Welcome to the Eills Group Research Website

The Eills research group is based at the Institute of Structural Biochemistry in the Helmholtz Center “Forschungszentrum Jülich”, Germany. The Forschungszentrum is just outside the town of Jülich, and situated between Cologne, Aachen and Düsseldorf. We work in two labs on campus: the biochemistry research labs, and the NMR hall with high-field NMR instruments up to 1.2 GHz. Our research is on the topic of hyperpolarization for NMR. In particular we are investigating parahydrogen-induced polarization and low-field NMR methods.

A snapshot of our lab

Parahydrogen polarizer and benchtop NMR setup

Automated sample shuttle for relaxometry

Hyperpolarization software interface

High-field NMR hall, 1.2 GHz magnet

Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2021

The 2021 Erwin Schrödinger Award, endowed with €50,000, was awarded to to our team for our work developing an inexpensive and faster method to produce a new contrast agent for MRI.

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