5th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy

Dr. Erik T. J. Nibbering

Head of Department C1,
Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Berlin Adlershof, Germany

Erik T. J. Nibbering was born in 1965 in Zaandam, The Netherlands, and attended high school in Amsterdam. In 1983, he started his undergraduate studies in chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he received his diploma in physical chemistry in 1988. During his Ph.D. studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, under the direction of Professor Douwe A. Wiersma (1988−1993), he investigated femtosecond optical dephasing and solvation dynamics in liquids. After a two-year stay at the Laboratoire d'Optique Appliqueé − E.N.S.T.A. − École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) with Prof. Dr. André Mysyrowicz, where he investigated nonlinear propagation phenomena of intense femtosecond laser pulses, he joined the Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie in Berlin, Germany, in 1995, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsaesser, becoming project leader in 1997 and department head in 2003. His current interests encompass generation of ultrafast light pulses and ultrafast spectroscopy of condensed matter. His recent efforts include ultrafast dynamics of hydrogen bonds in liquids and solutions, proton-transfer reactions in the condensed phase, conformational changes of molecular switches, and structural dynamics of biomolecular systems.