Henrik Birkedal obtained his PhD with honors from Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, followed by a postdoc at University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2004, he was awarded a stipend to establish his own research program at Aarhus University where he is now full professor and leads a research group within biological and bioinspired materials. His research interests are diverse and span advanced structural characterization using synchrotron imaging, diffraction, fluorescence and scattering; bone biology; biomineralization; crystallization; bioinspired materials etc. He has…

Reactions of biological macromolecules span a wide time range, from femtosecond lifetimes of chemical intermediates to seconds or even longer for the overall reaction. The dynamic structures of the short-lived intermediates are extremely difficult to examine, although they are of critical relevance to understand the molecular mechanism at atomic level. To literally see how biomolecules work is therefore an objective for the biology and life science community in general. The strength of the European XFEL is its unique brilliance coupled…

The CoWork webinar series is dedicated to the exploitation of the coherence properties of X-rays for advanced materials characterization, with a special focus on inverse microscopy techniques, such as Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CDI), Ptychography and Holography. It is an introduction to Coherent X-ray imaging methods to facilitate the access to advanced microscopy techniques to new users and it welcomes all researchers intrigued by the spectacular coherence properties of X-rays produced at modern synchrotron sources – of which MAX IV is…