela Görlin, Postdoc
Office: T6:1002
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8635, e-mail: mikaela.gorlin@fysik.su.se
About: Mikaela joined the XSoLaS group in May 2017. She carried out her PhD in the group of Prof. Peter Strasser at Technical University of Berlin as part of the Berlin International Graduate School of Natural Sciences and Engineering (BIG-NSE), offered by'Unifying Concepts in Catalysis(UniCat)'. She was working in the field of electrocatalysis, with focus on non-noble metal catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). She also carried out Postdoctorial studies in the group of Prof. Holger Dau at Free University of Berlin focusing on X-ray methods. She undertook her undergraduate studies at Uppsala University where her studies focused on artificial photosynthesis and photochemistry at the 'fotomol' department.
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Joakim Halldin Stenlid, Postdoc
Office: C6:3069
Telephone: +46 (0)8 8714 , e-mail: joakim.halldin-stenlid@fysik.su.se
About: Joakim joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher in November 2017 after obtaining his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. His research interests cover theoretical aspects of chemical reaction​s and interactions including the development of computational methods for efficient estimations of molecular, nanoparticle and surface reactivity. He is currently studying anoxic copper corrosion at the atomic scale using density functional theory(DFT).
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Svante Hedström, Postdoc
Office: T6:1004
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8218, e-mail: svante.hedstrom@fysik.su.se
About: Svante joined the group in June 2017 as a postdoctoral fellow, after obtaining his PhD from Lund University in 2015 and a postdoctoral appointment at Yale University. Here, he is involved in the efforts to theoretically investigate catalytic reactions of small molecules on metal surfaces, particularly carbon-dioxide reduction on copper. His general research interests are energy conversion, charge transport, and catalysis, using quantum and other computational chemistry methods.
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Boyang Liu, Postdoc
Office: C6:3069
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8714, e-mail: boyang.liu@fysik.su.se
About: Boyang joined the XSoLaS group as a postdoctoral researcher in October 2017. He finished his PhD study under the supervision of Professor Frank de Groot in Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He was focused on using synchrotron based soft X-ray spectroscopy to study 3d transition metal containing materials. Currently, he is focusing on using X-ray free-electron-laser to investigate the chemical dynamics on surfaces.
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Chang Liu, PhD student
Office: C6:3074
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8631, e-mail: chang.liu@fysik.su.se
About: Chang Liu joined the XSoLaS group in 2015 as a PhD student after obtaining his master degree in engineering physics in KTH. His current research interest includes theoretical investigations of the electrocatalysis of carbon dioxide reduction reaction and theoretical calculations of X-ray spectroscopies with quantum chemical methods.
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Jonatan Öström, PhD student
Office: D6:3069
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8714, e-mail: jonatan.ostrom@fysik.su.se
About: Jonatan joined the XSoLaS group in May 2016 as a PhD student in the theory part of the group, engaging in the theoretical and computational study of water. He studied Engineering Physics at Luleå University of Technology, where his thesis project was a computational study of an astrochemical bondÂmaking process called Radiative Association. His main research interest is longÂrange intermolecular interactions.
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Harshad Pathak, Postdoc
Office: D6:3012
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8700, e-mail: harshad.pathak@fysik.su.se
About: Harshad joined the XSoLaS group in March 2015 after completing his PhD from The Ohio State University in Chemical Engineering under Dr. Barbara Wyslouzil. He is currently building an experimental set-up to probe the temperatures and specific heat capacities of bulk water and later on upgrade the experiment to higher pressures to probe water's liquid-liquid critical point (LLCP) through experiments. He also collaborates with theoriticians to find LLCP of water from MD simulations for different water models.
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Mikhail Shiplin, Postdoc
Office: C6
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 xxxx, e-mail: mikhail.shipilin@fysik.su.se
About: Mikhail Shipilin joined the group in January 2018 with funding provided by Swedish Research Council (VetenskapsrĂĄdet) for the tree years long project "CO and CO2 conversion to ethanol over Rh- and Cu-based model catalysts". Mikhail received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2016 from Lund University with Prof. Edvin Lundgren and Dr. Johan Gustafson. His research interests focus on structural studies of model heterogeneous catalysts in situ under working conditions using synchrotron-based experimental techniques.
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Alexander Späh, PhD student
Office: C6:3074
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8631, e-mail: alexander.spaeh@fysik.su.se
About: Alexander joined the group in August 2015 as an experimentalist. He focuses on structures and dynamics of fluctuations between local HDL and LDL configurations in water from ambient temperatures down to the supercooled regime.
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Hsin-Yi Wang, Postdoc
Office: T6:1002
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8635, e-mail: wang.hy@fysik.su.se
About: Hsin-Yi joined the XSoLaS group with a background of electrochemistry in May 2017 after obtaining his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering under Dr. Bin Liu. He is currently building an in-situ setup to observe the surface intermediate on the catalyst under the electrochemical condition via synchrotron radiation with pump-probe method, further elucidating the transit reaction mechanism.
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Matthew Weston, Postdoc
Office: C6:3066
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8721, e-mail: matthew.weston@fysik.su.se
About: Matthew joined the group in April 2015. His research interests include studying ultrafast surface chemistry using free electron lasers.
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Iurii Zhovtobriukh, PhD student
Office: C6:3074
Telephone: +46 (0)8 5537 8631, e-mail: Iurii.Zhovtobriukh@fysik.su.se
About:Iurii joined the XSoLaS group in July, 2012. His research interest lies in the theoretical modelling of the X-ray emission (XES) and absorption (XAS) spectroscopies of water and ice. One project is devoted to finding relevant order parameter which is suitable to explain the different spectrum features in both XES and XAS spectroscopies of the liquid water, another project is connected with accurate simulation of emission water spectrum with inclusion dynamical effects via the semi-classical approximation to the Kramers-Heisenberg formula.
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Collaborators:
Daniel Friebel, Associate staff scientist, SLAC National accelerator laboratory
e-mail: dfriebel@slac.stanford.edu
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May Ling Ng, PostDoc, SLAC National accelerator laboratory
e-mail:mlng@slac.stanford.edu
About:May Ling studies thermal and electrocatalytic reactions under ambient pressure and in operando conditions using APXPS. She also uses other surface science techniques such as NEXAFS, XES, LEED and STM in complementary to XPS. She supports the experimental and maintenance activities at the APXPS endstation at BL13-2, SSRL. Her research interests are carbon chemistry on transition metal model catalysts, artificial photosynthesis and 2D materials (e.g. hexagonal boron nitride and graphene).
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Hirohito Ogasawara, Staff scientist, SLAC National accelerator laboratory
e-mail: hirohito@slac.stanford.edu
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Egon Santos, visiting PhD student, Stockholm University
e-mail: egon.cs@fysik.su.se
About:Egon joined the XSoLaS group in September 2017 as a PhD student in the theory part of the group. His research interests are studying metal sulfides and its implications in mine industry and the environment.
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Jonas Sellberg, Assistant Professor, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
e-mail: jonassel@kth.se
About:Jonas obtained his PhD in chemical physics at Stockholm University in 2014 under the supervision of Anders Nilsson and Lars GM Pettersson. His PhD thesis titled X-ray scattering and spectroscopy of supercooled water and ice received the Sigrid Arrhenius stipend for eminent research during graduate studies. Jonas continued his scientific career as postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of molecular biophysics at Uppsala University and joined recently the biomedical & x-ray physics group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where he is currently an assistant professor in applied physics. His expertise lies within x-ray scattering and spectroscopy of water and ice, ultrafast pump probe x-ray spectroscopy of surface adsorbates, and coherent diffractive imaging of live viruses and cells.
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Former Group members:
Ming-Tao Lee
About: Ming was in the XSoLaS group May 2016-April 2018.Personal web page
Simon Schreck
About: Simon was in the XSoLaS group in May 2015- February 2018 after receiving his PhD from the University of Potsdam and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany.
Filippo Cavalca
About: Filippo was in the XSolaS group from September 2015- November 2017.
Daniel Mariedahl
About: Daniel was in the XSoLaS group as an experimentalist from August 2015-September 2018.
Kyung Hwan Kim
About: Kyung Hwan was in the XSoLaS group from March 2016-August 2018.
Elias Diesen
About: Elias was in the group from August 2016- September 2018.(We would like to thank our sponsors:)
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