

Thomas joins the group!
Thomas Rossi is joining our lab as a postdoc to work on ultrafast optical and X-ray spectroscopy of photovoltaic nanomaterials. He...

The DETEM team finds time zero!
Omid, Allan, Ryan, Eric and Frank were able to find the exact temporal overlap between laser and electron pulses. The difference image...


Yuanheng (Henry) gave a talk at the ECI-ACS Undergraduate Conference, well done!
Yuanheng (Henry) gave a talk on his work with Cecilia on simulating charge transfer dynamics of ZnTe/CdSe core/shell quantum dots at the...
New Group Members!
The van der Veen group has added two new graduate students this semester: Rachel Wallick from University of Maryland and Frank Alcorn...

van der Veen lab Achieves Pulsed Electrons in DETEM!
Dr. Omid Zandi and Allan Sykes produced a pulsed electron probe in the Dynamic Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope in MRL at...


Renske wins Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering!
Renske has won a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, a five-year, $875,000 grant to pursue research in the most innovative and...


Lab group outing at Adventures in Time and Space lab escape!
The van der Veen group and friends successfully escaped from the Artificial Intelligence themed lab escape in downtown Urbana.


Renske co-organizes a symposium at the Fall ACS Meeting in Boston
Josh Vura-Weis, Philippe Wernet and Renske organized the symposium entitled "Chemical Applications of Ultrafast X-ray/XUV Spectroscopy...


Renske gives a presentation at the Gordon Research Conference "Conductivity and Magnetism in Mo
Renske enjoyed her stay at Bryant University (Rhode Island) attending the GRC on Conductivity and Magnetism in Molecular Materials....


Van der Veen lab is part of a team that receives an NSF MRI grant!
We are proud to be the leading lab in a team that receives funding from NSF to purchase an electron energy-loss spectrometer that will be...