Stefan HAACKE

Stefan HAACKE

Professor, Ultrafast Optics and Nanophotonics (DON)Stefan.Haacke@ipcms.unistra.fr
Phone: /Office: 2029

Current and previous positions

Since 2004: Professor at Strasbourg University: IPCMS & Télécom Physique Strasbourg
2013-2017: Director of IPCMS
1999-2004: University of Lausanne Lausanne/EPFL, Physics Department, Ass. Prof.
1994-1999: Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech Lausanne (EPFL), Dept of Physics, Post-Doc.

Academic background

1999: Habilitation in Physics; EPFL
1994: PhD in Physics, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble
1990: M.Sc. Physics, TU Berlin

Other tasks

  • Guest scientist Max-Born-Institute Berlin
  • 2018-20 :  Coordinator of the Strasbourg “École Universitaire de Recherche” QMAT, an excellence integrated master& PhD program on Quantum Science and Nanomaterials.
  • 2017                Chairman of the 27th Int. Conf. on Photochemistry, in Strasbourg (520 participants).
  • Member and chairman of scientific boards of int. conferences (ICP, CLEO/QELS, SPIE Photonics Europe)
  • Since 2019        Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-School of Photonics – Karlsruhe IT.
  • Scientific evaluation for national & int. funding agencies (France, Germany, Hungary, Israel)

Current research topics

Molecular Physics in Condensed Phase, Photosensitive Proteins, Organic Nanostructures, Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Non-linear Optics

* Photoisomerization in retinal proteins & of biomimetic molecular switches: role of environment and vibrational coherence, ultrafast spectroscopy guiding femtosecond X-ray diffraction.

  • DFG-ANR Project “Femto-ASR” 11/2014 – 10/2018
  • ANR Project “PhotoMecha”;
    10/20-09/24, coord. J. Léonard
  • « Fs XPS of photo-isomerising molecules in liquid jets”, funded by icFRC and CNRS-EIA.

* Ultrafast spectroscopy of functional photo-physical processes in nanomaterials designed for energy conversion: Fe(II) complexes as photo-sensitizers, near-IR DSSCs.

Publications

For the latest papers see here: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-5554-2013

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E. Zvereva, J. Segarra-Marti, M. Marazzi, J. Brazard, A. Nenov, O. Weingart, J. Léonard, M. Garavelli, I. Rivalta, E. Dumont, X. Assfeld, S. Haacke, A. Monari, The effect of solvent relaxation in the ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy of solvated benzophenone, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 17 (2018) 323–331. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7pp00439g.
[1]
J. Zhang, J. Qin, M. Wang, Y. Bai, H. Zou, J.K. Keum, R. Tao, H. Xu, H. Yu, S. Haacke, B. Hu, Uniform Permutation of Quasi-2D Perovskites by Vacuum Poling for Efficient, High-Fill-Factor Solar Cells, Joule 3 (2019) 3061–3071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2019.09.020.
[1]
C. Zahn, M. Pastore, J.L.P. Lustres, P.C. Gros, S. Haacke, K. Heyne, Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy Resolving the Multiplicity of High-Spin Crossover States in Transition Metal Iron Complexes., Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (2024) 9347–9355. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c01637.
[1]
Q. Wei, R. Duan, Q. Zhang, L. Xie, R. Xia, Y. Yi, J. Léonard, S. Haacke, J. Cabanillas-Gonzalez, Y. Qian, W. Huang, Origin of Intramolecular Low-Threshold Amplified Spontaneous Emission, Advanced Optical Materials (2021) 2001956. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202001956.
[1]
M. Wang, H. Zou, J. Zhang, T. Wu, H. Xu, S. Haacke, B. Hu, Extremely Long Spin Lifetime of Light-Emitting States in Quasi-2D Perovskites through Orbit-Orbit Interaction, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11 (2020) 3647–3652. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00842.
[1]
K. Voltz, J. Léonard, P.T. Touceda, J. Conyard, Z. Chaker, A. Dejaegere, J. Godet, Y. Mély, S. Haacke, R.H. Stote, Quantitative sampling of conformational heterogeneity of a DNA hairpin using molecular dynamics simulations and ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy, Nucleic Acids Research 44 (2016) 3408–3419. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkw077.
[1]
P.T. Touceda, T. Gelot, O. Crégut, J. Léonard, S. Haacke, Time-Resolved Down-Conversion of 2-Aminopurine in a DNA Hairpin: Fluorescence Anisotropy and Solvent Effects, in: M. Chergui, A. Taylor, S. Cundiff, R. DeVivieRiedle, K. Yamagouchi (Eds.), EPJ Web of Conferences, 2013: p. 07022 /p.1–3. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134107022.
[1]
A.I. Skilitsi, D. Agathangelou, I. Shulov, J. Conyard, S. Haacke, Y. Mely, A. Klymchenko, J. Léonard, Ultrafast photophysics of the environment-sensitive 4[prime or minute]-methoxy-3-hydroxyflavone fluorescent dye, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20 (2018) 7885–7895. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CP08584B.
[1]
J. Segarra-Marti, E. Zvereva, M. Marazzi, J. Brazard, E. Dumont, X. Assfeld, S. Haacke, M. Garavelli, A. Monari, J. Léonard, I. Rivalta, Resolving the Singlet Excited State Manifold of Benzophenone by First-Principles Simulations and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 14 (2018) 2570–2585. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01208.
[1]
T. Schwartz, J.A. Hutchison, J. Léonard, C. Genet, S. Haacke, T.W. Ebbesen, Polariton Dynamics under Strong Light-Molecule Coupling, ChemPhysChem 14 (2013) 125–131. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201200734.
[1]
I. Schapiro, M. Gueye, M. Paolino, S. Fusi, G. Marchand, S. Haacke, M.E. Martin, M. Huntress, V.P. Vysotskiy, V. Veryazov, J. Léonard, M. Olivucci, Synthesis, spectroscopy and QM/MM simulations of a biomimetic ultrafast light-driven molecular motor, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 18 (2019) 2259–2269. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9pp00223e.
[1]
A. Ruff, E. Heyer, T. Roland, S. Haacke, R. Ziessel, S. Ludwigs, Electrochemical and optical properties of molecular triads based on triphenylamine, diketopyrrolopyrrole and boron-dipyrromethene, Electrochimica Acta 173 (2015) 847–859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2015.05.093.
[1]
T. Roland, V. Kemlin, J. Nillon, J.-S. Pelle, O. Crégut, J. Brazard, J. Léonard, S. Haacke, BOXCARS-geometry 2DES setup in the 300-340nm range with pulse-to-pulse phase correction at 50kHz, in: Cerullo, G and Ogilvie, J and Kartner, F and Khalil, M and Li, R (Ed.), XXI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA 2018 (UP 2018), E D P SCIENCES, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920501009.
[1]
T. Roland, G.H. Ramirez, J. Léonard, S. Méry, S. Haacke, Ultrafast broadband laser spectroscopy reveals energy and charge transfer in novel donor-acceptor triads for photovoltaic applications, in: Ye, C and Wang, ZL and Zhou, B (Ed.), Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2011: p. 012006 /p. 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/276/1/012006.
[1]
T. Roland, J. Léonard, G.H. Ramirez, S. Méry, O. Yurchenko, S. Ludwigs, S. Haacke, Sub-100 fs charge transfer in a novel donor-acceptor-donor triad organized in a smectic film, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14 (2012) 273–279. https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cp22122a.
[1]
T. Roland, L. Liu, E. Heyer, A. Ruff, S. Ludwigs, R. Ziessel, S. Haacke, Ultrafast Energy and Charge Transfer Processes in a Flexible Molecular Triad Designed for Organic Photovoltaics, in: Yamanouchi, I and Cundiff, S and DeVivieRiedle, R and KuwataGonokami, M and DiMauro, L (Ed.), Ultrafast Phenomena XIX, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, Okinawa, JAPAN, 7-11 juillet 2014, 2015: pp. 561–563. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13242-6_137.
[1]
T. Roland, E. Heyer, L. Liu, A. Rue, S. Ludwigs, R. Ziessel, S. Haacke, A Detailed Analysis of Multiple Photoreactions in a Light-Harvesting Molecular Triad with Overlapping Spectra by Utrafast Spectroscopy, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118 (2014) 24290–24301. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp507474r.
[1]
M. Polkehn, P. Eisenbrandt, H. Tamura, S. Haacke, S. Méry, I. Burghardt, Ultrafast excitonic and charge transfer dynamics in nanostructured organic polymer materials, in: Andrews, DL and Nunzi, JM and Ostendorf, A (Ed.), NANOPHOTONICS VI, SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, 1000 20TH ST, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98227-0010 USA, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2230314.
[1]
M. Polkehn, H. Tamura, P. Eisenbrandt, S. Haacke, S. Méry, I. Burghardt, Molecular Packing Determines Charge Separation in a Liquid Crystalline Bisthiophene–Perylene Diimide Donor–Acceptor Material, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7 (2016) 1327–1334. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00277.
[1]
M. Pastore, T. Duchanois, L. Liu, A. Monari, X. Assfeld, S. Haacke, P.C. Gros, Interfacial charge separation and photovoltaic efficiency in Fe(II)-carbene sensitized solar cells, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18 (2016) 28069–28081. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cp05535d.
[1]
Y. Orozco-Gonzalez, M. Manathunga, M. del C. Marin, D. Agathangelou, K.-H. Jung, F. Melaccio, N. Ferre, S. Haacke, K. Coutinho, S. Canuto, M. Olivucci, An Average Solvent Electrostatic Configuration Protocol for QM/MM Free Energy Optimization: Implementation and Application to Rhodopsin Systems, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 13 (2017) 6391–6404. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00860.
[1]
M. Olivucci, I. Schapiro, S. Haacke, J. Léonard, S. Fusi, R.R. Paccani, J. Briand, From computational photobiology to the design of vibrationally coherent molecular devices, in: ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2012: pp. 272-COMP.
[1]
J. Nillon, O. Crégut, C. Bressler, S. Haacke, 2 MHz Tunable Non Collinear Optical Parametric Amplifiers with Pulse Durations Down to 6 fs, in: Yamanouchi, I and Cundiff, S and DeVivieRiedle, R and KuwataGonokami, M and DiMauro, L (Ed.), Ultrafast Phenomena XIX, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, Okinawa, JAPAN, 7-11 juillet 2014, 2015: pp. 761–765. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13242-6_187.
[1]
J. Nillon, O. Crégut, C. Bressler, S. Haacke, Two MHz tunable non collinear optical parametric amplifiers with pulse durations down to 6 fs, Optics Express 22 (2014) 14964–14974. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.014964.
[1]
M. Ngueye, I. Schapiro, S. Fusi, S. Haacke, M. Olivucci, J. Léonard, Coherent Photoisomerization and Quantum Yield of Biomimetic Molecular Switches, in: 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-IQEC), IEEE, 2013.
[1]
W. Naim, V. Novelli, I. Nikolinakos, N. Barbero, I. Dzeba, F. Grifoni, Y. Ren, T. Alnasser, A. Velardo, R. Borrelli, S. Haacke, S.M. Zakeeruddin, M. Graetzel, C. Barolo, F. Sauvage, Transparent and Colorless Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Exceeding 75% Average Visible Transmittance, JACS AU 1 (2021) 409–426. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.1c00045.
[1]
A.R. Marri, B. Marekha, T. Penfold, S. Haacke, P.C. Gros, Towards panchromatic Fe(ii) NHC sensitizers via HOMO inversion, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Early access (2022). https://doi.org/10.1039/D2QI01903E.
[1]
M. del C. Marín, D. Agathangelou, Y. Orozco-Gonzalez, A. Valentini, Y. Kato, R. Abe-Yoshizumi, H. Kandori, A. Choi, K.-H. Jung, S. Haacke, M. Olivucci, Fluorescence Enhancement of a Microbial Rhodopsin via Electronic Reprogramming, Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (2019) 262–271. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b09311.
[1]
S. Maillot, A. Carvalho, J.-P. Vola, C. Boudier, Y. Mely, S. Haacke, J. Léonard, Out-of-equilibrium biomolecular interactions monitored by picosecond fluorescence in microfluidic droplets, Lab on a Chip 14 (2014) 1767–1774. https://doi.org/10.1039/C3LC51283E.
[1]
K. Magra, A. Frances-Monerris, C. Cebrian, A. Monari, S. Haacke, P.C. Gros, Bidentate Pyridyl-NHC Ligands: Synthesis, Ground and Excited State Properties of Their Iron(II) Complexes and the Role of the fac/mer Isomerism, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2022 (2022) e202100818. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202100818.
[1]
K. Magra, M. Darari, E. Domenichini, A. Frances-Monerris, C. Cebrian, M. Beley, M. Pastore, A. Monari, X. Assfeld, S. Haacke, P.C. Gros, Photophysical Investigation of Iron(II) Complexes Bearing Bidentate Annulated Isomeric Pyridine-NHC Ligands, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124 (2020) 18379–18389. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c03638.
[1]
K. Magra, E. Domenichini, A. Frances-Monerris, C. Cebrian, M. Beley, M. Darari, M. Pastore, A. Monari, X. Assfeld, S. Haacke, P.C. Gros, Impact of the fac/mer Isomerism on the Excited-State Dynamics of Pyridyl-carbene Fe(II) Complexes, Inorganic Chemistry 58 (2019) 5069–5081. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00138.
[1]
L. Liu, P. Eisenbrandt, T. Roland, M. Polkehn, P.-O. Schwartz, K. Bruchlos, B. Omiecienski, S. Ludwigs, N. Leclerc, E. Zaborova, J. Léonard, S. Méry, I. Burghardt, S. Haacke, Controlling Charge Separation and Recombination by Chemical Design in Donor-Acceptor Dyads, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18 (2016) 18536–18548. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CP00644B.
[1]
L. Liu, D. Agathangelou, T. Roland, O. Crégut, T. Duchanois, M. Beley, J. Léonard, P. Gros, S. Haacke, High sensitivity fluorescence up-conversion spectroscopy of (MLCT)-M-3 emission of metal-organic complexes, in: Cerullo, G and Ogilvie, J and Kartner, F and Khalil, M and Li, R (Ed.), XXI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA 2018 (UP 2018), E D P SCIENCES, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920509009.
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Q. Liu, Y.-C. Hsiao, M. Ahmadi, T. Wu, L. Liu, S. Haacke, H. Wang, B. Hu, N and p-type properties in organo-metal halide perovskites studied by Seebeck effects, Organic Electronics 35 (2016) 216–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2016.05.025.
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L. Liu, T. Duchanois, T. Etienne, A. Monari, M. Beley, X. Assfeld, S. Haacke, P.C. Gros, A new record excited state 3MLCT lifetime for metalorganic iron(ii) complexes, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18 (2016) 12550–12556. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CP01418F.
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P.-Y. Lin, T. Wu, M. Ahmadi, L. Liu, S. Haacke, T.-F. Guo, B. Hu, Simultaneously enhancing dissociation and suppressing recombination in perovskite solar cells, Nano Energy 36 (2017) 95–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.04.031.
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J. Li, T. Wu, J. Zhang, S. Haacke, F. Teng, B. Hu, Exploring Light Polarization Effects of Photovoltaic Actions in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites with Asymmetric and Symmetric Unit Structures, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12 (2020) 38054–38060. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c09276.
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J. Léonard, I. Schapiro, J. Briand, S. Fusi, R.R. Paccani, M. Olivucci, S. Haacke, Mechanistic Origin of the Vibrational Coherence Accompanying the Photoreaction of Biomimetic Molecular Switches, Chemistry-a European Journal 18 (2012) 15296–15304. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201201430.
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J. Léonard, D. Polli, G. Cerullo, M. Olivucci, S. Haacke, Influence of the Chemical Design on the Coherent Photoisomerization of Biomimetic Molecular Switches, in: M. Chergui, A. Taylor, S. Cundiff, R. DeVivieRiedle, K. Yamagouchi (Eds.), EPJ Web of Conferences, 2013: p. 05006 /p.1–3. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134105006.
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J. Léonard, J. Briand, S. Fusi, V. Zanirato, M. Olivucci, S. Haacke, Isomer-dependent vibrational coherence in ultrafast photoisomerization, New Journal of Physics 15 (2013) 105022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/10/105022.
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J. Léonard, T. Gelot, K. Torgasin, S. Haacke, Ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy of biologically relevant chromophores using type II difference frequency generation, in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2011: p. 012017 /p.1–5. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/277/1/012017.
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M. Kurucz, I. Nikolinakos, J. Soueiti, T. Baron, F. Grifoni, W. Naim, Y. Pellegrin, F. Sauvage, F. Odobel, S. Haacke, Transparent Near-IR Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Ultrafast Spectroscopy Reveals the Effects of Driving Force and Dye Aggregation, ChemPhotoChem (2024) e202300175. https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202300175.
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G.N. Kovacs, J.-P. Colletier, M.L. Gruenbein, Y. Yang, T. Stensitzki, A. Batyuk, S. Carbajo, R.B. Doak, D. Ehrenberg, L. Foucar, R. Gasper, A. Gorel, M. Hilpert, M. Kloos, J.E. Koglin, J. Reinstein, C.M. Roome, R. Schlesinger, M. Seaberg, O.L. Shoeman, M. Stricker, S. Boutet, S. Haacke, J. Heberle, K. Heyne, T. Domratcheva, T.R.M. Barends, I. Schlichting, Three-dimensional view of ultrafast dynamics in photoexcited bacteriorhodopsin, Nature Communications 10 (2019) 3177. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10758-0.
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A. Jouaiti, L. Ballerini, H.-L. Shen, R. Viel, F. Polo, N. Kyritsakas, S. Haacke, Y.-T. Huang, C.-W. Lu, C. Gourlaouen, H.-C. Su, M. Mauro, Binuclear Copper(I) Complexes for Near-Infrared Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells., Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 62 (2023) e202305569–e202305569. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202305569.
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K. Heyne, S. Haacke, R.J.D. Miller, Watching atomically resolved structural dynamics-Blinded by the light, Structure 32 (2024) 650–651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2024.05.008.
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M. Herve, B. Marekha, S. Mazerat, T. Mallah, M. Cammarata, S.F. Matar, S. Haacke, J. Léonard, E. Collet, Detection of a Jahn-Teller mode as an ultrafast fingerprint of spin-transition-induced charge transfer in CoFe Prussian Blue Analogue, Materials Advances 5 (2024) 3357–3366. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ma01072d.
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Z. Heiner, T. Roland, J. Léonard, S. Haacke, G.I. Groma, Kinetics of Light-Induced Intramolecular Energy Transfer in Different Conformational States of NADH, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121 (2017) 8037–8045. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b04753.
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F. Hainer, N. Alagna, A. Reddy Marri, T.J. Penfold, P.C. Gros, S. Haacke, T. Buckup, Vibrational Coherence Spectroscopy Identifies Ultrafast Branching in an Iron(II) Sensitizer, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12 (2021) 8560–8565. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01580.