Today we say goodbye to Joleik and Teodora who are moving on from LUPO.

We wish both of them all the best for their next steps!

Congratulations to Dr. Joleik Nordmann who graduated with his PhD today!

Welcome to our new postdoc Matthieu Guer!

Matthieu joins us from CEA Saclay in Paris, where he completed his PhD under the supervision of Thierry Ruchon and Romain Géneaux. He will be part of the team on the ERC Starting Grant project FASTER led by Christian Brahms.

We are delighted to share a new publication Nature Communications: Decoupling structural molecular dynamics from excited state lifetimes using few-femtosecond ultraviolet resonant dispersive waves. In this collaborative work with the group of Prof Dave Townsend, we exploit the few-femtosecond pulse duration of deep ultraviolet pulses generated via resonant dispersive wave emission to observe previously invisible dynamical processes in the morpholine molecule.

Welcome to our new postdoc Connor Clarke!

Connor graduated with a first-class MSci Chemistry and Mathematics degree at Durham University in 2020. He continued at Durham to obtain a PhD in Chemistry (2024), supervised by Prof. Jan Verlet. Connor’s doctoral studies largely focused on probing microsolvated nucleobase anions with frequency-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. In 2025, he joined the LUPO group to construct a new ultrafast beamline with spectroscopic applications as part of the ERC Starting Grant project FASTER led by Christian Brahms.