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Uwe Bergmann is affiliated with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans several overlapping fields primarily within Physics and Astronomy and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. They have contributed extensively to the subfields of Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Radiation; Molecular Biology; Materials Chemistry; and Structural Biology.

The main topics of their work include advanced X-ray imaging techniques, X-ray spectroscopy and fluorescence analysis, advanced electron microscopy techniques and applications, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, advanced chemical physics studies, and enzyme structure and function.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Uwe Bergmann encompass a range of studies focused on photosystem II and spectroscopy. These include:

  • "Untangling the sequence of events during the S 2 → S 3 transition in photosystem II and implications for the water oxidation mechanism," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Structural evidence for intermediates during O2 formation in photosystem II," 2023, Nature
  • "Structural dynamics in the water and proton channels of photosystem II during the S2 to S3 transition," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Using X-ray free-electron lasers for spectroscopy of molecular catalysts and metalloenzymes," 2021, Nature Reviews Physics
  • "High-Resolution XFEL Structure of the Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Hydroxylase Complex with its Regulatory Component at Ambient Temperature in Two Oxidation States," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Uwe Bergmann has collaborated frequently with several researchers in the field, including Roberto Alonso-Mori, Jan Kern, Vittal K. Yachandra, Junko Yano, and Franklin D. Fuller, each with over 20 joint publications.

Their work appears regularly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications, Nature, and Review of Scientific Instruments. These publications highlight a strong presence across both specialist and broadly recognized scientific journals.

Best Publications

  • The Structure of the First Coordination Shell in Liquid Water

    Ph. Wernet;D. Nordlund;U. Bergmann;M. Cavalleri

  • High resolution 1s core hole X-ray spectroscopy in 3d transition metal complexes—electronic and structural information

    Pieter Glatzel;Uwe Bergmann

  • X-ray Emission Spectroscopy Evidences a Central Carbon in the Nitrogenase Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor

    Kyle M. Lancaster;Michael Roemelt;Patrick Ettenhuber;Yilin Hu

  • The inhomogeneous structure of water at ambient conditions

    C Huang;K T Wikfeldt;T Tokushima;D Nordlund

  • X-ray damage to the Mn4Ca complex in single crystals of photosystem II: A case study for metalloprotein crystallography

    Junko Yano;Jana Kern;Klaus−Dieter Irrgang;Matthew J. Latimer

  • Structures of the intermediates of Kok's photosynthetic water oxidation clock.

    Jan Kern;Ruchira Chatterjee;Iris D. Young;Franklin D. Fuller

  • Tracking excited-state charge and spin dynamics in iron coordination complexes

    Wenkai Zhang;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Uwe Bergmann;Christian Bressler

  • Simultaneous Femtosecond X-ray Spectroscopy and Diffraction of Photosystem II at Room Temperature

    Jan Kern;Jan Kern;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Rosalie Tran;Johan Hattne

  • Structure of photosystem II and substrate binding at room temperature

    Iris D. Young;Mohamed Ibrahim;Ruchira Chatterjee;Sheraz Gul

  • Absence of Mn-Centered Oxidation in the S2 → S3 Transition: Implications for the Mechanism of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation

    Johannes Messinger;John H. Robblee;Uwe Bergmann;Carmen Fernandez

  • Probing Valence Orbital Composition with Iron Kβ X-ray Emission Spectroscopy

    Nicole Lee;Taras Petrenko;Uwe Bergmann;Frank Neese

  • Mössbauer spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation.

    J. B. Hastings;D. P. Siddons;U. van Bürck;R. Hollatz

  • Biotic and abiotic products of Mn(II) oxidation by spores of the marine bacillus sp. strain SG-1

    John R. Bargar;Bradley M. Tebo;Uwe Bergmann;Samuel M. Webb

  • Collective dynamics in water by high energy resolution inelastic X-ray scattering.

    F. Sette;G. Ruocco;M. Krisch;U. Bergmann

  • X-ray emission spectroscopy.

    Uwe Bergmann;Pieter Glatzel

  • Taking snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation using femtosecond X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy

    Jan Kern;Rosalie Tran;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Sergey Koroidov

  • High-resolution Mn EXAFS of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II: structural implications for the Mn4Ca cluster.

    Junko Yano;Yulia Pushkar;Pieter Glatzel;Azul Lewis

  • Chemical dependence of interatomic X-ray transition energies and intensities – a study of Mn Kβ″ and Kβ2, 5 spectra

    U. Bergmann;C.R. Horne;T.J. Collins;J.M. Workman

  • Nanoflow electrospinning serial femtosecond crystallography

    Raymond G Sierra;Hartawan Laksmono;Jan Kern;Rosalie Tran

  • Untangling the sequence of events during the S2 → S3 transition in photosystem II and implications for the water oxidation mechanism

    Mohamed Ibrahim;Thomas Fransson;Ruchira Chatterjee;Mun Hon Cheah

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray Raman scattering of water and ice; an experimental view

    Anders Nilsson;Anders Nilsson;Dennis Nordlund;Ira Waluyo;Ningdong Huang

  • The Electronic Structure of Mn in Oxides, Coordination Complexes, and the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Studied by Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

    Pieter Glatzel;Uwe Bergmann;Junko Yano;Hendrik Visser

Frequent Co-Authors

Junko Yano
Junko Yano Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Vittal K. Yachandra
Vittal K. Yachandra Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stephen P. Cramer
Stephen P. Cramer Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Jan Kern
Jan Kern Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dimosthenis Sokaras
Dimosthenis Sokaras SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Pieter Glatzel
Pieter Glatzel European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Johannes Messinger
Johannes Messinger Umeå University
Anders Nilsson
Anders Nilsson Stockholm University
Dennis Nordlund
Dennis Nordlund SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Athina Zouni
Athina Zouni Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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