Welcome!
Located directly next to the EMBL beamlines on the PETRA III synchrotron, we offer a pipeline from the lab bench to beamline, helping you optimise and prepare your samples for structural studies. Please visit our Services page for more details of our services.
Our facility provides a range of services for structural biology research, for more infomation visit our websites from the Links and Resources section below. Please get in touch with us to discuss your specific needs.
Please address all e-mail correspondence to spc@embl-hamburg.de
Maria Marta Garcia Alai, PhD - Head of Facility
E-mail: garcia@embl-hamburg.de
Lucas Defelipe, PhD - Senior Technical Officer
Email: ldefelipe@embl-hamburg.de
Simon Mortensen, PhD - Staff scientist
Email: simon.mortensen@embl-hamburg.de
Ritwik Maity, PhD - Postdoctoral fellow
Email: ritwik.maity@embl-hamburg.de
Osvaldo Burastero, PhD - ARISE fellow - Data analysis
Email: osvaldo.burastero@embl-hamburg.de
David Ruiz Carrillo, PhD - Laboratory Officer (HTX)
E-mail: david.ruizcarrillo@embl-hamburg.de
Angelica Struve, M.Sc - SPC Lab Manager
E-mail: angelica.struve@embl-hamburg.de
Sharon Qi, M.Sc - Research technician
E-mail: sharon.qi@embl-hamburg.de
Katharina Veith - Research technician
E-mail: katharina.veith@embl-hamburg.de
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Technology / Instrument |
Main Staff |
Backup Staff |
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Mass Photometry (MP) |
Sharon Qi |
Ritwik Maity, Angelica Struve Garcia |
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nanoDSF |
Lucas Defelipe |
David Ruiz Carrillo, Katharina Veith |
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Microscale Thermophoresis (MST) |
Angelica Struve Garcia |
Ritwik Maity, Lucas Defelipe |
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Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC) |
Ritwik Maity |
Katharina Veith, Lucas Defelipe |
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Biolayer Interferometry (BLI) |
Angelica Struve Garcia |
Ritwik Maity, Lucas Defelipe |
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Creoptix Wave |
Ritwik Maity |
Angelica Struve Garcia, Lucas Defelipe |
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Circular Dichroism (CD) |
Angelica Struve Garcia |
Lucas Defelipe |
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Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) |
Sharon Qi |
Angelica Struve Garcia |
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FT-IR Spectrometer |
Ritwik Maity |
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SX20 Stopped- Flow |
Ritwik Maity |
Lucas Defelipe, Katharina Veith |
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UV/Vis Spectrometer |
Angelica Struve Garcia |
Lucas Defelipe |
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Wyatt DLS (48e) |
David Ruiz Carrillo |
Angelica Struve Garcia, Katharina Veith |
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SEC-MALS (48e) |
David Ruiz Carrillo |
Simon Mortensen |
Location and hours of operation
| Hours - Staffed | SPC Facility Address |
Shipping Address |
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Hours staffed:
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EMBL (c/o DESY) Notkestrasse 85, Geb. 48e, ground floor 22607 Hamburg Germany |
EMBL (c/o DESY) Notkestrasse 85, Geb. 25a 22607 Hamburg Germany |
Sample Preparation and Characterization Facility Official-Website
1. In order to get independent access to our lab at CSSB, there is a mandatory CSSB safety training to be performed prior getting a transponder (lab key). The CSSB safety training will be offered every first Wednesday of the month ( either in German or English).
The CSSB safety trainings are be held in the Lecture Hall at 9 am.
2. After attending to CSSB safety training, a signed CSSB access form (request to Angelica Struve at astruve@embl-hamburg.de for accessing the SPC core facility at EMBL Hamburg) has to be handed in to CSSB caretaker, Julian Fisch ( office at the 2nd Fl at CSSB; email address: julian.fisch@cssb-hamburg.de).
Here it is the schedule for the next CSSB safety trainings for 2025-2026 - on Wednesdays, 9 am in the CSSB lecture hall.
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03.09.2025 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
Jens Bosse |
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01.10.2025 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
Meytal Landau |
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05.11.2025 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
Michael Kolbe |
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03.12.2025 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
Tim Gilberger (TBC) |
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07.01.2026 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
Oliver Vesper |
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04.02.2026 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
Holger Sondermann |
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04.03.2026 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
Caroline Barisch (TBC) |
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01.04.2026 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
Jan Kosinski |
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06.05.2026 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
Emil Gustavsson |
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03.06.2026 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
Kay Grünewald |
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01.07.2026 |
09-10h |
CSSB Hörsaal |
TBD |
General aspects of CSSB safety training
- This safety instruction will be offered every first Wednesday (in general) of the month
- It is addressed to all employees working at CSSB (and DESY), i.e. technicians, caretakers, bachelor/master/PhD students, facility guests, as well as project managers and secretaries who do not perform any work in the laboratories, but at CSSB
- Will be presented (in a rotating scheme) by CSSB project leaders,
- Includes occupational safety and biosafety (S1/S2) topics, and allows to enter the laboratories at CSSB between 8 am-6 pm (with transponder),
- Work of any kind in the labs is still only allowed after a task-specific instruction by the responsible person of each laboratory (+ open access via transponder 24/7),
- For the task-specific instructions you will be invited separately upon your request, and those instructions will be rather short and more specific,
- For accessing and working in our core facilities, both the general and the task-specific instruction will be necessary,
- The CSSB safety instruction is compliant with the DESY campus regulations, which implies that CSSB members no longer need to participate in the DESY-DOOR nor the DESY General Safety Training, if work will be only performed at CSSB,
- Special training for e.g. working with cryogenic gases is still necessary and your respective employer/lab operator will inform you whether additional, partner-specific instructions are necessary.
3. On-site training is mandatory prior to using instruments in our facility. Please initiate a training on the instrument you would like to use by e-maling us at spc@embl-hamburg.de
4. Please complete the online EMBL safety training before visiting our SPC core facility at smis.embl-hamburg.de
