New Materials WG 3 Member, Light Harvesting Processes, LINXS Fellow

Kajsa Sigfridsson Clauss is a hard X-ray spectroscopist with a multidisciplinary background working as a beamline scientist at the Balder beamline at MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Sweden.  The master in molecular biology at Lund University, was followed by a PhD in Chemistry (Molecular Biomimetics) at Uppsala University in the group of Prof. Styring where she focused on the natural photosynthesis in particular the water-splitting intermediates in Photosystem II. X-ray spectroscopy became the main technique after three intense years postdoc, investigating several biocatalyst (enzyme) systems with XAFS and XES at the Department of Experimental Physics, Freie Unviersität Berlin, Germany, in the group of Dr. M. Haumman/Prof. H. Dau. Thereafter, she returned to Lund, to a postdoc position at the XAFS beamline I811, MAX-lab, serving a broad user community. Since 2016, as part of the Balder team, she has been building, commissioning and operating Balder with emphasis on sample environments for radiation sensitive samples (cryostat and microfluidics). She is presently holding a SSF grant for developing a microfluidic flowcell platform (AdaptoCell) for studies of proteins to MAX IV users at Balder/CoSAXS/MicroMAX.