To celebrate a successful year, the group enjoyed a nice Glühwein at the Christmas markets in Berlin. Merry Xmas everyone and happy new year!

We would like to welcome Dr Tao Yang who has just joined as a postdoc in our group. He will be working on the development of a phase-resolved SHG microscope and its application to 2D excitonic materials and thin molecular films.

We have a new archive paper led by the group of Roland Netz wherein we disentangle the electric and magnetic multipole contributions to the SFG spectra from the air-water interface. This work shows the importance of including electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole contributions for the correct assignment of the spectral line-shapes. You can read more here.

We have a new archive paper wherein we revise the current understanding of the molecular structure at the air-water interface by demonstrating that the molecular twist angle is just as important as the tilt angle in defining the preferential molecular orientation. This is achieved by applying depth-resolved SFG-DFG spectroscopy in combination with MD simulations performed by the group of Roland Netz to probe the H-O-H bending mode and characterise the layer-dependent structural motifs at the interface. You can read more here.

Our recent collaborative work on using SFG microscopy to image CVD-grown hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) monolayers was presented at ECONOS 2025 in Meudon, France. It was great to see a wide range of talks and posters and have thrilling discussions with our colleagues in the nonlinear optical spectroscopy community from all across Europe.