Marcel Drabbels
Adjunct Professor
marcel.drabbels@epfl.ch +41 21 693 30 22 http://lnd.epfl.ch/drabbels
EPFL SB ISIC LND
CH G0 613 (Bâtiment CH)
Station 6
1015 Lausanne
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BCH 3311 (Batochime UNIL)
Av. François-Alphonse Forel 3
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 30 22
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EPFL SB ISIC LND
CH G0 613 (Bâtiment CH)
Station 6
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 30 22
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CH G0 613 (Bâtiment CH)
Station 6
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 30 22
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Biography
Dr. Marcel Drabbels studied experimental physics at the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and in 1993 obtained his Ph.D. at that same university. He then moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara where he studied the dynamics of highly vibrationally excited molecules and developed a new detection technique to investigate the photodissociation of molecules. When he returned to the Netherlands in 1996 he joined the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam where he worked on the development of new types of infrared imaging and streak cameras. In 1997 Dr. Drabbels was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and he moved to the Free University of Amsterdam where he studied the collision dynamics of molecules and initiated photodissociation experiments using ultrafast lasers. In October 1998 he was appointed as senior scientist at the EPFL where he studies the spectroscopy and dynamics of nanoscale systems. In March 2021 he was promoted to titular professor.Publications
Infoscience publications
Infoscience
Flash Melting Amorphous Ice
The Journal of Chemical Physics. 2024-05-09. DOI : 10.1063/5.0202948.Shaped Laser Pulses for Microsecond Time-Resolved Cryo-EM: Outrunning Crystallization during Flash Melting
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2024-04-11. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00315.Fast viral dynamics revealed by microsecond time-resolved cryo-EM
Nature Communications. 2023-09-13. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-023-41444-x.Near-atomic resolution reconstructions from in situ revitrified cryo samples
Structural Biology. 2023-06-01. DOI : 10.1107/S2059798323003431.Electron diffraction of deeply supercooled water in no man’s land
Nature Communications. 2023-05-17. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-023-38520-7.Diffraction imaging of light induced dynamics in xenon-doped helium nanodroplets
New Journal of Physics. 2022-11-30. DOI : 10.1088/1367-2630/aca176.Visualizing Nanoscale Dynamics with Time-resolved Electron Microscopy
Chimia. 2022-09-21. DOI : 10.2533/chimia.2022.754.Microsecond melting and revitrification of cryo samples with a correlative light-electron microscopy approach
2022-09-14. DOI : 10.1101/2022.09.14.507962.Microsecond melting and revitrification of cryo samples: protein structure and beam-induced motion
Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology. 2022-06-14. DOI : 10.1107/S205979832200554X.Accurate time zero determination in an ultrafast transmission electron microscope without energy filter
Applied Physics Letters. 2022-03-10. DOI : 10.1063/5.0087850.Microsecond melting and revitrification of cryo samples with a correlative light-electron microscopy approach
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 2022-11-10. DOI : 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1044509.Microsecond melting and revitrification of cryo samples
Structural Dynamics-Us. 2021-09-01. DOI : 10.1063/4.0000129.Rapid melting and revitrification as an approach to microsecond time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy
Chemical Physics Letters. 2021-06-11. DOI : 10.1016/j.cplett.2021.138812.Ultrafast Resonant Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Quantum Fluid Dynamics
Physical Review X. 2021-04-12. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021011.Evolution and ion kinetics of a XUV-induced nanoplasma in ammonia clusters
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2021-01-20. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6455/abcf80.High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy with Bright Microsecond Electron Pulses
Microscopy and Microanalysis. 2021. DOI : 10.1017/S1431927621009569.The fragmentation mechanism of gold nanoparticles in water under femtosecond laser irradiation
Nanoscale Advances. 2021-08-02. DOI : 10.1039/d1na00406a.Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Fast Nanoscale Dynamics with Bright Microsecond Electron Pulses
Nano Letters. 2020-12-03. DOI : 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04184.Characterization of a time-resolved electron microscope with a Schottky field emission gun
Structural Dynamics-Us. 2020-09-01. DOI : 10.1063/4.0000034.Intense microsecond electron pulses from a Schottky emitter
Applied Physics Letters. 2020-06-09. DOI : 10.1063/5.0009442.Time-resolved formation of excited atomic and molecular states in XUV-induced nanoplasmas in ammonia clusters
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2020-04-21. DOI : 10.1039/d0cp00669f.Tracking attosecond electronic coherences using phase-manipulated extreme ultraviolet pulses
Nature Communications. 2020-02-14. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-14721-2.Real-time observation of jumping and spinning nanodroplets
Structural Dynamics. 2020-01-14. DOI : 10.1063/1.5135699.Ultrafast relaxation of photoexcited superfluid He nanodroplets
Nature Communications. 2020-01-08. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-13681-6.In Situ Observation of Coulomb Fission of Individual Plasmonic Nanoparticles
ACS Nano. 2019-09-19. DOI : 10.1021/acsnano.9b06664.Real-Time Dynamics of the Formation of Hydrated Electrons upon Irradiation of Water Clusters with Extreme Ultraviolet Light
Physical Review Letters. 2019-04-04. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.133001.Three-Dimensional Shapes of Spinning Helium Nanodroplets
Physical Review Letters. 2018-12-17. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.255301.Helium-induced electronic transitions in photo-excited Ba+–Hen exciplexes
The Journal of Chemical Physics. 2018-04-14. DOI : 10.1063/1.5022863.Harmonium: An Ultrafast Vacuum Ultraviolet Facility
Chimia. 2017. DOI : 10.2533/chimia.2017.268.Dynamics of photoexcited Ba+ cations in 4He nanodroplets
Journal of Chemical Physics. 2016. DOI : 10.1063/1.4942850.Migration of surface excitations in highly-excited nanosystems probed by intense resonant XUV radiation
Journal of Physics B : atomic and molecular physics. 2015. DOI : 10.1088/0953-4075/48/24/244011.Excitation of Sodium Atoms Attached to Helium Nanodroplets: The 3p <-- 3s Transition Revisited
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2015. DOI : 10.1021/jp511885t.The Low Density Matter (LDM) beamline of FERMI: optical layout and first commissioning
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2015. DOI : 10.1107/S1600577515005743.Picosecond solvation dynamics of alkali cations in superfluid 4He nanodroplets
Physical Review B. 2014. DOI : 10.1063/1.1416492.Elementary Excitations of Superfluid Helium Droplets Probed by Ion Spectroscopy
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2014. DOI : 10.1021/jz501530e.Nucleation of quantized vortex rings in 4He nanodroplets
Journal of Chemical Physics. 2014. DOI : 10.1063/1.4870245.Dynamics of Excited Sodium Atoms Attached to Helium Nanodroplets
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2014. DOI : 10.1021/jp4121996.A Novel Collective Autoionization Process Observed in Electron Spectra of He Clusters
Physical Review Letters. 2014. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.073401.Collective Autoionization in Multiply-Excited Systems: A novel ionization process observed in Helium Nanodroplets
Nature Scientific Reports. 2014. DOI : 10.1038/srep03621.Critical Landau velocity in helium nanodroplets
Physical Review Letters. 2013. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.153002.Translational dynamics of photoexcited atoms in 4He nanodroplets: the case of silver
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2013. DOI : 10.1039/C3CP52221K.EUV ionization of pure He nanodroplets: Mass-correlated photoelectron imaging, Penning ionization and electron energy-loss spectra
Journal of Chemical Physics. 2013. DOI : 10.1063/1.4818531.Charge transfer and Penning ionization of dopants in or on helium nanodroplets exposed to EUV radiation
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2013. DOI : 10.1021/jp401424w.A modular end-station for atomic, molecular, and cluster science at the Low Density Matter beamline of FERMI@Elettra
Journal of Physics B : atomic and molecular physics. 2013. DOI : 10.1088/0953-4075/46/16/164007.Barium Ions and Helium Nanodroplets: Solvation and Desolvation
Journal of Chemical Physics. 2012. DOI : 10.1063/1.4743900.Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Barium-doped Helium Nanodroplets
Journal of Chemical Physics. 2012. DOI : 10.1063/1.3701565.Desorption of alkali atoms from 4He nanodroplets
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2012. DOI : 10.1039/C2CP23526A.Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions in Helium Nanodroplets
Journal of Chemical Physics. 2012. DOI : 10.1063/1.3678011.Electronic Spectroscopy of Aniline Ions Embedded in Helium Nanodroplets
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2011. DOI : 10.1021/jz200632s.Unusual Rydberg System Consisting of a Positively Charged Helium Nanodroplet with an Orbiting Electron
Physical Review Letters. 2011. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.083401.Spectroscopy on Rydberg states of sodium atoms on the surface of helium nanodroplets
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2011. DOI : 10.1021/jp111146n.IR spectroscopy of molecular ions by nonthermal ion ejection from helium nanodroplets
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2010. DOI : 10.1021/ja1034655.Absorption spectroscopy of adenine, 9-methyladenine, and 2-aminopurine in helium nanodroplets
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2010. DOI : 10.1039/C0CP00746C.High-resolution excitation and absorption spectroscopy of gas-phase p-coumaric acid: unveiling an elusive chromophore
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2010. DOI : 10.1021/ja101668v.Photodynamics of Li-doped Helium Nanodroplets
2009Conformational flexibility of a rotaxane thread probed by electronic spectroscopy in helium nanodroplets
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2009. DOI : 10.1021/ja905973v.A New Sensitive Detection Scheme for Helium Nanodroplet Isolation Spectroscopy: Application to Benzene
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2008. DOI : 10.1039/b808211a.Photodissociation of Alkyl Iodides in Helium Nanodroplets III: Recombination
Journal of Chemical Physics. 2007. DOI : 10.1063/1.2767263.Photodissociation of Alkyl Iodides in Helium Nanodroplets II: Solvation Dynamics
Journal of Chemical Physics. 2007. DOI : 10.1063/1.2767262.Photodissociation of Alkyl Iodides in Helium Nanodroplets I: Kinetic Energy Transfer
Journal of Chemical Physics. 2007. DOI : 10.1063/1.2767261.Excited State Dynamics of Ag Atoms in Helium Nanodroplets
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2007. DOI : 10.1021/jp0716278.Spectroscopy on species in helium droplets using an ionization-based detection system
2005A Simple Procedure to Extract Speed Distributions from Ion Images with a Large Background Contribution
Review of Scientific Instruments. 2005. DOI : 10.1063/1.2130941.Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Doped Helium Droplets
Physical Review Letters. 2005. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.163401.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering