Research Interests

• Molecular Imaging
• Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics
• Ultrafast Electron Diffraction

Recent Publications

• Kurtis D. Borne, Joseph C. Cooper, Michael N. R. Ashfold, Julien Bachmann, Surjendu Bhattacharyya, Rebecca Boll, Matteo Bonanomi, Michael Bosch, Carlo Callegari, Martin Centurion, Marcello Coreno, Basile F. E. Curchod, Miltcho B. Danailov, Alexander Demidovich, Michele Di Fraia, Benjamin Erk, Davide Faccialà, Raimund Feifel, Ruaridh J. G. Forbes, Christopher S. Hansen, David M. P. Holland, Rebecca A. Ingle, Roland Lindh, Lingyu Ma, Henry G. McGhee, Sri Bhavya Muvva, Joao Pedro Figueira Nunes, Asami Odate, Shashank Pathak, Oksana Plekan, Kevin C. Prince, Primoz Rebernik, Arnaud Rouzée, Artem Rudenko, Alberto Simoncig, Richard J. Squibb, Anbu Selvam Venkatachalam, Caterina Vozzi, Peter M. Weber, Adam Kirrander & Daniel Rolles
  ''Ultrafast electronic relaxation pathways of the molecular photoswitch quadricyclane'' 
  Nature Chemistry volume 16, 499–505 (2024).
• Joao Pedro Figueira Nunes, Lea Maria Ibele, Shashank Pathak, Andrew R. Attar, Surjendu Bhattacharyya, Rebecca Boll, Kurtis Borne, Martin Centurion, Benjamin Erk, Ming-Fu Lin, Ruaridh J. G. Forbes, Nathan Goff, Christopher S. Hansen, Matthias Hoffmann, David M. P. Holland, Rebecca A. Ingle, Duan Luo, Sri Bhavya Muvva, Alexander H. Reid, Arnaud Rouzée, Artem Rudenko, Sajib Kumar Saha, Xiaozhe Shen, Anbu Selvam Venkatachalam, Xijie Wang, Matt R. Ware, Stephen P. Weathersby, Kyle Wilkin, Thomas J. A. Wolf, Yanwei Xiong, Jie Yang, Michael N. R. Ashfold, Daniel Rolles, and Basile F. E. Curchod
  ''Monitoring the Evolution of Relative Product Populations at Early Times during a Photochemical Reaction'' 
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, 6, 4134–4143 (2024).
• Joseph C. Cooper, David M. P. Holland, Rebecca A. Ingle, Matteo Bonanomi, Davide Faccialà, Nelson De Oliveira, Abdul R. Abid, Julien Bachmann, Surjendu Bhattacharyya, Kurtis Borne, Michael Bosch, Martin Centurion, Keyu Chen, Ruaridh J. G. Forbes, Huynh V. S. Lam, Asami Odate, Artem Rudenko, Anbu S. Venkatachalam, Caterina Vozzi, Enliang Wang, Peter M. Weber, Michael N. R. Ashfold, Adam Kirrander, and Daniel Rolles
  ''Valence shell electronically excited states of norbornadiene and quadricyclane'' 
  J. Chem. Phys. 160, 064305 (2024).
• Elio G. Champenois, Nanna H. List, Matthew Ware, Mathew Britton, Philip H. Bucksbaum, Xinxin Cheng, Martin Centurion, James P. Cryan, Ruaridh Forbes, Ian Gabalski, Kareem Hegazy, Matthias C. Hoffmann, Andrew J. Howard, Fuhao Ji, Ming-Fu Lin, J. Pedro F. Nunes, Xiaozhe Shen, Jie Yang, Xijie Wang, Todd J. Martinez, and Thomas J. A. Wolf
  ''Femtosecond Electronic and Hydrogen Structural Dynamics in Ammonia Imaged with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction'' 
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143001 (2023).
• K. M. Siddiqui, D. B. Durham, F. Cropp, F. Ji, S. Paiagua, C. Ophus, N. C. Andresen, L. Jin, J. Wu, S. Wang, X. Zhang, W. You, M. Murnane, M. Centurion, X. Wang, D. S. Slaughter, R. A. Kaindl, P. Musumeci, A. M. Minor, and D. Filippetto
  ''Relativistic ultrafast electron diffraction at high repetition rates'' 
  Structural Dynamics 10, 064302 (2023).
• Xiaojun Wang, Mahmudul Hasan, Lin Fan, Yibo Wang, Hui Li, Daniel S. Slaughter, and Martin Centurion
  ''Mass-selected ion–molecule cluster beam apparatus for ultrafast photofragmentation studies'' 
  Rev. Sci. Instrum. 94, 095111 (2023).
• Y. Liu, D. M. Sanchez, M. R. Ware, E. G. Champenois, J. Yang, J. P. F. Nunes, A. Attar, M. Centurion, J. P. Cryan, R. Forbes, K. Hegazy, M. C. Hoffmann, F. Ji, M.-F. Lin, D. Luo, S. K. Saha, X. Shen, X. J. Wang, T. J. Martínez, and T. J. A. Wolf
  ''Rehybridization dynamics into the pericyclic minimum of an electrocyclic reaction imaged in real-time'' 
  Nat Commun 14, 2795 (2023).
• Ana I. Lozano, Lidia Álvarez, Adrián García-Abenza, Carlos Guerra, Fábris Kossoski, Jaime Rosado, Francisco Blanco, Juan Carlos Oller, Mahmudul Hasan, Martin Centurion, Thorsten Weber, Daniel S. Slaughter, Deepthy M. Mootheril, Alexander Dorn, Sarvesh Kumar, Paulo Limão-Vieira, Rafael Colmenares, and Gustavo García
  ''Electron Scattering from 1-Methyl-5-Nitroimidazole: Cross-Sections for Modeling Electron Transport through Potential Radiosensitizers'' 
  Int. J. Mol. Sci., 24, 12182 (2023).
• Yibo Wang, Sajib Kumar Saha, Tianlin Li, Yanwei Xiong, Kyle Wilkin, Anil Adhikari, Michael Loes, Jehad Abourahma, Xia Hong, Shireen Adenwalla, Alexander Sinitskii, and Martin Centurion
  ''Ultrafast electron diffraction instrument for gas and condensed matter samples'' 
  Rev Sci Instrum 94, 053001 (2023).
• W. O. Razmus, K. Acheson, P. Bucksbaum, M. Centurion, E. Champenois, I. Gabalski, M. C. Hoffman, A. Howard, M. F/ Lin, Y. Liu, P. Nunes, S. Saha, X. Shen, M. Ware, E. M. Warne, T. Weinacht, K. Wilkin, J. Yang, T. J. A. Wolf, A. Kirrander, R. S. Minns, and R. Forbes
  ''Multichannel photodissociation dynamics in CS2 studied by ultrafast electron diffraction'' 
  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 24, 15416 (2022).
• D. Filippetto, P. Musumeci, R. K. Li, B. J. Siwick, M. R. Otto, M. Centurion, and J. P. F. Nunes
  ''Ultrafast electron diffraction: Visualizing dynamic states of matter'' 
  Rev. Mod. Phys. 94, 045004 (2022).
• Kyle J. Wilkin, Yanwei Xiong, Haoran Zhao, Sri Bhavya Muvva, Sajib Kumar Saha, and Martin Centurion
  ''Ultrafast electron diffraction from transiently aligned asymmetric top molecules: Rotational dynamics and structure retrieval'' 
  Structural Dynamics 9, 054303 (2022).
• Yanwei Xiong, Kyle J. Wilkin, Sajib Kumar Saha, Sri Bhavya Muvva, Haoran Zhao, and Martin Centurion
  ''Retrieval of the molecular orientation distribution from atom-pair angular distributions'' 
  Phys. Rev. A 106, 033109 (2022).
• Yanwei Xiong, Haoran Zhao, Sajib Kumar Saha, Sri Bhavya Muvva, Kyle J Wilkin, and Martin Centurion
  ''Isotope detection in molecules with ultrafast electron diffraction and rotational spectrometry'' 
  Journal of Physics Communications 6 (2022).
• Martin Centurion, Thomas J.A. Wolf, and Jie Yang
  ''Ultrafast Imaging of Molecules with Electron Diffraction'' 
  Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 73 (2022).