Raphael Jay
Researcher at Institutionen för fysik och astronomi; Röntgenfysik
- E-mail:
- raphael.jay@physics.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
- Postal address:
- Box 516
751 20 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-9607-8264
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Short presentation
I am a researcher in the Chemical and Bio-molecular Physics program, where I study the photochemistry of transition metal complexes. Specifically, I'm interested in understanding how the electronic structure of photochemically prepared reaction intermediates determines their catalytic activity. To this end, I use time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy to follow in time and space how transition metal catalysts mediate the formation and breaking of chemical bonds.
Biography
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2013
Master of Science in Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2015
PhD in Experimental Physics, Universität Potsdam and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany, 2015 - 2020, Title: “Principles of charge distribution and separation: The case of iron complexes probed by X-ray spectroscopy”
Awards:
Carl-Ramsauer-Price 2020 (awarded for outstanding doctoral thesis in physics and adjacent fields of research)
Publications
Selection of publications
- Tracking C–H activation with orbital resolution (2023)
- Photoinduced bond oscillations in ironpentacarbonyl give delayed synchronous bursts of carbonmonoxide release (2022)
- Capturing Atom-Specific Electronic Structural Dynamics of Transition-Metal Complexes with Ultrafast Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy (2022)
- Following Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Dynamics with Ligand and Spin Specificity Using Femtosecond Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering at the Nitrogen K-Edge (2021)
Recent publications
- Accessing metal-specific orbital interactions in C–H activation with resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (2024)
- Tracking C–H activation with orbital resolution (2023)
- A Δ-learning strategy for interpretation of spectroscopic observables (2023)
- Photoinduced bond oscillations in ironpentacarbonyl give delayed synchronous bursts of carbonmonoxide release (2022)
- From the Free Ligand to the Transition Metal Complex (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Accessing metal-specific orbital interactions in C–H activation with resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (2024)
- Tracking C–H activation with orbital resolution (2023)
- A Δ-learning strategy for interpretation of spectroscopic observables (2023)
- Photoinduced bond oscillations in ironpentacarbonyl give delayed synchronous bursts of carbonmonoxide release (2022)
- From the Free Ligand to the Transition Metal Complex (2022)
- Capturing Atom-Specific Electronic Structural Dynamics of Transition-Metal Complexes with Ultrafast Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy (2022)
- Cuts through the manifold of molecular H2O potential energy surfaces in liquid water at ambient conditions (2022)
- Metal-water covalency in the photo-aquated ferrocyanide complex as seen by multi-edge picosecond X-ray absorption (2022)
- Following Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Dynamics with Ligand and Spin Specificity Using Femtosecond Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering at the Nitrogen K-Edge (2021)
