Doctoral Promotion Lena Worbs
17 October, 2022
Lena Worbs successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Toward cryogenic beams of nanoparticles and proteins” on Monday, 17th October 2022.
In her thesis, Lena worked on Improvements on the aerosol sample delivery methods for x-ray single-particle diffractive imaging experiments and made some significant progress toward the overall goal of imaging single proteins. Her work improves the understanding of the particle-beam formation for smaller nanoparticles using particle trajectory calculations and extend the particle-beam detection towards smaller nanoparticles using optical scattering. Another important achievement was generating a particle beam consisting of shock-frozen sub-100 nm particles, opening up the path toward a sample delivery setup that is capable of providing a pure particle beam for single-particle imaging experiments.
Lena had performed this research among others within the ERC grant "Controlling the Motion of Complex Molecules and Particles “COMOTION” at the Controlled Molecule Imaging group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science.
We at CMI wish Lena Worbs the very best for her future life and career.