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Welcome to the Action Spectroscopy Lab

Yoni Toker

We use techniques from atomic and high energy physics, like ion traps, accelerators and lasers to study complex molecules that of biological and astrophysical relevance. We are interested in understanding how life interacts with life? How the first complex organic molecules were formed? How do molecules cool down in space? And how to develop the best tools to answer these questions.

Fields of Interest

Minerva center for making bonds by fragmentation

Bond Formation in Molecular Clusters

And the origin of life

Gas phase studies of biochromophores

Uncovering the quantum mechanical basis for how life interacts with light

Laboratory Astrophysics at the CSR

How are molecules created, destroyed and how do they cool down in the interstellar medium

Instrument Developement

Recent Publications

Roth, Michal ; Toker, Yoni ; Major, Dan T. / Monte Carlo-Simulated Annealing and Machine Learning-Based Funneled Approach for Finding the Global Minimum Structure of Molecular Clusters. In: ACS Omega. 2024 ; Vol. 9, No. 1. pp. 1298-1309.
Licht, Ori ; Nihamkin, Maria ; Anaby, Mirit et al. / Vacuum UV studies of protonated serine clusters. In: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2023 ; Vol. 56, No. 20.
Licht, Ori ; Barreiro-Lage, DarĂ­o ; Rousseau, Patrick et al. / Peptide Bond Formation in the Protonated Serine Dimer Following Vacuum UV Photon-Induced Excitation. In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2023 ; Vol. 62, No. 15.
Hansen, Klavs ; Licht, Ori ; Kurbanov, Adeliya et al. / Cascade Infrared Thermal Photon Emission. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2023 ; Vol. 127, No. 13. pp. 2889-2894.

Updates

Molecular Dynamics and Spectroscopy Meeting

The second annual meeting of the Israeli community on molecular dynamics and spectroscopy was held in Bar-Ilan University on the 10th of June 2025. Link to the event

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