As we continue to achieve unprecedented control over material design, capturing dynamic behavior across multiple length and timescales has become essential for understanding fundamental structure-function relationships. From slow self-assembly and molecular diffusion to ultrafast electronic and structural processes, these dynamics govern the functionality and performance of emerging materials in biological sciences, energy conversion, quantum technologies, and next-generation electronics. Advanced transient microscopy techniques— spanning purely optical methods (e.g., scattering, absorption, photoluminescence), electron-based approaches (e.g., 4D TEM and SEM), and scanning probe techniques (e.g., AFM, STM)—are offering new ways to study material properties with high spatial and temporal resolution.
This #NanoDyn symposium will bring together a diverse group of scientists to investigate how a wide range of novel materials can be probed with these cutting-edge experimental techniques and how emerging data-driven analysis methods may be used to explore previously inaccessible regimes of nanoscale functionality. Whether you are already using these approaches or are considering how they might advance your research, #NanoDyn aims to connect with experts, share insights, and foster collaboration across diverse fields.
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- Fast and ultrafast nanoscale probing of structural, electronic and magnetic dynamics.
- Exciton, charge and phonon transport and propagation in novel materials.
- In-situ / in-operando optical and electronic probes studying material synthesis, transformations and reactions.
- Multimodal techniques with high spatial and temporal resolution.
- Emerging machine learning approaches for advancing imaging techniques and data analysis.
Dr. Armin Feist is a scientist in the Department of Ultrafast Dynamics at the Max-Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. After studying in Leipzig, Leeds, and Göttingen, his Ph.D., working in the group of Prof. Claus Ropers at the University of Göttingen, focused on developing and applying Ultrafast TEM using coherent electron pulses. His distinctions include the 2019 EPS-QEOD Thesis Prizes for applied aspects and the Optica Li Innovation Prize 2022. Current research interests are nanoscale structural dynamics, ultrafast plasmonics, and optically tailored free-electron beams. This entails exploring new instrumental capabilities in electron microscopy, with the vision of combining ultrafast optics and integrated photonics with state-of-the-art electron microscopes.
Ferry Prins is a tenure-Track Group leader at the Condesed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC) of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Ferry obtained an MSc in Chemistry from Leiden University (2007) and a PhD in Physics from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology (2011). After completion of his PhD, he joined the the group of Prof. Will Tisdale at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There, he started exploring the optical properties of nanomaterial assemblies with an emphasis on excitonic energy-transfer interactions. In 2014 he moved to ETH Zurich for a postdoc with Prof. David Norris at the Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory. With support from the Swiss National Science Foundation, he started an independent group at ETH in 2015. In Spring 2017 he joined he Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC) at the Autonoma University of Madrid where he directs the Photonic Nanomaterials and Devices Lab. His group specializes in the development of light-management strategies for semiconductor nanomaterials.
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