Adrian Maximilian Roda Lentz

The primary goal of my research is to enable autonomous XPCS experiments to study how proteins move and interact within complex, gel-like environments. Specifically, I focus on biopolymer proteins like ferritin navigating through a hydrogel network, like hyaluronic acid. To observe this, we use XPCS at the European XFEL to capture the rapid, microsecond diffusion of these biopolymers at the nanometer scale. By additional SAXS measurements at DESY and DELTA, we investigate the structure of the hydrogel itself.