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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have you ever been caught in a speed trap with your car? Well, something similar happened to molecules in our lab… Donato could determine the speed of single molecules on Ag(111) and how they are affected by atomic defects in the surface. Have a look on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Matthew made it into Science! The first measurement of the „cone of reaction“ by controlled collisions of single molecules on a corrugated surface, well done! -> www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We have an OPEN PHD POSITION! Please apply if you’re interested (or forward to anyone who could be)

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Good start in the new year! Ken just got his JPC paper out, congratulations! If you are interested in how a rather simple electrospray setup can be used to deposit large molecules in a clean manner, have a look on pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

We had some tasty „Glühwein“ before our Christmas dinner in downtown Graz - chilly! Merry Christmas!

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Thanks to Martin Švec (www.fzu.cz/en/people/mg...) from the Czech Academy of Sciences who gave a fantastic seminar about his research on photophysics with SPM - impressive experiments!

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

We welcome Sana Younis to the group, who recently started her PhD. She is from Pakistan and holds an MPhil in Physical Chemistry from Quaid-i-Azam University, where she worked on developing and optimizing electrochemical sensors. Glad to have you with us, Sana!

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

#journalclub Prof. Leonhard Grill shared a paper which introduces ULEPD—a photoelectron diffraction method with ~100 fs resolution. It’s ideal for ultrathin heterosystems and reveals both structural and electronic dynamics via trARPES. Read via: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.226201

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Thank you to Christoph Heil from the TU Graz (@tugraz.bsky.social) for showing us how they use supercomputers to predict promising high Tc superconductors! #seminar

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

One week ago Peter Woitke from the Space Research Institute (@iwf-oeaw.bsky.social) introduced us to how they use modern astronomical observations to model the evolution of protoplanetary disks. Thank you for the interesting talk! #seminar

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Thanks to Peter Jacobson (@spmqt.bsky.social) from the University of Queensland for visiting and showing us his team's exciting research on the epitaxial growth of hyperdoped Ga:Ge superconductors. #SPMQT_Lab #seminar

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#seminar Thank you to Vladimir Starostin (@unituebingen.bsky.social) for showing us how to solve the Inverse Problem in scattering physics by using Machine Learning. #MachineLearning #X-rayScattering #GravitationalWaves

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We welcome Asma Khizar to the group who recently started her PhD. She is from Pakistan and has a Master's in Applied Physics from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, and worked on optimizing electrode materials for hybrid supercacitors. Welcome Asma! 🙂 #STM #PhD

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Thanks to Chun-Liang Lin from NYCU University Taiwan (scholar.nycu.edu.tw/en/persons/chun-liang-lin) for visiting our labs and his interesting talk in our seminar! #seminar

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

We have a position with permanent perspective available in our group!

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

#journalclub Today’s discussion focused on: How stacked-perovskite photodetectors overcome CMOS limitations to enable next-gen imaging performance? Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

⸻ 🎉 Please welcome our new PhD student, Nikita Osipov! 👋 He completed his Master’s at Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he worked on photoswitchable complexes with paramagnetic metals based on spiropyrans. We’re excited to have him on board! 🚀 #PhDLife #SurfaceScience #STM

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🎓 Today, Leopold Widmer presented his bachelor thesis! His research explores how STM tips expand under continuous-wave (CW) laser illumination in the ambient STM junction — a fascinating intersection of optics and nanotechnology. Well done, Leopold! 👏🔬💡 #BachelorThesis #Nanotech #STM

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#seminar One week ago Ulrich Höfer (@unimarburg.bsky.social @uniregensburg.bsky.social) came to Graz to present us time-resolved photoemission and how it allows to track electron motion in momentum space on ultrafast time scales. Thank you for this inspiring talk!

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#seminar Thanks to Gaurab Ganguly @univie.ac.at for recently sharing his group's progress on theoretical methods to better understand the storage and release of energy by photoexcited molecules

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

#seminar Thank you to Professor Jan Řezáč @iocbprague.bsky.social‬ for sharing the progress his group is making toward combining #quantumchemistry ⚛️ and #machinelearning 🤖 to model protein-ligand interactions 👨🏻‍🔬 Check out his paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs....

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

#journalclub 👩‍💻 Have you ever created a #neuralnetwork 🧠 using ChatGPT? 🤖 Prof. Kowarik gave us a tutorial 👨‍🏫 on how this can be done! #AI #coding Check out his course @uni-graz.at: 646.511 AI / Machine Learning for Data Analysis

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

#journalclub Switching site selectivity ⚗️ Prof. Boese shared a paper where strong coupling of specific vibrational modes to an optical cavity greatly affected reaction outcome: the disfavored product became favored inside the cavity! Check it out at @science.org: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

#research Do your PhD in our group! 🧑‍🔬 Experiment with molecular motors and switches using #STM and #AFM 🔬 Study electrical and chemical properties using #PES 🔆 Teach the next generation of students 👩‍🏫 #YoungMinds Deadline: 29/05/2025 Apply @universityofgraz.bsky.social: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs

Opening for a PhD position within our group. Application deadline by May 29, 2025.

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#literaturereview Today Paul presented a literature summary on the state-of-the-art of the field of #ultrafastSTM 🔬⏱️ If you're curious about where Paul's research is headed, check out nano-lab.uni-graz.at/en/amos-proj... #amosproject @universityofgraz.bsky.social

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

#seminar Thank you to Prof. Peter Saalfrank @unipotsdam.bsky.social giving us an enlightening 💡 presentation on light-driven processes in molecules!

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#journalclub Do robot fruit flies 🤖 dream of electric oranges 🍊 ? Today we discussed an article where fruit flies are harnassed as "living microrobots", showing precise navigation, coordinated swarm 'writing', and controlled cargo transport! Check it out at @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

#seminar Thank you, Akitoshi Shiotari (@fhi-mpg.bsky.social), for the recent inspiring talk on plasmon-induced reactions in the STM junction! @natureportfolio.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #STM

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

How does water behave at the interface of oil droplets? Today’s journal club is; www.nature.com/articles/s41... They showed developing Raman-MCR spectroscopy to isolate interfacial water signals in emulsions. Our colleagues compared this article in terms of different aspects.

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Hello from the #DPGR25 @uniregensburg.bsky.social 👋 Come talk with us 🤗 Mon: imharaprasad.bsky.social - 7 pm in P4 Tue: Matthew - 11:30 am in H24 Ilias - 2:30 pm in H11 Ken - 6 pm in P2 Grant - 6 pm in P2 Paul - 6 pm in P2 @henriksiboni.bsky.social - 6 pm in P4 Wed: Bensu - 6 pm in P2 See you

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Celebrating Dr. Shilpa Panchami Raj! 🎓✨ Huge congratulations to Shilpa Panchami Raj on successfully defending her PhD! Her dedication and hard work have been truly inspiring. We wish herall the best in her next chapter! 🥂🎉 #PhDDefense #Graduation #SuccessStory

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Please welcome our master student Ève who is doing an internship with the ambient #STM 👩‍🔬 She usually studies at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, but you can meet her this March at the #DPG2025 Spring Meeting. Watch the full video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhXH... @uni-graz.at

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

#JournalClub #MolecularMotors Grant presenting an interesting molecular motors paper at the Journal Club 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#journalclub Electrochemistry is great for green chemistry, but how do you choose the right electrolyte? ⚡ You calculate 16 properties with DFT and then use principal component analysis to reduce the relevant dimensions to 3 💡 @unimainz.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

#seminar Steven de Feyter (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) presenting his group's work on self-assembly at the solid-liquid interface 🔬 In 2020, they created a 2D molecular network and then deposited a different molecule in the cavities 💡 @pubs.acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #STM

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

#journalclub Do metals get harder when heated?! 🤯 Yes, if you use microbalistic impact testing to achieve strain rates >10^6 1/s. The authors (@mitofficial.bsky.social) explain that the hardening is caused by drag from hot phonons. Had you expected this? @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

#JournalClub First-time recording of Ullmann polymerization using high speed STM at variable temperatures! 🎞️ They use DFT to show that Cu adatom diffusion is crucial. Watch their movie @pubs.acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... @universityofgraz.bsky.social @henriksiboni.bsky.social

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Please welcome postdoc Haraprasad Mandal! 👨‍🔬 He did his PhD at CSIR-IICT followed by a postdoc at University of Michigan in quantum-entangled spectroscopy 🥼 He now works here on ultrafast spectroscopy combined with STM 🔬 Meet him this March at the DPG 🤝 Latest paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Please welcome our new PhD student Paul Schöngrunder 🥳 He did his master thesis with Ulrike Diebold (TU Wien) and now aims to study molecular motors at high resolution in space and time ⏳ Meet him at the DPG Spring Meeting 🙌 nano-lab.uni-graz.at/en/amos-proj... @universityofgraz.bsky.social

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Thank you to Maximilian Skoda for presenting the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source in a very approachable way 👏 Neutron reflectometry is like seing the inside of a cake with cutting it 🍰 His group for instance studies the porosity of asymmetrical lipid bilayers 🦠 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Merry Christmas and happy New Year! 🎆 To kick off the year, the candidates for our tenure track professorship will come next week to give a ½ hour lecture for students and a 1 hour research talk 👨‍🏫 But how do you identify a good professor? 🤔 @universityofgraz.bsky.social @henriksiboni.bsky.social

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#seminar How can we better solve nanostructures from scattering data? @andysanker.bsky.social et al. uses deep generative models on pair-distribution functions. You can do it too here: huggingface.co/spaces/AndyS... What do you think? 👏 @ox.ac.uk In Digital Discovery: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

New group picture! 🖼️ Can you spot all the differences from the old one? 👵🏼 @universityofgraz.bsky.social @henriksiboni.bsky.social

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Do your PhD in our group! 🧑‍🔬 Experiment with single molecules on surfaces using #STM and #AFM 🔬 and measure chemical properties with photoemission spectroscopy #PES 🔆 You will also be teaching students 👩‍🏫 Deadline: 18/12 2024 Apply @universityofgraz.bsky.social: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/955a...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thank you to Monika Schied who visited us for two weeks of experiments 👩‍🔬 She defended her PhD in our group in 2021 followed by a postdoc at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste 🇮🇹 She now studies electron dynamics at CNR-IOM 👏 Read her recent book chapter: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Grill Lab @grilllab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Hello, we do single-molecule chemistry at the University of Graz, Austria #unigraz 👩‍🔬🧑‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ #SciTwitter We want to share our work and connect with you 🙌 We also showcase our seminars and #journalclub Pictured: The award ceremony for our @natureportfolio.bsky.social paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The research group is standing together at the award ceremony. They are dressed formally, smiling, and standing in front of the Austrian, Styrian and EU flags.

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