Dr. Benjamin Dietzek

Head of Junior Research Group at the Institute of Photonic Technology Jena e.V. (IPHT)
Research Associate at Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Friedrich Schiller University Jena - Institute of Physical Chemistry Helmholtzweg 4 07737 Jena Institute of Photonic Technology Jena e.V. Albert-Einstein-Straße 9 07745 Jena Phone +49 (0)3641 206332 Fax +49 (0)3641 948399 http://www.ipc.uni-jena.de This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

JSMC Project: Ultra Microscopy for the Investigation of physiological and pathophysiological processes
Research Interests and Areas of Supervision

• Chemical imaging
• Dynamics in complex systems
• Light-induced reaction dynamics
• Protein-substrate interactions

Education and Scientific Career
2002 Master of Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook
2003 Diploma in Physics, University of Würzburg
2003-2005 Scientific Coworker, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Würzburg
2005 PhD in Chemistry, University of Würzburg
2006 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University
2007 Postdoctoral fellow (Feodor Lynen), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Since 2008 Research Associate at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, and Head of Junior Research Group Ultrafast Spectroscopy at the Institute of Photonic Technology Jena e.V.


Honours and Awards
2007 Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
2008 Liebig-Stipendium, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (abgelehnt)

Most important publications in international refereed journals
01. Dietzek, B.; Brüggemann, B.; Pascher, T.; Yartsev, A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2007) 129, 13014.
02. Dietzek, B.; Brüggemann, B.; Pascher, T.; Yartsev, A. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2006)  97, 258301.
03. Dietzek, B.; Gräfe, S.; Schmitt, M.; Yartsev, A.; Pascher, T.; Sundström, V.; Kiefer, W.; Ivanov M.Y. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2007) 98, 187402.
04. Dietzek, B.; Kiefer, W.; Blumhoff, J.; Bottcher, L.; Rau, S.; Walther, D.; Uhlemann, U.; Schmitt, M.; Popp, J. Chem. Eur. J. (2006) 12, 5105.
05. Dietzek, B.; Pascher, T.; Yartsev, A. J. Phys. Chem. B (2007) 111, 6304.