Nicusor Timneanu
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy; X-ray Photon Science
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 36 11
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 09 26
- E-mail:
- Nicusor.Timneanu@physics.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
- Postal address:
- Box 516
751 20 UPPSALA
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy; X-ray Photon Science; Chemical and Bio-Molecular Physics
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 36 11
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 09 26
- E-mail:
- nicusor.timneanu@physics.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
- Postal address:
- Box 516
751 20 UPPSALA
- CV:
- Download CV
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-7328-0400
More information is available to staff who log in.
Short presentation
Researcher in X-ray Photon Science and Molecular Biophysics in ultrafast dynamics of X-ray lasers with biological matter, and part of the Biophysics Network at the faculty.
Senior lecturer at the Department of Physics and Astronomy where I teach Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Free Electron Laser Science, and coordinator of the Master's Programme in Biophysics.
Distinguished university teacher, mentor and pedagogical support as part of the Council for Educational Development at the faculty.
Keywords
- biofysik
- biophysics
- coherent diffractive imaging
- pedagogical development
- pedagogisk utveckling
- quantum mechanics
- röntgenlaser
- serial femtosecond crystallography
- warm dense matter
- x-ray free electron lasers
Publications
Selection of publications
- Ultrafast non-thermal heating of water initiated by an X-ray laser (2018)
- Femtosecond X-ray Fourier holography imaging of free-flying nanoparticles (2018)
- Imaging single cells in a beam of live cyanobacteria with an X-ray laser (2015)
- Diffraction before destruction (2014)
- High-throughput imaging of heterogeneous cell organelles with an X-ray laser (2014)
- Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements (2012)
- On the Feasibility of Nanocrystal Imaging Using Intense and Ultrashort X-ray Pulses (2011)
- Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography (2011)
- Femtosecond diffractive imaging with a soft-X-ray free-electron laser (2006)
Recent publications
- MolDStruct (2024)
- Observation of a single protein by ultrafast X-ray diffraction (2024)
- Heavy element incorporation in nitroimidazole radiosensitizers (2024)
- Decreasing ultrafast x-ray pulse durations with saturable absorption and resonant transitions (2023)
- Coherent diffractive imaging of proteins and viral capsids (2023)
All publications
Articles
- MolDStruct (2024)
- Observation of a single protein by ultrafast X-ray diffraction (2024)
- Heavy element incorporation in nitroimidazole radiosensitizers (2024)
- Decreasing ultrafast x-ray pulse durations with saturable absorption and resonant transitions (2023)
- Coherent diffractive imaging of proteins and viral capsids (2023)
- Speckle contrast of interfering fluorescence X-rays (2023)
- Imaging via Correlation of X-Ray Fluorescence Photons (2023)
- Distinguishing between Similar Miniproteins with Single-Molecule Nanopore Sensing (2022)
- Imaging of femtosecond bond breaking and charge dynamics in ultracharged peptides (2022)
- Ultrafast dynamics and scattering of protic ionic liquids induced by XFEL pulses (2021)
- Dynamics of rare gas solids irradiated by electron beams (2020)
- The role of transient resonances for ultra-fast imaging of single sucrose nanoclusters (2020)
- Structural Heterogeneity in Single Particle Imaging Using X-ray Lasers (2020)
- Megahertz single-particle imaging at the European XFEL (2020)
- Electrospray sample injection for single-particle imaging with x-ray lasers (2019)
- Femtosecond bond breaking and charge dynamics in ultracharged amino acids (2019)
- Is Radiation Damage the Limiting Factor in Single Particle Imaging with X-ray Free-Electron Lasers? (2019)
- Ultrafast non-thermal heating of water initiated by an X-ray laser (2018)
- Femtosecond X-ray Fourier holography imaging of free-flying nanoparticles (2018)
- FreeDam – A Webtool for Free-Electron Laser-Induced Damage in Femtosecond X-ray Crystallography (2018)
- Considerations for three-dimensional image reconstruction from experimental data in coherent diffractive imaging (2018)
- A statistical approach to detect protein complexes at X-ray free electron laser facilities (2018)
- Reproducibility of Single Protein Explosions Induced by X-ray Lasers (2018)
- Experimental strategies for imaging bioparticles with femtosecond hard X-ray pulses (2017)
- Hit detection in serial femtosecond crystallography using X-ray spectroscopy of plasma emission (2017)
- A data set from flash X-ray imaging of carboxysomes (2016)
- Coherent diffraction of single Rice Dwarf virus particles using hard X-rays at the Linac Coherent Light Source (2016)
- Open data set of live cyanobacterial cells imaged using an X-ray laser (2016)
- Ultrafast self-gating Bragg diffraction of exploding nanocrystals in an X-ray laser (2015)
- Towards phasing using high X-ray intensity (2015)
- Simulations of Radiation Damage as a Function of the Temporal Pulse Profile in Femtosecond X-ray Protein Crystallography (2015)
- Single-molecule imaging with longer X-ray laser pulses (2015)
- Indications of radiation damage in ferredoxin microcrystals using high-intensity X-FEL beams (2015)
- Imaging single cells in a beam of live cyanobacteria with an X-ray laser (2015)
- Automated identification and classification of single particle serial femtosecond X-ray diffraction data (2014)
- Diffraction before destruction (2014)
- High-throughput imaging of heterogeneous cell organelles with an X-ray laser (2014)
- Explosion dynamics of sucrose nanospheres monitored by time of flight spectrometry and coherent diffractive imaging at the split-and-delay beam line of the FLASH soft X-ray laser (2014)
- Natively Inhibited Trypanosoma brucei Cathepsin B Structure Determined by Using an X-ray Laser (2013)
- Time-resolved protein nanocrystallography using an X-ray free-electron laser (2012)
- Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements (2012)
- High-resolution protein structure determination by serial femtosecond crystallography (2012)
- Explosion, ion acceleration and molecular fragmentation of methane clusters in the pulsed beam of a free-electron laser (2012)
- Lipidic phase membrane protein serial femtosecond crystallography (2012)
- In vivo protein crystallization opens new routes in structural biology (2012)
- Explosions of Xenon Clusters in Ultraintense Femtosecond X-Ray Pulses from the LCLS Free Electron Laser (2012)
- Saturated ablation in metal hydrides and acceleration of protons and deuterons to keV energies with a soft-x-ray laser (2011)
- Simulations of radiation damage in biomolecular nanocrystals induced by femtosecond X-ray pulses (2011)
- On the Feasibility of Nanocrystal Imaging Using Intense and Ultrashort X-ray Pulses (2011)
- Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography (2011)
- TOF-OFF (2011)
- Radiation damage in protein serial femtosecond crystallography using an x-ray free-electron laser (2011)
- Single-shot femtosecond x-ray diffraction from randomly oriented ellipsoidal nanoparticles (2010)
- Aerosol Imaging with a Soft X-Ray Free Electron Laser (2010)
- Cryptotomography (2010)
- Femtosecond diffractive imaging of biological cells (2010)
- Radiation damage in biological material (2009)
- Coherent imaging at FLASH (2009)
- Wavelength dependence of the damage threshold of inorganic materials under extreme-ultraviolet free-electron-laser irradiation (2009)
- Structural variability and the incoherent addition of scattered intensities in single-particle diffraction (2009)
- Soft x-ray free electron laser microfocus for exploring matter under extreme conditions (2009)
- Feasibility of imaging living cells at subnanometer resolutions by ultrafast X-ray diffraction (2008)
- Interaction of Ultrashort X-ray Pulses with B4C, SiC and Si (2008)
- Encapsulation and diffraction-pattern-correction methods to reduce the effect of damage in x-ray diffraction imaging of single biological molecules (2007)
- Femtosecond diffractive imaging with a soft-X-ray free-electron laser (2006)
- Thermodynamics of hydrogen bonding in hydrophilic and hydrophobic media. (2006)
- Clocking femtosecond X rays. (2005)
- Observation of structural anisotropy and the onset of liquidlike motion during the nonthermal melting of InSb. (2005)
- Atomic-scale visualization of inertial dynamics. (2005)
- Model for the Dynamics of a Water Cluster in an X-ray Free Electron Laser Beam (2004)
- Soft colour interactions and diffractive Higgs production (2004)
- Auger electron cascades in water and ice (2004)
- Diffractive Higgs bosons and prompt photons at hadron colliders (2003)
- Unintegrated gluon in the photon and heavy quark production (2003)
- Diffractive Higgs Boson Production at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (2002)
- Two-photon cross-sections from the saturation model (2002)
- Saturation model for two-photon interactions at high energies (2002)
- Diffractive Higgs Production (2002)
- Saturation model for 2-gamma physics (2002)
- Soft color interactions and diffractive hard scattering at the Fermilab Tevatron (2001)
- Rapidity gaps at HERA and the Tevatron from soft colour exchanges (2000)
- Soft Colour Interactions in Non-perturbative QCD (2000)
- Rapidity gaps from colour string topologies (1999)
- Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry to Monitor Sample Expansion in Flash Diffraction Studies on Single Virus Particles
- Macromolecule classification using X-ray laser induced fragmentation simulated with hybrid Monte Carlo/Molecular Dynamics
- Nanocrystal imaging using intense and ultrashort X-ray pulses
- Anisotropic melting of ice induced by ultrafast non-thermal heating
- Radiation damage in a hemoglobin crystal studied with an X-ray free-electron laser
- Sample Heterogeneity in Single Particle Imaging Using X-ray Lasers
Books
Chapters
Conferences
- Ultrafast dynamics of water exposed to XFEL pulses (2019)
- Fragmentation of clusters and recombination induced by intense and ultrashort X-ray laser pulses (2013)
- Modeling of XFEL induced ionization and atomic displacement in protein nanocrystals (2012)
- X-ray laser-induced ablation of lead compounds (2011)
- Modeling of soft X-ray induced ablation in solids (2011)
- Soft remnant interactions and rapidity gaps (2000)
