Contribution to a book

The myxoma virus has become of interest in human medicine in the last two decades as it has the ability to infect many types of human cancer cells and is being used as a platform to develop viro-therapeutic agents that suppress aggressive and damaging immune responses and inflammation. Furthermore, the myxoma virus encodes proteins that have strong immunosuppressive effects, and several of the myxoma virus-encoded immunomodulators are being developed to treat systemic inflammatory syndromes such as cardiovascular disease and transplant rejection. [...]

The field of structural biology focuses on determining and studying the structures of macromolecules in order to understand how three-dimensional shape dictates function at the molecular level. There are a variety of experimental tools that can be used to determine protein structures, and each technique has its strengths and weaknesses. [...]

Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is a powerful method for the structural analysis of macromolecular solutions, allowing one to study the structure of native particles and complexes and to rapidly analyze structural changes in response to variations in external conditions. On synchrotrons, SAXS benefits enormously from the high brilliance of the radiation, providing a considerable advantage for the timescale of measurements (allowing also for time-resolved experiments) and the small amounts of material required. [...]

One of the intriguing problems of modern magnetism is unravelling the non-equilibrium spin dynamics following laser excitation on the nanometer length scale. In this work the ultrafast magnetic behavior of thin Co/Pt multilayers is studied by resonant magnetic SAXS in transmission geometry [...]

For decades, copper has been introduced in CdTe devices to improve overall performance (open circuit voltage, fill factor, and series resistance). While multiple articles have reported on Cu-based defects, very little is known about how the local structure around the copper atom affects electrical performance [...]

For decades, copper has been used to improve the performance of cadmium telluride thin film solar cells. However, it has also been shown to be the main cause of metastability in CdTe [...]

The lattice formulation is a complete and unambiguous formulation of QCD. In principle it thus needs no tools beyond efficient Monte Carlo techniques [...]

The value of $α_s$($m_Z$) is determined from inclusive jet and di-jet cross sections in neutral-current deep-inelastic $ep$ scattering (DIS) measured at HERA by the H1 collaboration using next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) perturbative QCD predictions. Using inclusive jet and di-jet data together, the strong coupling constant is determined to be $α_s$($m_Z$) = 0.1157(20)$_{exp}$(29)$_{th}$. [...]

We present a concept of a novel redundancy solution for the master oscillator of the European-XFEL facility. The solution implements automated switching between identical copies of the reference signal generation chains. [...]

FLASH, a soft X-ray free-electron laser facility, is currently subject to several ongoing and planned upgrade activities. The underlying control and synchronization systems also have to keep up with the changing requirements. [...]