Support for outstanding talents

1 March 2023

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Antonia Freibert is a mathematician and chemist with a strong interest in physics.

Antonia Freibert has been awarded a scholarship from the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation. Freibert is conducting research as a doctoral student in Prof. Nils Huse's Condensed Phases Dynamics Group at the Institute of Nanostructure and Solid-State Physics at Universität Hamburg

The Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Research, established in 2004, supports talented young female scientists with children to give them the freedom and mobility they need to pursue a scientific career. The foundation says it wants to help prevent outstanding talent from being lost to scientific research. It is aimed at female doctoral and postdoctoral students in a subject related to the experimental natural sciences or medicine.

Antonia Freibert conducts research as an associate doctoral student in Research Area C of the cluster. As a mathematician and chemist with a strong interest in physics, she studies the ultrafast dynamics of photo-excited solvated molecules with femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy theoretically and experimentally. Specifically, she develops full time-domain descriptions of X-ray absorption and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering that probe dynamic processes which help her understand measurements at free-electron lasers.