15 September 2023
Our most recent contribution on using ultrashort x-ray beams for exploring fundamental processes in chemical reactions (DOI: 10.1039/D3CP01257C) was highlighted by the European XFEL: "New approach to data analysis of X-ray experiments" and featured on the cover of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics:
26 May 2023
Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller receives a DKK 2.9 million grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) to the project Solvation of Fission Products in a Molten Salt Reactor (SolveMSR).
30 March 2023
Professor Klaus B. Møller has been selected for the Reviewer Spotlight feature in Chemical Science https://twitter.com/ChemicalScience/status/1641440149492977664
14 December 2022
Our most recent contribution on solvation dynamics is featured on the cover of the Journal of Chemical Physics:
1 December 2022
Benedikte Knorr Jensen joins as PhD student.
1 July 2022
Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller and colleagues from DTU Physics and University of Vienna publish the article Resolving Femtosecond Solvent Reorganization Dynamics in an Iron Complex by Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations in the highly recognized Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). Read the article here.
14 June 2022
PhD scholarship announced in my group with application deadline 30 August 2022, see here.
19 November 2021
Former PhD student Marta López Vidal receives a DTU Young Researchers Award at the annual DTU PhD Graduation Ceremony.
15 October 2021
Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller together with Professor Martin Meedom Nielsen from DTU Physics receive a DKK 6.2 million grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) to the project Ultrafast Mapping of Singlet Fission for Solar Energy Conversion (UltraSol).
18 August 2021
Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller together with DTU Chemistry Professor Sonia Coriani and former Postdocs. Shota Tsuru and Mátyás Pápai published in an international collaboration the article X-ray transient absorption reveals the 1Au (nπ*) state of pyrazine in electronic relaxation in the highly recognized Nature Communications. Read the article here.
6 July 2021
Simone Anika Skou Olsen successfully defends her MSc thesis entitled Mapping of Waste and Debris in Real Items. Read about the project here (in Danish) or here (in English).
3 June 2021
Alexandre Paolo Voute successfully defends his PhD thesis entitled Bimolecular reaction dynamics and spectroscopy of weakly bound complexes. External examiners were Professors Henrik Stapelfeldt (Aarhus University) and Graham Worth (UCL). Congratulations!
26 November 2020
Marta López Vidal successfully defends her PhD thesis entitled Development and Applications of Coupled-Cluster Methods for X-Ray Spectroscopy. External examiners were Professors Thomas Jagau (KU Leuven) and Nicholas Besley (University of Nottingham). Congratulations!
31 January 2020
Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller and colleagues in an international consortium published the article Vibrational wavepacket dynamics in Fe carbene photosensitizer determined with femtosecond X-ray emission and scattering in the highly recognized Nature Communications. Read the article here.
Stanford University wrote a news article about the findings of the research. Read the news article here.
02 January 2020
Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller and colleagues in an international consortium published the article Hot Branching Dynamics in a Light‐Harvesting Iron Carbene Complex Revealed by Ultrafast X‐ray Emission Spectroscopy as a “Very Important Paper” in the highly recognized Angewandte Chemie. Read the article here.
01 November 2019
Anna Kristina Schnack-Petersen joins as PhD student.
3 October 2019
Mostafa Abedi successfully defends his PhD thesis entitled Excited-State Molecular Dynamics: Application to Solar Energy Conversion and Storage Materials. External examiners were Leticia Gonzalez (Universität Wien) and Graham Worth (UCL). Congratulations!
25 June 2019
Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller and his group together with colleagues from DTU Chemistry and University of Copenhagen have published the article "Mechanism of Photoinduced Dihydroazulene Ring-Opening Reaction" in the high-impact Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Read the article here.
7 March 2019
At Open House 2019, Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller gave a presentation about several of the chemistry bachelor programmes at DTU to potential future students. More than 80 high school students attended the first of two guided tours with students from 'Chemistry and Technology' that has Klaus Braagaard Møller as Head of Studies.
22 February 2019
With two articles published in back-to-back issues of the highly recognized physics journal Physical Review Letters (PRL), Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller and colleagues have illustrated the capabilities and powers of ultrafast X-ray scattering in chemistry, ranging from complex molecular systems to the very simplest of molecules.
Read the second article Electronic Coherence in Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering from Molecular Wave Packets here
13 February 2019
Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller and colleagues from DTU Chemistry, DTU Physics, and Stanford University has their article Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering Measurements of Coherent Structural Dynamics on the Ground-State Potential Energy Surface of a Diplatinum Molecule selected as one of "Editors Suggestion" in the highly recognized physics journal Physical Review Letters (PRL).
Read the article here: Physical Review Letters, 122, Feb. 2019.
Read the news articles about the publication at DTU Chemistry's homepage or at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
11 October 2018
Mats Simmermacher successfully defends his PhD thesis entitled Theory and Simulations of Time-Resolved X-ray Scattering. External examiners were Oriol Vendrell (Universität Heidelberg) and Shaul Mukamel (UC Irvine). Congratulations!
15-16 August 2018
Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller is co-organizing the 13th Nordic Femtochemistry Conference 16-17 August in Copenhagen.
30 April 2018
Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller together with Professor Martin Meedom Nielsen from DTU Physics receive a DKK 5.9 million grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) to the project Trajectories of Charge and Structural Dynamics in Functional Molecules. Read the article: Fundamental Properties of Solar Energy Materials
12 April 2018
Gianluca Levi successfully defends his PhD thesis entitled Photoinduced Molecular Dynamics in Solution. External examiners were Leticia Gonzalez (Universität Wien) and Majed Chergui (EPFL). Congratulations!
1 April 2018
PhD student Xusong Li joins the group.
1 March 2018
Open House at DTU. Many prospective students found their way to DTU Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, where Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller told about the educations.
19 January 2018
Read the article: Shaping the Digital Chemist of Tomorrow - about a new European Innovative Training Network on computational spectroscopy with strong DTU Chemistry participation.
23 June 2017
DR - TV brought on Thursday, June 22, a feature of high dropout in upper secondary education, and as a good "counter story" the statistics shows, that the drop in 'Chemistry and Technology' is very low - only 5%. This is actually the fifth-lowest of all higher educations in Denmark. Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller and Chemistry and Technology students were interviewed for a 3 minute very positive feature about the education from DTU Chemistry.
02 March 2017
Open House at DTU where more than 200 students found their way to DTU Chemistry, where Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller told about the education.
20 December 2016
Many spectators had found their way to Professor Klaus Braagaard Møller’s Inauguration, which was an enriching experience and pleasure to attend. At once was here conveyed a difficult topic to a wider audience and also specialists in the audience got a good impression of depth in his research and where it is going.
28 November 2016
DTU Researchers Make Molecular Movies of Photocatalysis About to Happen. Read more on the DTU Chemistry news.
01 September 2016
Klaus Braagaard Møller is appointed Professor.
01 February 2016
Mostafa Abedi joins as PhD student.
15 September 2015
Mátyás Imre Pápai joins the group as a Postdoc.
20 August 2015
Klaus Braagaard Møller is making wildfire... take a look here on DR TV.
12 June 2015
By the annual meeting in Danish Chemical Society Thomas S Kuhlman, who is a former PhD student at Klaus Braagaard Møller, received the 'Molekylspektroskopiprisen' presented by 'Dansk Forening for Molekylspektroskopi' and 'Molekylspektroskopisk Fond'. He received the award for the best PhD thesis 2013-15 in the development or use of molecular spectroscopy.
01 April 2015
Mats Simmermacher joins the group as a PhD student.
01 March 2015
Researchers track electron’s lightning jump through an entire molecule. Using sophisticated laser and X-ray equipment, researchers, with Klaus B. Møller and Asmus Ougaard Dohn from DTU Chemistry, are the first to successfully track an electron’s ultra-fast path through a light absorbing molecule. Read more on the DTU Chemistry news. Read the article in Nature Communications.
01 January 2015
Asmus O. Dohn joins the group as a Postdoc.
15 December 2014
Gianluca Levi joins the group as a PhD student.
November 2014
Asmus O. Dohn defended his PhD thesis entitled 'Transient Changes in Molecular Geometries and How to Model Them.'
23 June 2014
Scientific article published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Read 'A Ticket to the (Molecular) Movies' on www.kemi.dtu.dk - Selected News
June 2014
DTU researchers receives a DKK 6.5 million grant. The grant from The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) will be used to film the ultrafast movement of electrons and their corresponding atoms when energy flows into and through a material. Read more on the DTU Chemistry news.