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The MPSD investigates dynamical phenomena in matter down to the elementary timescales of atomic and electronic motions.
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The MPSD has officially opened its new, state-of-the-art research building in the Science City Hamburg, with the President of the Max Planck Society (MPG), Patrick Cramer, and the Science Senator Katharina Fegebank as guests of honor.
Ultrashort laser flashes
Light, lenses, mirrors: Researchers use laser pulses to probe the dynamic behavior of atoms and electrons.
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Mariana Rossi has been honored with the prestigious Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize 2024 by the German Bunsen Society.
2024 EPS Europhysics Prize for Andrea Cavalleri
Andrea Cavalleri, founding director of the MPSD and head of the Condensed Matter Dynamics Department, will be honored with the 2024 EPS Europhysics Prize by the European Physical Society.Scientific Departments
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Mariana Rossi, head of a Lise-Meitner Excellence group in MPSD, has been awarded a prestigious ERC ...