Amke joined the group in 2018, the same year she graduated the Kiel university with a master in Business Chemistry. Her master project involved the studying of the relaxation of nucleic acid chromophore purine after photoexcitation using ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy. In her PhD project she applies time resolved x-ray solution scattering to observe the movements of atoms during light-initiated reactions and investigate the solvent effect on reactions. The system she is currently working with is triiodide which dissociates upon excitation with UV light.