NACH OBEN

Physikalische Chemie II



Founding director of
Cluster of Excellence
RESOLV

Director of ZEMOS
Research Ecosystem
with Core Facilities

Director of UA Ruhr
Research Center Chemical
Sciences and Sustainability


Forschungsschwerpunkte
Terahertz spectroscopy – Ask the Water!

THz spectroscopy a sensitive tool to probe solute-induced changes in the collective water network motions. Time-resolved THz spectroscopy investigates the solvation dynamics of biological processes such as protein folding, enzyme activity, water dynamics and calorimetry.

High-resolution infrared spectroscopy

Molecules are embedded in ultracold, superfluid helium nanodroplets at 0.37 K to investigate their structure and dynamics. Microsolvation and microaggregation of molecular clusters are studied using high-resolution infrared spectroscopy.


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