Interested in computer vision methods to analyze large amounts of STM images?
Have a look on our recent paper, just published in Surface Science!
doi.org/10.1016/j.su...

Good start in the new year!
Ken just got his JPC paper out, congratulations!
If you are interested in how a rather simple electrospray setup can be used to deposit large molecules in a clean manner, have a look on pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

We had some tasty „Glühwein“ before our Christmas dinner in downtown Graz - chilly!
Merry Christmas!

Thanks to Martin Švec (www.fzu.cz/en/people/mg...) from the Czech Academy of Sciences who gave a fantastic seminar about his research on photophysics with SPM - impressive experiments!

We welcome Sana Younis to the group, who recently started her PhD.
She is from Pakistan and holds an MPhil in Physical Chemistry from Quaid-i-Azam University, where she worked on developing and optimizing electrochemical sensors.

Glad to have you with us, Sana!

#journalclub

Prof. Leonhard Grill shared a paper which introduces ULEPD—a photoelectron diffraction method with ~100 fs resolution. It’s ideal for ultrathin heterosystems and reveals both structural and electronic dynamics via trARPES.

Read via: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.226201

Thank you to Christoph Heil from the TU Graz (@tugraz.bsky.social) for showing us how they use supercomputers to predict promising high Tc superconductors!

#seminar

One week ago Peter Woitke from the Space Research Institute (@iwf-oeaw.bsky.social) introduced us to how they use modern astronomical observations to model the evolution of protoplanetary disks.

Thank you for the interesting talk!

#seminar

Thanks to Peter Jacobson (@spmqt.bsky.social) from the University of Queensland for visiting and showing us his team's exciting research on the epitaxial growth of hyperdoped Ga:Ge superconductors. #SPMQT_Lab

#seminar

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Thank you to Vladimir Starostin (@unituebingen.bsky.social) for showing us how to solve the Inverse Problem in scattering physics by using Machine Learning.

#MachineLearning #X-rayScattering #GravitationalWaves

We welcome Asma Khizar to the group who recently started her PhD.

She is from Pakistan and has a Master's in Applied Physics from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, and worked on optimizing electrode materials for hybrid supercacitors.

Welcome Asma! 🙂

#STM #PhD

Tip-Induced Nitrene Generation We generated trinitreno-s-heptazine, a small molecule featuring three nitrene centers, by tip-induced chemistry from the precursor 2,5,8-triazido-s-heptazine on bilayer NaCl on Au(111). The precursor’...

Check out our new paper on the tip-induced dissociation of azide groups to create nitrine, which just appeared in ACS Nano:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
What a pleasant collaboration with the groups of Leo Gross (IBM Zurich) and Friedrich Esch (TU Munich)!

RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted.

RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no - Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thanks to Chun-Liang Lin from NYCU University Taiwan (scholar.nycu.edu.tw/en/persons/chun-liang-lin) for visiting our labs and his interesting talk in our seminar! #seminar

Please share it!

We have a position with permanent perspective available in our group!

#journalclub

Today’s discussion focused on: How stacked-perovskite photodetectors overcome CMOS limitations to enable next-gen imaging performance?

Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🎉 Please welcome our new PhD student, Nikita Osipov! 👋

He completed his Master’s at Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he worked on photoswitchable complexes with paramagnetic metals based on spiropyrans.

We’re excited to have him on board! 🚀

#PhDLife #SurfaceScience #STM

🎓 Today, Leopold Widmer presented his bachelor thesis!

His research explores how STM tips expand under continuous-wave (CW) laser illumination in the ambient STM junction — a fascinating intersection of optics and nanotechnology.
Well done, Leopold! 👏🔬💡 #BachelorThesis #Nanotech #STM

#seminar

One week ago Ulrich Höfer (@unimarburg.bsky.social @uniregensburg.bsky.social) came to Graz to present us time-resolved photoemission and how it allows to track electron motion in momentum space on ultrafast time scales.

Thank you for this inspiring talk!

Tip-induced nitrene generation We generated trinitreno-s-heptazine, a small molecule featuring three nitrene centers, by tip-induced chemistry from the precursor 2,5,8-triazido-s-heptazine on bilayer NaCl on Au(111). The precursor'...

Check out our new paper available on ArXiv:
„Tip-induced nitrene generation“ by L.-A. Lieske et al.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.04741
a collaboration with IBM Zurich and TU Munich

We generated trinitreno-s-heptazine, a small molecule featuring three nitrene centers, by tip-induced chemistry

#STM #AFM #DFT

#seminar

Thanks to Gaurab Ganguly @univie.ac.at for recently sharing his group's progress on theoretical methods to better understand the storage and release of energy by photoexcited molecules

Aaand now we also have a Post-Doc position on Biobased Butenolides as Acrylate Replacement for Coatings!

www.benferinga.com/vacancies/

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Thank you to Professor Jan Řezáč @iocbprague.bsky.social‬ for sharing the progress his group is making toward combining #quantumchemistry ⚛️ and #machinelearning 🤖 to model protein-ligand interactions 👨🏻‍🔬

Check out his paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs....

An illustration of a woman hanging from a parachute made of words. The headline says: As a laid off postdoc, I turned to a side hustle—and found a new career

"Sometimes good can come from a path redirected." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4kCjozZ

#journalclub

👩‍💻 Have you ever created a #neuralnetwork 🧠 using ChatGPT? 🤖

Prof. Kowarik gave us a tutorial 👨‍🏫 on how this can be done! #AI #coding

Check out his course @uni-graz.at: 646.511 AI / Machine Learning for Data Analysis

PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.

Nature has launched its seventh global survey of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) doctoral students, which will probe graduate students’ views about their goals and challenges, and their experiences of their studies so far. Survey runs until June 11. #Academicsky 🧪

A scientist with multiple arms holding a duster, a baby, an oar, and a cake. There are multiple items in the background, including books, a clock, and other scientific equipment.

"As it turns out, pharmaceutical compounding translates well to the art of baking. … After all, cooking is chemistry."

From sports to baking, scientists shared scientific skills with #NextGenSci that could be applied outside of academia: scim.ag/4mk5Avy #WorldBakingDay

#journalclub

Switching site selectivity ⚗️

Prof. Boese shared a paper where strong coupling of specific vibrational modes to an optical cavity greatly affected reaction outcome: the disfavored product became favored inside the cavity!

Check it out at @science.org: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Opening for a PhD position within our group. Application deadline by May 29, 2025.

#research

Do your PhD in our group! 🧑‍🔬

Experiment with molecular motors and switches using #STM and #AFM 🔬

Study electrical and chemical properties using #PES 🔆

Teach the next generation of students 👩‍🏫 #YoungMinds

Deadline: 29/05/2025

Apply @universityofgraz.bsky.social: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs