VIDEO - Webinar series: Let's Dive into the Atoms! - How to exploit chemical sensitivity in X-ray spectroscopy, with Pieter Glatzel
VIDEO - Webinar series: Let's Dive into the Atoms! - How to exploit chemical sensitivity in X-ray spectroscopy, with Pieter Glatzel
Matter absorbs and scatters X-rays. Spectral analysis of the X-rays reveals a wealth of information about the electronic structure of the X-ray absorbing element (the analyte). Pieter Glatzel explains the mechanisms that lead to the chemical sensitivity and show how they influence the spectral shape. In particular, photon-in/photon-out spectroscopy (RIXS, XES, HERFD) is explained and it is shown how it adds a dimension to conventional X-ray absorption spectroscopy.
Speaker: Pieter Glatzel, HERFD-XAS and RIXS at the ESRF
Webinar organisers: Veronica Lattanzi, Biochemistry, Lund University and Anurag Kawde, LINXS.
Biography
Pieter is a scientist at the ESRF where he is leading the electronic structure, magnetism and dynamics group. He is also in charge of beamline ID26 that is dedicated to photon-in/photon-out spectroscopy. He studied physics in Mainz, Glasgow and Hamburg and worked with Steve Cramer and Uwe Bergmann at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to develop X-ray emission spectroscopy. After a post-doctoral stay in Frank de Groot's group in Utrecht he joined the ESRF in 2004. His scientific interest focuses around developing X-ray spectroscopic techniques for the study electronic structure and local coordination. Pieter was chair of the international X-ray absorption society (2015-2018).