Beate RöderBeate Röder has been professor for experimental physics in the Department of Physics, Humboldt-Universität zu (HU) Berlin since 1993. She retired in May 2018 and now works as a guest researcher at the same institution. During her tenure, she haded the photobiophysics group and supervised about 20 Ph.D. students. She received her Ph.D. degree in experimental physics from HU Berlin in 1982 and the habilitation in 1986. Her research focuses on molecular photobiophysics, especially on fundamental research in the field of photosensitization and artificial photosynthesis. Besides these topics, her research was and is focused on the development of time-resolved optical methods for detection of very low-light intensities. She has been working for more than 30 years on direct spectroscopic detection of singlet molecular oxygen, in recent years especially on time-resolved luminescence detection. In 1986, she was awarded with the Humboldt Research Price for her habilitation in the field of fundamental research on molecular mechanisms of PDT. In 1989 she was a visiting scientist at Bowling Green State University (USA) in the group of Michael Rodgers, one of the pioneers in singlet oxygen luminescence detection. In the 1990s, she also visited the Weizmann Institute in Israel. In 2009, she was awarded a Walton Professorship by Science Foundation Ireland. Read More Read Less