Projects
The following research activities in the Müller-Caspary group are conducted within third-party-funded projects
Cluster of Excellence EXC 2089 e-conversion 2.0
Starting in the first funding period of the excellence cluster e-conversion 1.0, the Müller-Caspary group acts a versatile node for the characterisation of nanostructures down to the atomic scale. We are happy that these activities will be continued within a broad consortium of the LMU and TU Munich, together with MPI in Stuttgart and Berlin. Besides providing state-of-the-art characterisations using electron microscopy and spectroscopy in the TEM, the challenges dealt with by the e-conversion 2.0 consortium constitute a solid ground for the improvement and development of dedicated methodologies in electron microscopy.
ERC Synergy Project 4D-BioSTEM
Start: 2024
Together with our partner groups of Prof. Dr. Carsten Sachse (Forschungszentrum Jülich, D) and Prof. Dr. Henning Stahlberg (EPFL Lausanne, CH), we received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) within the "Synergy Grant" call 2023. During the coming 6 years starting from January 2024, we will develop new methodologies to enhance contrast and spatial resolution in structural biology imaging and for investigating organic matter in general. Using four-dimensional datasets that combine diffraction and real space information, our consortium will explore new experimental setups, acquisition schemes and processing algorithms for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of, e.g., proteins and cells at cryogenic temperatures.
My thanks go to the ERC for funding, my two partners for the creative proposal preparation phase and especially my whole group for working out excellent preparatory results which made our 4D BioSTEM project possible! - Knut Müller-Caspary -
Pressemitteilung Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
Pressemitteilung Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
4D-BioSTEM Project Homepage
DFG Research Grant Quantitative atomic-scale mapping of structure and chemistry
Start: 2026
DFG Research Grant Structure and morphology of stability-enhanced halide perovskite nanocrystals for efficient visible light emission
Start: 2026
DFG Research Grant Inversion of dynamical electron scattering for atomically-resolved structural analysis
Start: 2024