We are an interdisciplinary research group that focusses on the development and application of new optical methodologies to study structure and dynamics down to nanometer length scales and femtosecond timescales. Our research is motivated by a vigorous back and forth between pushing the boundaries of what we can measure with light and the application of our developments to fundamental questions in chemistry, physics and biology. We are interested in a wide range of phenomena including the origin of life, nanoscale dynamics of proteins and ultra sensitive optical sensing down to individual molecules all the way to the fundamentals of the interaction between light and matter.