Dr. Cecilia Gentle!
Congratulations, Cecilia! You did it! As the first student of the van der Veen lab, Cecilia passed her PhD defense last Friday. We wish...


First DETEM results published in Nature Communications!
Congratulations to Omid and the whole DETEM team for working hard to get our first results published in Nature Communications. We are...

The DETEM team finds nanosecond time zero!
An other milestone is achieved. The DETEM team has found the temporal overlap between our two nanosecond lasers. Congratulations!

Cecilia's JPCC paper has been selected for the ACS Editors' Choice
After an ultrafast review process, Cecilia's paper has been published online (link) and has been selected for the ACS Editors' Choice....


Our spectrometer is getting installed!
Our DETEM is being upgraded with a Gatan Image Filter (GIF) and EELS spectrometer. We are facing a couple of hickups, including a bad...
Welcome Oliver and Jack!
Our team is strengthened by Oliver Lin from UCLA and Jack Burke from UVM. Oliver will work on light-induced dynamics in photovoltaic...

The chancellor visits the van der Veen lab DETEM!
We were honored and excited to present our Dynamic Environmental TEM to our chancellor Robert J. Jones! The chancellor was visiting to...


Renske attends the 31st Packard Meeting in Monterey
The 2018 Packard Fellows at the Monterey Bay aquarium.

Henry wins the 2019 ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry
Henry was selected as the awardee of the 2019 ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry for the University of Illinois at...