Philipp Kukura

My research is concerned with the development and application of spectroscopic and imaging tools designed to visualise, study and eventually control dynamic processes in chemistry and biology.

There are three mains themes running currently in our work: (i) We use ultrafast spectroscopy to study the role of conical intersections in mediating efficient photochemistry and photophysics in condensed phase reaction dynamics; (ii) real time nanodynamics, we are developing a novel interferometric imaging technique based on light scattering (ISCAT) for fast localisation of single emitters, allowing us to study the mechanisms of molecular motors, dynamics at interfaces and polymer properties; and (iii) we aim to access both ultrashort time and ultrasmall length scales to ultimately study and control coherent phenomena at the nanoparticle and eventually single molecule level.

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