New Postdoc Coming Soon!
Congratulations to Rafaella Georgiou for winning the HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. Rafaella will join our group for two years in early 2023. Rafaella will use X-ray spectroscopy to probe the chemical speciation of paint materials …
May 8, 2022Proud of Our Teaching Assistants!
Congratulations to Minhal and Jake on their teaching assistant awards! Minhal was awarded Best Fall Teaching Assistant for 2021 and Jake was awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Assistant for Spring 2022.
May 6, 2022Hosting the Colloquium Speaker
This week, Professor Bergmann hosted the colloquium speaker, Mark Hunter. Mark visited us all the way from SLAC National Accelerator Lab to share how we can use XFELs to study structural biology!
April 29, 2022Ryan and Berta’s Birthdays!
This week in our group meeting, we celebrated Ryan and Berta’s birthdays! Happy birthday to you both!
March 29, 2022Two Down, One to Go
The second one of our vacuum chambers was leak tested by a couple of our students (from left to right, Zain, Berta). The test went well and it’s now found its home in the lab!
February 22, 2022Minhal’s Birthday!
This week in our group meeting, we celebrated Minhal’s birthday! Happy birthday, Minhal!
February 21, 2022New Semester – New Graduate Students
We are excited to start the new semester with two new graduate students! We welcomed Minhal Gardezi and previous rotation student Roberta Candela to our group in early January.
January 28, 2022Laser Installation
The laser has been installed and now our students are ready to be trained. Thank you Adam for the installation!
December 8, 2021Ready for Laser Installation
With the optical tables installed and ready to go, we were able to finally take the laser out of the box and get it up on the table. The next step is to have the …
November 18, 2021The Tables Have Finally Arrived!
After some delays, our optical tables have finally arrived. They are fully installed and ready for the optics!
November 16, 2021Welcome, graduate student Minhal Gardezi!
Minhal will join the group this coming Spring semester. In the Spring of 2020 she graduated from Wellesley College, where she studied Physics and Computer Science. She completed her undergraduate thesis and post-graduate research fellowship …
November 2, 2021Dinner with our Growing Group!
With a third undergraduate, a rotation student, and another graduate student to join in the spring, our larger group had one more dinner this semester while Uwe was still in town at the Vintage Brewing …
October 21, 2021Welcome, rotation student Roberta Candela!
Roberta Candela is a rotating biophysics student who most recently was working in a bioengineering lab. She recently graduated from Arizona State with a B.S in Biophysics and was a member of Dr. Scott Sayres’ …
October 11, 2021Hike with the Josh Vura-Weis group at Starved Rock State Park on October 9, 2021
Taking advantage of one of the last few nice weekends this semester, our group met up with the Josh Vura-Weis group from UIUC for a hike at Starved Rock State Park in Oglesby, IL. We …
October 11, 2021Graduate student, Zain Abhari, gives talk to the Board of Visitors on October 7, 2021
We are proud to see Zain Abhari giving a presentation at the Board of Visitors meeting on October 7, 2021. The video will be posted here soon!
October 11, 2021Watch the Investiture Lecture of Uwe Bergmann held on September 8, 2021
Watch the lecture here
September 10, 2021Welcome, new undergraduate student, Max Hanson!
Max joined the group at the start of the Fall 2021 semester, and is a junior double majoring in Physics and Mathematics.
September 8, 2021Group visit to the Josh Vura-Weis lab at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Our group, Uwe, Ryan, and Zain (from left to right), visited Josh Vura-Weis’s (right) XUV lab at UIUC. The purpose of the visit was to learn and see what a functioning XUV lab was like, …
September 2, 2021Welcome, graduate student Masoud Lazemi!
Masoud Lazemi started his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Frank de Groot and Prof. Uwe Bergmann at Utrecht University in April 2021. He is an early-stage researcher (ESR) within the SMART-X Network and will …
August 12, 2021Bucky Meets the Team!
On the way to a nice evening at the Memorial Union Terrace, our group stopped for a photo opportunity with our mascot, Bucky Badger!
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