My research deals with experimental nuclear physics, whereby I try to disentangle the fundamental forces that act in the atomic nucleus by studying nuclei under extreme conditions. Such exotic nuclei are all man-made at accelerators and need to be created in our experiemnts for detailed studies by applying different methods. It is a combination of techniques from nuclear physics (nuclear reactions and decay, ion sources, accelerators, beam manipulation, detectors) and from atomic physics (lasers) that makes this research so challenging and interesting.