Professor
Physics and Astronomy
079 Jorgensen HallLincoln, NE 68588
(402) 472-5810
martin.centurion@unl.edu
Education
- Postdoctoral, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, 2006-2009
- Postdoctoral, California Institute of Technology, 2005-2006
- PhD, Physics, California Institute of Technology, 2005
- BS, Physics, University of Michigan, 2000
Research Interests
- Molecular Imaging
- Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics
- Ultrafast Electron Diffraction
Honors and Awards
- DOE Office of Science Early Career Award (2010-2015)
- Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2006-2008)
- Center for the Physics of Information Postdoctoral Fellowship, California Institute of Technology (2005)
- William L. Williams Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Physics, University of Michigan (2000)
- Graduated with Highest Distinction and High Honors in Physics, University of Michigan (2000)
- Ralph B. Bodine Scholarship, awarded biennially to a Physics sophomore for academic excellence, University of Michigan (1998)
Selected Publications
- Martin Centurion, Thomas J.A. Wolf, and Jie Yang, "Ultrafast Imaging of Molecules with Electron Diffraction," Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 73 (2022).
- E. G. Champenois, D. M. Sanchez, J. Yang, J. P. Figueira Nunes, A. Attar, M. Centurion, R. Forbes, M. Gühr, K. Hegazy, F.Ji, S. K. Saha, Y. Liu, M.-F. Lin, D.Luo, B. Moore, X. Shen, M. R. Ware, X. J. Wang, T. J. Martínez, T. J. A. Wolf "Conformer-specific photochemistry imaged in real space and time," Science 374, 178-182 (2021).
- Ming Zhang, Shuqiao Zhang, Yanwei Xiong, Hankai Zhang, Anatoly A. Ischenko, Oriol Vendrell, Xiaolong Dong, Xiangxu Mu, Martin Centurion, Haitan Xu, R. J. Dwayne Miller & Zheng Li "Quantum state tomography of molecules by ultrafast diffraction," Nature Communications 12, 5441 (2021).
- Jie Yang, Riccardo Dettori, J. Pedro F. Nunes, Nanna H. List, Elisa Biasin, Martin Centurion, Zhijiang Chen, Amy A. Cordones, Daniel P. Deponte, Tony F. Heinz, Michael E. Kozina, Kathryn Ledbetter, Ming-Fu Lin, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Mianzhen Mo, Anders Nilsson, Xiaozhe Shen, Thomas J. A. Wolf, Davide Donadio, Kelly J. Gaffney, Todd J. Martinez & Xijie Wang "Direct observation of ultrafast hydrogen bond strengthening in liquid water," Nature 596, 531–535 (2021).
- Yanwei Xiong, Kurtis Borne, Andrés Moreno Carrascosa, Sajib Kumar Saha, Kyle J. Wilkin, Mengqi Yang, Surjendu Bhattacharyya, Keyu Chen, Wenpeng Du, Lingyu Ma, Nathan Marshall, J. Pedro F. Nunes, Shashank Pathak, Zane Phelps, Xuan Xu, Haiwang Yong, Kenneth Lopata, Peter M. Weber, Artem Rudenko, Daniel Rolles and Martin Centurion "Strong-field induced fragmentation and isomerization of toluene probed by ultrafast femtosecond electron diffraction and mass spectrometry," Faraday Discussions 228, 39 (2021).
- K Ledbetter, E Biasin, JPF Nunes, M Centurion, KJ Gaffney, M Kozina, M-F Lin, X Shen, J Yang, XJ Wang, TJA Wolf, AA Cordones "Photodissociation of aqueous I3- observed with liquid-phase ultrafast mega-electron-volt electron diffraction," Structural Dynamics 7, 064901 (2020).
- Yanwei Xiong, Kyle J. Wilkin, Martin Centurion "High-resolution movies of molecular rotational dynamics captured with ultrafast electron diffraction," Physical Review Research 2, 043064 (2020).
- Jie Yang, Xiaolei Zhu, J. Pedro F. Nunes, Jimmy K. Yu, Robert M. Parrish, Thomas J. A. Wolf, Martin Centurion , Markus Gühr, Renkai Li, Yusong Liu , Bryan Moore, Mario Niebuhr , Suji Park, Xiaozhe Shen , Stephen Weathersby , Thomas Weinacht , Todd J. Martinez, Xijie Wang "Simultaneous observation of nuclear and electronic dynamics by ultrafast electron diffraction," Science 368, 885–889 (2020).
- Yusong Liu, Spencer L. Horton, Jie Yang, J. Pedro F. Nunes, Xiaozhe Shen, Thomas J. A. Wolf, Ruaridh Forbes, Chuan Cheng, Bryan Moore, Martin Centurion, Kareem Hegazy, Renkai Li, Ming-Fu Lin, Albert Stolow, Paul Hockett, Tamás Rozgonyi, Philipp Marquetand, Xijie Wang, and Thomas Weinacht "Spectroscopic and Structural Probing of Excited-State Molecular Dynamics with Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Electron Diffraction," Phys. Rev. X 10, 021016(2020).
- J. P. F. Nunes, K. Ledbetter, M. Lin, M. Kozina, D. P. DePonte, E. Biasin, M. Centurion, C. J. Crissman, M. Dunning, S. Guillet, K. Jobe, Y. Liu, M. Mo, X. Shen, R. Sublett, S. Weathersby, C. Yoneda, T. J. A. Wolf, J. Yang, A. A. Cordones, and X. J. Wang "Liquid-phase mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction," Structural Dynamics 7, 024301 (2020).
- M. Centurion "Structural Dynamics in Molecules Observed with Femtosecond X-Ray Pulses," Chem 5, 9(2019).
- X. Shen, J. P. F. Nunes, J. Yang, R. K. Jobe, R. K. Li, M. F. Lin, B. Moore, M. Niebuhr, S. P. Weathersby, T. J. A. Wolf, C. Yoneda, M. Guehr, M. Centurion, X. J. Wang "Femtosecond gas-phase mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction," Structural Dynamics 6, 054305 (2019).
- Stefan Schippers, Emma Sokell, Friedrich Aumayr, Hossein Sadeghpour, Kiyoshi Ueda, Igor Bray, Klaus Bartschat, Andrew Murray, Jonathan Tennyson, Alexander Dorn, Masakazu Yamazaki, Masahiko Takahashi, Nigel Mason, Oldřich Novotný, Andreas Wolf, Leon Sanche, Martin Centurion, Yasunori Yamazaki, Gaetana Laricchia, Clifford M Surko, James Sullivan, Gleb Gribakin, Daniel Wolf Savin, Yuri Ralchenko, Ronnie Hoekstra,and Gerry O'Sullivan "Roadmap on photonic, electronic and atomic collision physics: II. Electron and antimatter interactions," Journal of Physics B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 52 171002 (2019).