07.01.2021 
Katherine joins the EST group today for a 3-month internship. Welcome, Katherine! 

16.12.2020 
Timo joins the EST group today. Welcome, Timo! 

01.12.2020 
Daniel joins the EST group today. Welcome, Daniel! 

24.11.2020 
Our paper "Electronic and Optical Properties of Protonated Triazine Derivatives" has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations!

24.11.2020 
Our project "Simulations meet experiments on the nanoscale: Opening up the quantum world to artificial intelligence (SMART)" is on the press!

20.11.2020 
Ray defended his Master's thesis today! Congratulations, Ray!

03.11.2020 
Our project "Simulations meet experiments on the nanoscale: Opening up the quantum world to artificial intelligence (SMART)" has been approved for funding by the Volkswagen Stiftung and by the Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur within the program "Digitalisierung in den Naturwissenschaften". Our consortium includes Antonietta De Sio, Christoph Lienau, and Ilia Solov'yov from the University of Oldenburg, as well as Frank Jahnke from the University of Bremen. We are looking forward to starting this exciting project!

01.11.2020 
Our project "Elucidation of the aging mechanisms of new types cathode active materials via operando XAS / XES (operaXX)" starts today! Ready, steady, go!

23.10.2020 
Our paper “In-situ functionalization of graphene” was accepted for publication on 2D Materials. Congratulations to Ana for this nice work and to Kirill & Kirill for this nice HIOS collaboration!

25.09.2020 
Our project "Elucidation of the aging mechanisms of new types cathode active materials via operando XAS / XES (operaXX)" has been approved for funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the Competence Cluster for Battery Research "AQua" for three years! We are very much looking forward to starting this new adventure with our cooperation partners Prof. Dr. Marcus Bär (HZB) and Prof. Dr. Hubert Gasteiger (TUM).

01.08.2020 
The EST group is growing! Welcome to our new group members Holger and Giovanni! 

10.07.2020 
Our paper “Understanding real-time time-dependent density-functional theory simulations of ultrafast laser-induced dynamics in organic molecules” was accepted for publication on The Journal of Chemical Physics. Congratulations to Jannis and Ana for this nice work and special thanks to Stefano and Carlo Andrea for this nice collaboration!

23.06.2020 
Our paper “Quantitative Analysis of Doping-Induced Polarons and Charge-Transfer Complexes of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) in Solution” was accepted for publication on The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Congratulations to Jannis, Michele, and Ana for this nice work, and to all the other coauthors for this nice collaboration!

15.06.2020 
Advance Science News publishes Caterina’s contribution “X-ray fingerprints of novel photocathode materials: A new route for theory and experiments to join hands”, featuring her recently published article on Physica Status Solidi – Rapid Research Letters.

05.06.2020 
Our paper “Microscopic Insight into the Electronic Structure of BCF-Doped Oligothiophenes from Ab initio Many-Body Theory” was accepted for publication on The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations to Richard and Ana for this nice work!

11.05.2020
Our paper “X‐Ray Absorption Fingerprints from Cs Atoms in Cs₃Sb” has been accepted for publication on Physica Status Solidi – Rapid Research Letters. It's open access! Check it out!!

01.04.2020
Here we are! The EST Group has landed in Oldenburg! Caterina, Michele, and Ana are already here! I can’t wait to do great science in this beautiful town and in this pleasant scientific environment!