Edwin Kukk
Professor, Head of Materials Research Laboratory
ekukk@utu.fi +358 29 450 4281 +358 50 339 6892 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku |
Synchrotron radiation; free-electron-lasers; ion mass spectroscopy; electron spectroscopy; coincidence spectroscopy; molecular dynamics; photoionization; photodissociation; ultrafast processes; femtochemistry; radiation damage; molecular structure;
My research is focussed on fundamental studies of the interaction of small quantum systems (such as molecules, multimers of biomolecules, small clusters) with light -- x-rays and ionizing UV radiation.The ultrafast processes that occur in the femtosecond-scale following the absorption of energy are the key for understanding many phenomena such as radiation damage in DNA and other biomolecules, light-activated processes (such as vision or many catalytic processes) but also the action and efficiency of radiosensitizing agents in cancer therapy.
Our research is based on advanced spectroscopic methods such as multiparticle coincidence spectroscopy, actively utilizing large international infrastructures: SACLA free-electron laser in Japan, EuXFEL in Germany, MAX-IV synchrotron in Sweden. We are also active in designing and building new instruments for these facilities. The research is carried out withing the framework of large international collaborations, closely involving also theoretical calculations and modeling.
- Fragmentation Patterns of Radiosensitizers Metronidazole and Nimorazole upon Valence Ionization (2020)
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gas-phase endstation of electron, ion and coincidence spectroscopies for diluted samples at the FinEstBeAMS beamline of the MAXIV 1.5GeV storage ring (2020)
- Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Multi-particle momentum correlations extracted using covariance methods on multiple-ionization of diiodomethane molecules by soft-X-ray free-electron laser pulses (2020)
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Operando high-temperature near-ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and impedance spectroscopy study of Ni - Ce0.9Gd0.1O2-δ solid oxide fuel cell anode (2020)
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Opportunities for Two-Color Experiments in the Soft X-ray Regime at the European XFEL (2020)
- Applied Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Time-resolved dynamics of thiophene dication - probing parent molecule survival times and multi-step dissociation processes of cyclic molecules by free-electron-laser experiments combined with theoretical simulations (2020)
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Controlling NO Production Upon Valence Ionization of Nitroimidazoles (2019)
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Coulomb implosion of tetrabromothiophene observed under multiphoton ionization by free-electron-laser soft-x-ray pulses (2019)
- Physical Review A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Full-dimensional theoretical description of vibrationally resolved valence-shell photoionization of H2O (2019)
- Structural Dynamics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Photo-ionization and fragmentation of Sc3N@C-80 following excitation above the Sc K-edge (2019)
- Journal of Chemical Physics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Progress in development of a new luminescence setup at the FinEstBeAMS beamline of the MAX IV laboratory (2019)
- Radiation Measurements
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Real-time observation of X-ray-induced intramolecular and interatomic electronic decay in CH2I2 (2019)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Roadmap on photonic, electronic and atomic collision physics: I. Light-matter interaction (2019)
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Synaptic and Fast Switching Memristance in Porous Silicon-Based Structures (2019)
- Nanomaterials
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Two colors at the SASE3 line of the European XFEL: Project scope and first measurements (2019) Proceedings of the 39th International Free-Electron Laser Conference Serkez S., Geloni G., Gerasimova N., Grünert J., Karabekyan S., Koch A., Laksman J., Maltezopoulos T., Mazza T., Meyer M., Tomin S., Decking W., Froehlich L., Kocharyan V., Kot Y., Saldin E., Schneidmiller E., Scholz M., Yurkov M., Zagorodnov I., Huttula M., Kukk E.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Intense Laser Fields (2019)
- Physical Review Letters
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Energy Transfer into Molecular Vibrations and Rotations by Recoil in Inner-Shell Photoemission (2018)
- Physical Review Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Following the Birth of a Nanoplasma Produced by an Ultrashort Hard-X-Ray Laser in Xenon Clusters (2018)
- Physical Review X
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fragmentation of imidazole, pyrimidine and purine induced by core ionization: Significance of small-scale chemical environment (2018)
- Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Near ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron - and impedance spectroscopy study of NiO - Ce0.9Gd0.1O2-δ anode reduction using a novel dual-chamber spectroelectrochemical cell (2018)
- Journal of Power Sources
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)