Marcel Drabbels

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marcel.drabbels@epfl.ch +41 21 693 30 22 http://lnd.epfl.ch/drabbels

EPFL SB ISIC LUXS
CH G0 613 (Bâtiment CH)
Station 6
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 30 22
Office: CH G0 613
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EPFL SB SCGC-GE
BCH 3311 (Batochime UNIL)
Av. François-Alphonse Forel 3
1015 Lausanne

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Office: CH G0 613
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EPFL SB ISIC LUXS
CH G0 613 (Bâtiment CH)
Station 6
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 30 22
Office: CH G0 613
EPFL > SB > SB-SCGC > SCGC-ENS

Web site: Web site: https://www.epfl.ch/schools/sb/scgc/

EPFL SB ISIC LUXS
CH G0 613 (Bâtiment CH)
Station 6
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 30 22
Office: CH G0 613
EPFL > VPA-AVP-DLE > AVP-DLE-EDOC > EDCH-GE

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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

Correction to: Electron diffraction of deeply supercooled water in no man’s land (Nature Communications, (2023), 14, 1, (2812), 10.1038/s41467-023-38520-7)

C. R. Krüger; N. J. Mowry; G. Bongiovanni; M. Drabbels; U. J. Lorenz

Nature communications. 2025. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-025-57398-1.

Marcel Drabbels

Adjunct Professor

Biography

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Correction to: Electron diffraction of deeply supercooled water in no man’s land (Nature Communications, (2023), 14, 1, (2812), 10.1038/s41467-023-38520-7)

Direct measurement of the critical cooling rate for the vitrification of water

Flash Melting Amorphous Ice

Shaped Laser Pulses for Microsecond Time-Resolved Cryo-EM: Outrunning Crystallization during Flash Melting

Fast viral dynamics revealed by microsecond time-resolved cryo-EM

Near-atomic resolution reconstructions from in situ revitrified cryo samples

Electron diffraction of deeply supercooled water in no man’s land

Diffraction imaging of light induced dynamics in xenon-doped helium nanodroplets

Microsecond melting and revitrification of cryo samples with a correlative light-electron microscopy approach

Visualizing Nanoscale Dynamics with Time-resolved Electron Microscopy

Microsecond melting and revitrification of cryo samples with a correlative light-electron microscopy approach

Microsecond melting and revitrification of cryo samples: protein structure and beam-induced motion

Accurate time zero determination in an ultrafast transmission electron microscope without energy filter

Microsecond melting and revitrification of cryo samples

The fragmentation mechanism of gold nanoparticles in water under femtosecond laser irradiation

Rapid melting and revitrification as an approach to microsecond time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy

Ultrafast Resonant Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Quantum Fluid Dynamics

Evolution and ion kinetics of a XUV-induced nanoplasma in ammonia clusters

High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy with Bright Microsecond Electron Pulses

Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Fast Nanoscale Dynamics with Bright Microsecond Electron Pulses

Characterization of a time-resolved electron microscope with a Schottky field emission gun

Intense microsecond electron pulses from a Schottky emitter

Time-resolved formation of excited atomic and molecular states in XUV-induced nanoplasmas in ammonia clusters

Tracking attosecond electronic coherences using phase-manipulated extreme ultraviolet pulses

Real-time observation of jumping and spinning nanodroplets

Ultrafast relaxation of photoexcited superfluid He nanodroplets

In Situ Observation of Coulomb Fission of Individual Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Three-Dimensional Shapes of Spinning Helium Nanodroplets

Helium-induced electronic transitions in photo-excited Ba+–Hen exciplexes

Harmonium: An Ultrafast Vacuum Ultraviolet Facility

Dynamics of photoexcited Ba+ cations in 4He nanodroplets

Migration of surface excitations in highly-excited nanosystems probed by intense resonant XUV radiation

The Low Density Matter (LDM) beamline of FERMI: optical layout and first commissioning

Excitation of Sodium Atoms Attached to Helium Nanodroplets: The 3p <-- 3s Transition Revisited

Collective Autoionization in Multiply-Excited Systems: A novel ionization process observed in Helium Nanodroplets

Dynamics of Excited Sodium Atoms Attached to Helium Nanodroplets

Picosecond solvation dynamics of alkali cations in superfluid 4He nanodroplets

Elementary Excitations of Superfluid Helium Droplets Probed by Ion Spectroscopy

A Novel Collective Autoionization Process Observed in Electron Spectra of He Clusters

Nucleation of quantized vortex rings in 4He nanodroplets

Charge transfer and Penning ionization of dopants in or on helium nanodroplets exposed to EUV radiation

Translational dynamics of photoexcited atoms in 4He nanodroplets: the case of silver

Critical Landau velocity in helium nanodroplets

A modular end-station for atomic, molecular, and cluster science at the Low Density Matter beamline of FERMI@Elettra

EUV ionization of pure He nanodroplets: Mass-correlated photoelectron imaging, Penning ionization and electron energy-loss spectra

Desorption of alkali atoms from 4He nanodroplets

Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions in Helium Nanodroplets

Barium Ions and Helium Nanodroplets: Solvation and Desolvation

Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Barium-doped Helium Nanodroplets

Spectroscopy on Rydberg states of sodium atoms on the surface of helium nanodroplets

Unusual Rydberg System Consisting of a Positively Charged Helium Nanodroplet with an Orbiting Electron

Electronic Spectroscopy of Aniline Ions Embedded in Helium Nanodroplets

Absorption spectroscopy of adenine, 9-methyladenine, and 2-aminopurine in helium nanodroplets

High-resolution excitation and absorption spectroscopy of gas-phase p-coumaric acid: unveiling an elusive chromophore

IR spectroscopy of molecular ions by nonthermal ion ejection from helium nanodroplets

Conformational flexibility of a rotaxane thread probed by electronic spectroscopy in helium nanodroplets

Photodynamics of Li-doped Helium Nanodroplets

A New Sensitive Detection Scheme for Helium Nanodroplet Isolation Spectroscopy: Application to Benzene

Photodissociation of Alkyl Iodides in Helium Nanodroplets II: Solvation Dynamics

Photodissociation of Alkyl Iodides in Helium Nanodroplets I: Kinetic Energy Transfer

Photodissociation of Alkyl Iodides in Helium Nanodroplets III: Recombination

Excited State Dynamics of Ag Atoms in Helium Nanodroplets

A Simple Procedure to Extract Speed Distributions from Ion Images with a Large Background Contribution

Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Doped Helium Droplets

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