News from The Engel Group at The University of Chicago
Paper Published 9/27/2024
Congratulations to Sid Sohoni, Indranil Ghosh, Claire Jones, Lawson Lloyd, Coco Li, Karen Ji, and our collaborators in the Lin Group on having their paper entitled "Optically accessible long-lived electronic biexcitons at room temperature in strongly coupled H- aggregates" published in Nature Communications.
Congratulations 8/1/2024
Congratulations to Emma McNesby on being selected fro the Quantum FADEx program, which is a week-long program in Paris focusing on scientific exchange between American and French Ph.D. students in QIS
Congratulations 7/28/2024
Congratulations to Indranil Ghosh who was just elected as the next co-chair for the GRS Electron Donor Acceptor Interactions in 2026
Fellowship 7/15/2024
Congratulations to Daniela Santillán-Enríquez on receiving Metcalf fellowship to support her research.
Congratulations 7/1/2024
Congratulations to Brenda Thomas on her retirement after 30 years at UChicago.
Welcome 6/21/2024
Welcome to Ashley Amidei who is joining our group for the summer to work on quantum dynamics and curriculum for deployment within Chicago Public Schools.
Paper Published 6/5/2024
Congratulations to Qijie Shen, Rachel Leech, and our collaborators in Wenbin Lin's group on their paper entitled "Simultaneous Protonation and Metalation of a Porphyrin Covalent Organic Framework Enhance Photodynamic Therapy" publishing in JACS.
Congratulations 6/3/2024
Congratulations to Ainsley Iwanicki and Hugh Cairney on their graduation!
Congratulations 6/1/2024
Congratulations to Dr. Sid Sohoni on receiving his Ph.D. at UChicago's Commencement ceremony! We are excited to see great science from Sid as he heads to Berkeley to do his postdoc with Prof. Naomi Ginsberg.
Welcome 5/23/2024
Welcome to Kush Banker, who is joining the group as an undergradaute researcher.
Travel Grant 5/22/2024
Congratulations to Indranhil Ghosh on winning a Olshansky Travel grant to support his presentation at a Gordon Research Conference this summer.
Summer Fellowship 5/14/2024
Congratulations to Felice Chan on receiving a research fellowship from the James Franck Institute to support her work this summer.
Congratulations 5/9/2024
Congratulations to Sarah Kress on receiving a summer research fellowship from the Department of Chemistry to support her research.
Congratulations 5/8/2024
Congratulations to Cooper Costello on receiving a Quad Grant to support his summer research.
New Postdoctoral Scholar 4/29/2024
Welcome to Dr. Sunandita Paul, who is joining the group as a Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D. 4/23/2024
Congratulations to Dr. Sid Sohoni on successfully defending this PhD dissertation.
Off to Graduate School! 4/11/2024
Congratulations to Ainsley Iwanicki on her decision to attend graduate school in Chemistry at MIT!
Off to Graduate School! 4/8/2024
Congratulations to Hugh Cairney on his decision to attend graduate school in Aerospace Engineering at MIT!
NSF Fellowships 4/4/2024
Congratulations to Emma McNesby, Claire Jones, and Hugh Cairney on being awarded NSF GRFP fellowships!
Scholarship 4/1/2024
Congratulations to Sarah Kress on receiving a Goldwater Scholarship!
Quals Passed 2/27/2024
Congratulations to Keerthi Vaasan and Emma McNesby on passing their candidacy exams!
New Undergraduate Researcher 2/7/2024
Welcome to Sarah Kress, who is joining the group as an undergraduate researcher.
New Undergraduate Researcher 1/19/2024
Welcome to Cooper Costello, who is joining the group as an undergraduate researcher.
New Graduate Students 11/15/2023
Welcome to Andrew Huang and Molly Roesch, who are joining the group as Graduate Student Researchers.
Paper Published 11/9/2023
Congratulations to Qijie Shen and Caitlin Bellora and our collaborators on having their paper entitled "Two dimensional electronic spectroscopy" published in Nature Methods Primers.
Quals Passed 11/7/2023
Congratulations to Claire Jones and Katelyn Feuling on passing their candidacy exams!
Congratulations 10/17/2023
Congratulations to Qijie Shen, Keerthi Vaasan, Rachel Leech, Katelyn Feuling, and Eric Wu on presenting their work at the 2023 Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Meeting.
Welcome 10/23/2023
Welcome to Vanessa Tian, who is joining the group as a Rotating Researcher.
Paper Accepted 9/14/2023
Congratulations to Indranil Ghosh, Olivia Wedig, Jake Higgins and our collaborators in the Mazziotti Group on having their paper entitled "Quantum sensing using multi-qubit quantum systems and the Pauli polytope" accepted at Physical Review Research.
New Summer Researcher 8/21/2023
Welcome to Nate Lopez, who is joining the group as a Summer Researcher.
Poster Award 8/15/2023
Congratulations to Indranil Ghosh on winning a poster award from the PHYS Division of ACS at the national meeting in San Francisco
Fellow of the American Chemical Society 8/14/2023
Greg Engel was honored at the ACS National Meeting and inducted as an ACS Fellow.
New Summer Researcher 8/14/2023
Welcome to Jill Belluomini, who is joining the group as a Summer Researcher.
New Summer Researcher 8/5/2023
Welcome to Molly Roesch, who is joining the group as a Summer Researcher.
Fellow of the American Chemical Society 7/31/2023
Greg Engel has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Promotion 7/25/2023
Congratulations to Prof. Justin Caram on receiving tenure at UCLA. Justin's science was transformative for our group, and we are excited to see him to continue his brilliant scientific career at UCLA.
New Summer Researcher 7/17/2023
Welcome to Francisco Lizano, who is joining the group as a Summer Researcher.
New Summer Researcher 7/10/2023
Welcome to Chun-Chuan Huang and Chih-Tsun Yang, who are joining the group as Summer Researchers.
Welcome 6/20/2023
Welcome to Logan Bessell who is joining our group for the summer to work on quantum dynamics and curriculum for deployment within Chicago Public Schools.
Congratulations 6/1/2023
Congratulations to Daniela Santillán-Enríquez and Hugh Cairney on accepting Metcalf funding to support their summer research.
Summer Fellowships 5/31/2023
Congratulations to Daniela Santillán-Enríquez and Hugh Cairney on being offered JFI Research Fellowships to support their summer research.
Fellowship 5/30/2023
Congratulations to Ainsley Iwanicki on receiving a Chemistry Research Fellowship Metcalf to support her research.
Congratulations 5/29/2023
Congratulations to Felice Chan on receiving the Pulido Grant to support her research.
Benjamin Ball Freud Scholarship 5/24/2023
Congratulations to Qijie Shen on winning the Benjamin Ball Freud Scholarship!
Teaching Award 5/24/2023
Congratulations to Emma McNesby on being awarding the Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award for her teaching in general chemistry.
Teaching Award 4/28/2023
Congratulations to Katelyn Feuling on winning a Teaching Prize from the Physical Sciences Division recognizing her excellence and dedication to undergraduate teaching in Honors General Chemistry.
Undergraduate Research Symposium 4/21/2023
Hugh Cairney presented his work on lead-free perovskite synthesis, structure, and ultrafast dynamics at UChicago's undergraduate research symposium.
Paper Accepted 4/17/2023
Congratulations to Sid Sohoni, Lawson Lloyd, Ainsley Iwanicki, Indranil Ghosh, Qijie Shen, and our collaborators in Neil Hunter's group on having their manuscript entitled "The Phycobilisome's Exciton Transfer Efficiency Relies on an Energetic Funnel Driven by Chromophore-Linker Protein Interactions" accepted at JACS.
New Undergraduate Researcher 4/11/2023
Welcome to Daniela Santillán-Enríquez who is joining the group as an undergraduate researcher
New Undergraduate Researcher 4/6/2023
Welcome to Felice Chan, who is joining the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Congratulations 4/1/2023
Congratulations to Angela Johnson on accepting an offer to do her PhD work at UIC Chemistry. Way to go Angela!
Shut The Sash 3/9/2023
Congratulations to the group for winning donuts from the University's "Shut the Sash" energy saving competition.
CZI BioHub Chicago 3/2/2023
The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative is launching a new $275M BioHub in Chicago to address immunity and inflammation with quantum sensing as a key technological pillar.
Public Safety Advisory Council 3/1/2023
Thank you to Indranil Ghosh for representing all of us on the the University of Chicago’s Public Safety Advisory Council.
Paper Accepted 2/15/2023
Congratulations to Indranil Ghosh, Sid Sohoni, and all our collaborators in the Lin Group on having our paper entitled, "Two-Dimensional Nanosonosensitizers Facilitate Energy Transfer to Enhance Sonodynamic Therapy" accepted at Advanced Materials.
White House Summit 12/2/2022
Greg Engel presented at the National Quantum Initiative Center Summit at the White House to focus on building the country's capabilities and workforce in Quantum Science and Engineering.
New Assistant Professor 11/28/2022
Congratulations to Professor Sara Sohail on accepting her position as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Swarthmore College.
New Graduate Students 11/17/2022
Welcome to Katelyn Feuling, Claire Jones, Keerthi Vaasan, and Emma McNesby, who are joining the group as Graduate Student Researchers.
NSF Fellowship 11/17/2022
Congratulations to Katelyn Feuling on bringing her NSF GRFP Fellowship to the group.
Congratulations 8/23/2022
Congratulations to Prof. Lili Wang on launching her research group at Emory University.
New Graduate Student 8/22/2022
Welcome to Liv Mumma, who is joining the group as a graduate student researcher for the summer.
New Graduate Student 8/15/2022
Welcome to Calvin Raab, who is joining the group as a graduate student researcher for the summer.
New Graduate Student 8/5/2022
Welcome to Katelyn Feuling, who is joining the group as a graduate student researcher for the summer!
Welcome 7/13/2022
Welcome to Angela Johnson who is joining the group for the summer from Chicago State University
Welcome 7/13/2022
Welcome to Emma McNesby who is joining the group for the summer before starting graduate school in the fall.
Welcome 7/1/2022
Welcome to Eman Sarhan who is joining our group for the summer to work on quantum dynamics and curriculum for deployment within Chicago Public Schools.
New Summer Researcher 7/1/2022
Welcome to Michael Talapin and Sofia Veronesi who are joining the group for the summer researchers.
Fellowship 6/1/2022
Congratulations to Sid Sohoni on receiving a Freud Fellowship from the Chemistry Department to support the next year of his studies.
Congratulations 5/28/2022
Congratulations to Hugh Cairney and Ainsley Iwanicki on receiving Chemistry Department Research Grants to support their summer research.
Congratulations 5/25/2022
Congratulations to Hugh Cairney and Ainsley Iwanicki on receiving Quad Grants to support their summer research.
Paper Accepted 5/12/2022
Congratulations to Jake Higgins, Anna Dardia, Chidera Ndife, Lawson Lloyd, and Elizabeth Bain on having their paper entitled, "Leveraging Dynamical Symmetries in Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectra to Extract Population Transfer Pathways" accepted to Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Service Award 5/11/2022
Congratulations to Indranil Ghosh on being awarded a Distinguished Leadership & Service Award from UChicagoGrad in recognition of this diligent work while serving as a vice-president on the Grad Council.
Congratulations 4/23/2022
Best of luck to Elizabeth Bain as she departs to start her new position at Intel!
Congratulations 4/23/2022
Best of luck to Lawson Lloyd as he departs to start his postdoc at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin!
New Graduate Student 4/22/2022
Welcome to Rachel Leech, who is joining the group as a graduate researcher.
New Assistant Professor 4/18/2022
Congratulations to Prof. Lili Wang on accepting a position as an Assistant Professor in Emory University's Chemistry Department! We are excited to see the great science produced by the Wang Group.
Ph.D. 4/8/2022
Congratulations to Dr. Jake Higgins on the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation!
Congratulations 4/5/2022
Congratulations to Anna Dardia on accepting an offer from UCSB Physics for her graduate studies.
NSF Fellowships 4/4/2022
Congratulations to Caitlin Bellora, Olivia Wedig, and Katelyn Feuling on receiving NSF GRFP fellowships!
Congratulations 3/21/2022
Congratulations to Dr. Karen Watters on her promtion to a Grant Writing Specialist position. Thank you, Karen, for all that you do for us!
Travel Grant 3/16/2022
Congratulations to Sid Sohoni on winning a travel grant from the Grad Council to attend a Cordon Research Conference this summer.
Ph.D. 3/9/2022
Congratulations to Dr. Lawson Lloyd on the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation!
Ph.D. 3/1/2022
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Bain on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation!
Engel appointed in Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering 2/13/2022
Greg Engel has been appointed as a Professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. The Engel Group is delighted to work alongside other groups in engineering at UChicago.
Travel Award 2/12/2022
Congratulations to Sid Sohoni on winning a Windt Travel Award to support his presentation at a conference this summer.
Congratulations 2/1/2022
Best of luck to Sarah Zinn as she starts her new position in the Center for Laboratory Safety at UCLA!
Fellowship 1/31/2021
Congratulations to Hugh Cairney on receiving a Quad Research Fellowship to fund his research in the group.
Paper Accepted 12/16/2021
Congratulations to Polina Navotnaya, Sid Sohoni, Lawson Lloyd, Sami Abdulhadi, Po-Chieh Ting, and Jake Higgins on having their paper entitled, "Annihilation of Excess Excitations along Phycocyanin Rods Precedes Downhill Flow to Allophycocyanin Cores in the Phycobilisome of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942" accepted at the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
New Graduate Student 12/6/2021
Welcome to Eric Wu, who is joining the group as a new graduate researcher!
Paper Published 11/30/2021
Congratulations to Jake Higgins, Marco Allodi, Lawson Lloyd, John Otto, Sara Sohail, Ryan Wood, Sara Massey, and Po-Chieh Ting as well as our collaborators in the Blankenship Group on having their paper entitled, "Redox conditions correlated with vibronic coupling modulate quantum beats in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes" published in PNAS.
Congratulations 11/17/2022
Best of luck to Will Hollingsworth as he starts his new position at Intel!
New Graduate Student 11/16/2021
Welcome to Olivia Wedig, who is joining the group as a new graduate researcher!
Ph.D. 11/15/2021
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Zinn on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation!
Fellowship 11/12/2021
Congratulations to Ainsley Iwanicki on receiving a Quad Research Fellowship to fund her research in the group.
Quals Passed 11/4/2021
Congratulations to Caitlin Bellora, Indranil Ghosh, Coco Li, and Qijie Shen on passing their candidacy exams. Well done!
Good luck! 10/12/2021
Good luck to Dr. Po-Chieh Ting as he starts his new position at EPA in California!
Congratulations 10/1/2021
Congratulations to Will Hollingsworth on accepting a job at Intel Corp.
Fellowship 9/15/2021
Congratulation to Pete Dahlberg on receiving SLAC's ,a href="https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2021-09-13-peter-dahlberg-and-benjamin-ofori-okai-receive-2021-panofsky-fellowships-slac.aspx">Panofsky fellowship!
Congratulations 9/13/2021
Congratulations to Elizabeth Bain on accepting a job at Intel Corp.
In the news... 9/2/2021
The NSF QuBBE QLCI has officially launched! Here is the NSF announcement. and here is an article from UChicago News on NSF QuBBE
Book Chapter Accepted 8/19/2021
Congratulations to Jake Higgins, Will Hollingsworth, and Lawson Lloyd on having their manuscript entitled, "Quantum Coherence in Chemical and Photobiological Systems" accepted as a book chapter in "Emerging Trends in Chemical Applications of Lasers." to be published by ACS Books.
New Graduate Student 8/10/2021
Welcome to Sam Knight, an incoming Chemistry Graduate Student, joining us for the summer.
New Graduate Students 7/19/2021
Welcome to Olivia Wedig and Rachel Leech, who are incoming Chemistry Graduate Students and are joining us for the summer.
Paper Accepted 7/16/2021
Congratulations to Sid Sohoni and our collaborators in the Galli Group on having their paper, entitled "Spatial Patterns of Light-harvesting Antenna Complex Arrangements Tune the Transfer-to-trap Efficiency of Excitons in Purple Bacteria" accepted at JPCL.
Congratulations 6/10/2021
Congratulations to Dr. Polina Navotnaya on the conferral of her PhD!
Congratulations 6/10/2021
Congratulations to Karen Ji on the conferral of her Bachelors!
Paper Published 6/5/2021
Congratulations to Lawson Lloyd, Ryan Wood, Sid Sohoni, Karen Ji, Po-Chieh Ting, Jake Higgins, and our collaborators in the Park Group on having their paper entitled, "Sub-10 fs Intervalley Exciton Coupling in Monolayer MoS2 Revealed by Helicity-Resolved Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy" published in ACS Nano.
Congratulations 5/30/2021
Congratulations to Dr. Polina Navotnaya accepting a position at Lam Research.
Ph.D. 5/24/2021
Congratulations to the future Dr. Po-Chieh Ting on successfully defending his doctoral thesis! Way to go Po-Chieh!
Congratulations 5/13/2021
Congratulations to Sarah Zinn on having her nation-wide chemical safety journal club highlighted in ACS Chemical Health and Safety.
Ph.D. 5/11/2021
Congratulations to the future Dr. Polina Navotnaya on successfully defending her doctoral thesis! Way to go Polina!
Fellowship 5/6/2021
Congratulations to Kirk Lancaster on being awarded a Knight-Hennessy Fellowship to attend Stanford Law School.
New Undergraduate Researchers 4/16/2021
Welcome to Hugh Cairney, Malachi Elue, Ainsley Iwanicki, and Sarah Martin who are joining the group as undergraduate researchers.
Congratulations 4/11/2021
Congratulations to Karen Ji on deciding to attend Northwestern's Chemistry Doctoral Program near year. Well done, Karen!!
In the news... 3/11/2021
Jake Higgins's paper has been written up in Science Alert.
Popular Press Coverage 3/10/2021
Jake Higgins's paper has been featured in PhysOrg, SciTech Daily and Futurity.
In the news... 3/9/2021
Jake Higgins's paper has been highlighted by UChicago News and posted on Eurekalert.
Paper Published 3/8/2021
Congratulations to Jake Higgins, Lawson Lloyd, Sara Sohail, Marco Allodi, John Otto, Ryan Wood, Po-Chieh Ting and our collaborators in the Blankenship Group on their paper being published in PNAS. The paper is entitled, "Photosynthesis tunes quantum mechanical mixing of electronic and vibrational states to steer exciton energy transfer".
Paper Accepted 3/4/2021
Congratulations to Brian Rolczynski, Shu-Hao Yeh, Polina Navotnaya, Lawson Lloyd, Ruvim Ginzburg, Haibin Zheng, Marco Allodi, John Otto and our collaborators in the Cogdell and Kais Groups on their paper entitled, "Time-domain Line-shape Analysis from 2D Spectroscopy to Precisely Determine Hamiltonian Parameters for a Photosynthetic Complex" being accepted to J. Phys Chem B.
ACS CHAS Award 3/3/2021
Congratulations to Sarah Zinn on receiving the ACS Chemical Health and Safety Graduate Student Safety Leadership Award!
Welcome 2/25/2021
Welcome to Rudy Mendez Reina, who is joining the group from the Biophysical Sciences Program.
Good luck! 12/15/2020
Congratulations to Marco Allodi on starting his new position at Bain and Co. Good luck, Marco!
New Graduate Students 12/7/2020
Welcome to Indranil Ghosh, Qijie Shen, Caitlin Bellora, and Coco Li who have joined the group as graduate researchers.
Paper Published 12/7/2020
Congratulations to Lawson Lloyd, Ryan Wood, Marco Allodi, Sid Sohoni, Jake Higgins, and John Otto on their paper entitled, "Leveraging scatter in two-dimensional spectroscopy: passive phase drift correction enables a global phasing protocol," being published in Optics Express.
Congratulations 9/15/2020
Dr. Richard Mazuski is off to start his new position at McKinsey and Co. Congratulations, Richard! We wish you well.
Congratulations 7/10/2020
Dr. Ryan Wood is off to start his new position at Intel. Congratulations, Ryan! We wish you well.
Paper Accepted 7/9/2020
Sara Sohail, John Otto, Ryan Wood, Marco Allodi, and Jake Higgins have had their paper entitled "DNA scaffold supports long-lived vibronic coherence in an indodicarbocyanine (Cy5) dimer" has been accepted to Chemical Science. The paper was written in collaboration with Joe Melinger, Paul Cunningham and Youngchan Kim at NRL.
Research Resumption 6/17/2020
We are back in the lab doing our research safely and efficiently
Congratulations 6/13/2020
Congratulations to Ryan Wood on receiving his very real PhD at our virtual convocation.
Congratulations 6/13/2020
Congratulations to James Hayman on receiving his bachelor's degree from UChicago. Well done, James! We have loved working with you.
Ph.D. 5/29/2020
Congratulations to Dr. Richard Mazuski on the successfully defending his PhD thesis. Well done, Richard!
Paper Published 5/6/2020
Congratulations to Richard Mazuski, Ryan Wood, and Lawson Lloyd as well as our collaborators in the Medintz and Melinger groups at NRL on the publication of their paper entitled, "Ultrafast Excitation Transfer in Cy5 DNA Photonic Wires Displays Dye Conjugation and Excitation Energy Dependency", in JPCL.
Ph.D. 4/30/2020
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Wood on the successfully defending his PhD thesis. Well done, Ryan!
NDSEG Fellowship 4/20/2020
Congratulations to Sami Abdulhadi on receiving an NDSEG fellowship from the US Department of Defense.
Congratulations 4/15/2020
Congratulations to Charles Chen on his acceptance of his letter of admission to Yale University.
New Postdoctoral Scholar 4/1/2020
Welcome to Dr. Will Hollingsworth, who is joining the group as a postdoctoral Scholar.
Paper Published 3/13/2020
Congratulations to Ryan Wood, Lawson Lloyd, Lili Wang, Marco Allodi, Richard Mazuski, Po-Chieh Ting and our collaborators in the Park Group on the publication in JPCL of their paper entitled "Evidence for the Dominance of Carrier-Induced Band Gap Renormalization over Biexciton Formation in Cryogenic Ultrafast Experiments on MoS2 Monolayers".
Paper Published 3/10/2020
Congratulations to Sarah Zinn on publishing a paper on the Joint Research Safety Initiative in ACS Chem Health and Safety
Paper Published 2/27/2020
Congratulations to Ryan Wood, Lawson Lloyd, Lili Wang, Marco Allodi, Richard Mazuski, Po-Chieh Ting and our collaborators in the Park Group on the publication in Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXIV of their proceeding entitled "Biexcitons do not form in MoS2 monolayers from optical pumping at 6 K".
Congratulations 3/10/2020
Best of luck to Sami Abdulhadi on starting his position as a polymer chemistry at Plaskipak Packaging Inc.
Congratulations 1/20/2020
Best of luck to Dr. Sara Sohail on starting her postdoc in Hoi Sung Chung's group at NIH
Ph.D. 12/6/2020
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Sara Sohail on defending her thesis
New Undergraduate Researcher 9/30/2019
Welcome to Anna Dardia, who is joining the group as an undergraduate researcher.
New Support 7/23/2019
We have received funding from DOE to study in vivo energy transfer in cyanobacteria. Many thanks to DOE for supporting our reserach.
New Summer Researcher 7/22/2019
Welcome to Kathryn Segner, who is joining the group as a summer researcher.
Paper Published 6/25/2019
Congratulations to Lili Wang and Marco Allodi on having their paper entitled, "Quantum coherences reveal excited state dynamics in biophysical systems", published in Nature Reviews Chemistry.
New Summer Researcher 6/24/2019
Welcome to Charles Chen, who is joining the group as a summer researcher.
Congratulations 6/15/2019
Congratulations to Sara Massey (Ph.D.), Nick Williams (Ph.D), and Nick Cleland (S.B.) on having their degrees conferred at convocation.
Congratulations 6/8/2019
Congratulations to Sara Massey and family on the arrival of their daughter, Ava Massey.
Summer Fellowship 5/19/2019
Congratulations to James Hayman on receiving a Summer Research Fellowship from the Chemistry Department.
Service Award 5/17/2019
Congratulations to Jake Higgins on receiving the Joan Shiu Departmental Service Award recognizing his outstanding contributions to our department.
Teaching Award 5/17/2019
Congratulations to Sami Abdulhadi on winning the Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award recognizing his excellent teaching in UChicago's general chemistry courses.
New Support 5/8/2019
We have received funding from NSF to study Chiral Rates and Dynamics. Many thanks to NSF for supporting our reserach.
Congratulations 5/2/2019
Congratulations to Sarah Zinn on being named a "2019 Unsung Hero" by the UChicago Center for Leadership and Involvement
Ph.D. 4/19/2019
Congratulations to Dr. Sara Massey on successfully defending her thesis.
Congratulations 4/15/2019
Congratulations to Danika Nimlos on accepting her offer to matriculate at Caltech to pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry!
Congratulations 4/15/2019
Congratulations to Nick Cleland on accepting his offer to matriculate at University of Colorado, Denver to pursue an M.D.!
Ph.D. 3/1/2019
Congratulations to Dr. Nick Williams on successfully defending his thesis.
Congratulations 2/16/2019
Congratulations to Jake Higgins on advancing the Graduate Recruitment Initiative Team and helping to diversify our Division.
New Undergraduate Researcher 2/7/2019
Welcome to James Hayman, who is joining the group as a new undergraduate researcher.
New Masters Student 1/8/2019
Welcome to Syrian Truong, who is joining the group as a new Masters Student in the Physical Sciences.
Paper Published 1/1/2019
Congratulations to Sara Massey, Po-Chieh Ting, Shu-Hao Yeh, Pete Dahlberg, Sara Sohail, Marco Allodi, and our collaborators in the Kais group and Hunter Group on having their paper entitled, "Orientational Dynamics of Transition Dipoles and Exciton Relaxation in LH2 from Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Anisotropy", published online in JPCL.
New Assistant Professor 12/19/2018
Congratulations to Professor Moira Flanagan on accepting a tenure-track assistant professor position in Allegheny College's Chemistry Department.
New Assistant Professor 12/13/2018
Congratulations to Professor Sara Massey on accepting a tenure-track assistant professor position at Southwestern University's Chemistry Department.
New Graduate Students 11/30/2018
Welcome to Siddhartha Sohoni and Sami Abdulhadi, who are joining the group as new graduate students.
Paper Accepted 11/22/2018
Congratulations to Andrew Hu and our other collaborators in the Kais group on having our paper entitled, "Double-excitation manifold’s effect on exciton transfer dynamics and the efficiency of coherent light harvesting" accepted to PCCP.
New Undergraduate Researcher 10/18/2018
Welcome to Karen Ji! Karen is a new undergraduate researcher in the group.
Paper Accepted 10/4/2018
Congratulations to Nick Williams and Lili Wang as well as our collaborators in the Talapin and Schaller Groups on having their paper entitled, "The origin of broad emission spectra in InP quantum dots: contributions from structural and electronic disorder", accepted to JACS.
Benjamin Ball Freud Teaching Fellow 9/27/2018
Sara Massey was named the inaugural Benjamin Ball Freud Teaching Fellow in the Department of Chemistry. Sara will teach the Chemistry 101-102 sequence, an intensive, two-quarter general chemistry sequence with a rigorous active learning curriculum.
Good luck! 9/17/2018
Good luck to Lili Wang in her new position as a postdoc at MIT with Moungi Bawendi's group!
Congratulations 9/13/2018
Congratulations to Elizabeth Bain on being voted one of the Chemsitry Department Ombudspeople.
Congratulations 8/24/2018
Congratulations to Kirk Lancaster on his graduation with honors from the College.
Poster Award 8/22/2018
Congratulations to Sara Sohail on winning the PHYS Division Poster Award at the Boston ACS Meeting for her poster entitled, "Following excitonic pathways in cyanobacteria by 2D electronic spectroscopy".
Congratulations 8/20/2018
Congratulations to Ryan Wood, Sara Sohail, and Sara Massey on presenting their work at the 256th ACS National Meeting.
Congratulations 8/15/2018
Congratulations to Kirk Lancaster on his new position at the Stimson Center.
Paper Published 8/9/2018
Congratulations to Shu-Hao Yeh, Marco Allodi and our collaborators in the Kais group on having their paper entitled,"Elucidation of near-resonance vibronic coherence lifetimes by nonadiabatic electronic-vibrational state character mixing" published in PNAS.
Congratulations 8/1/2018
Congratulations to Brian Rolczynski on starting his new position at the Naval Research Laboratory.
New Graduate Student 7/30/2018
Welcome to Sarah Willson who is a new graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and is joining us for the summer.
Girls 4 Science Event 7/21/2017
Elizabeth Bain organized a "Girls 4 Science" event for over 200 young female scientists with help from Sarah Zinn, Polina Navotnaya, and Jake Higgins
New Summer Researcher 6/18/2018
Welcome to Sofia Kouri who is joining the group as a summer researcher
New Technician 6/11/2018
Welcome to Danika Nimlos, who has joined the group as a laboratory technician
Congratulations 6/9/2018
Congratulations to John Otto (Ph.D), Jonathan Michelsen (S.B.), and Dario Nuñez (A.B.) on their graduation!
Paper Accepted 5/16/2018
Our paper in collaboration with the Kais group entitled "Connecting bright and dark states through accidental degeneracy caused by lack of symmetry" has been accepted to JCP.
Honors Thesis 5/8/2018
Congratulations to Jonathan Michelsen on completing and submitting his undergraduate honors thesis on twisted light spectroscopy.
Alumni Association Award 5/3/2018
Congratulations to Dario Nuñez on receiving the Howell Murray Alumni Association Award, one of the highest honors given by the College.
Service Award 5/2/2018
Congratulations to Polina Navotnaya on receiving the Joan Shiu Chemistry Department Student Service Award.
Travel Grant 4/30/2018
Congratulations to Sara Sohail on receiving a Windt Travel Grant.
Congratulations 4/27/2018
Congratulations to Lili Wang on receiving the 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad from the Chinese Scholarship Council.
Ph.D. 4/26/2018
Congratulations to Dr. John Otto on successfully defending his thesis.
NDSEG Fellowship 4/13/2018
Congratulations to Sarah Zinn on receiving an NDSEG fellowship from the Department of Defense
Congratulations 4/6/2018
Congratulations to Sarah Zinn on presenting her research in Phoenix at the national meeting of the Materials Research Society.
NSF Fellowships 4/3/2018
Congratulations to Jake Higgins and Elizabeth Bain in receiving NSF GRFP Fellowships!
Travel Grant 3/19/2018
Congratulations to Sarah Zinn on receiving a travel grant from the UChicago Grad Council.
Paper Published 3/15/2018
Congratulations to John Otto, Lili Wang and our many collaborators in the Aspuru-Guzik, Bao, and Chiu groups on having their paper entitled, "Disentanglement of Excited-State Dynamics with Implications for FRET Measurements: Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of a BODIPY-Functionalized Cavitand" published in Chemical Science.
Congratulations 3/9/2018
Congratulations to Carlos Olivares on his acceptance to the Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program at the University of Toronto.
Congratulations 3/5/2018
Congratulations to Carlos Olivares on his acceptance to the Brown University Summer Research-Early Identification Program (SR-EIP).
Paper Accepted 1/25/2018
Our paper in collaboration with Kais and Al-Harbi groups entitled "Dark states and delocalization: competing effects of quantum coherence on the efficiency of light harvesting systems" has been accepted to JCP.
Paper Published 1/11/2018
Congratulations to Brian Rolczynski, Haibin Zheng, Ved Singh, Polina Navotnaya, Ruvim Ginzburg, Justin Caram, and Shu-Hao Yeh as well as our collaborators in the Kais and Cogdell Groups on having their paper published to Chem. Thanks to Margherita Maiuri and Greg Scholes for writing a nice Preview piece highlighting this work.
Paper Published 1/10/2018
Congratulations to Lili Wang, Pete Dahlberg, John Otto, Nick Williams as well as our collaborators in the Galli and Tiede groups on having their paper entitled, "Excitations Partition into Two Distinct Populations in Bulk Perovskites", published in Advanced Optical Materials.
Paper Published 12/21/2017
Congratulations to Lili Wang and Alex Filatov on having their paper entitled, "Crystal structure of 4'-Allyl-4,5,6,7,2',7'-hexachlorofluorescein allyl ester solvate", published in Acta Crystallographica E
Paper Published 12/13/2017
Congratulations to Marco Allodi, John Otto, Sara Sohail, Ryan Wood, Brian Rolczynski, Sara Massey, and Po-Chieh Ting as well as our collaborators in the Blankenship Group on having their paper entitled, "Redox Conditions Affect Ultrafast Exciton Transport in Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes", published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Congratulations 12/4/2017
Congratulations to John Otto on accepting a position at Intel Corporation as an Engineer
New Support 11/13/2017
We have received funding from AFOSR for a collaborative project with the Talapin Group to explore optical 3D printing of semiconducting systems. Many thanks to the AFOSR for sponsoring our research.
Paper Published 10/17/2017
Congratulations to Pete Dahlberg, Po-Chieh Ting, Sara Massey, Marco Allodi and our collaborators in the Hunter Group on having their manuscript entitled, "Mapping the ultrafast flow of harvested solar energy in living photosynthetic cells" published in Nature Communications.
Ph.D. 9/30/2017
Congratulations to Dr. Haibin Zheng, who successfully defended his thesis today.
Paper Accepted 9/15/2017
Congratulations to Sara Sohail, Pete Dahlberg, Marco Allodi, Sara Massey, Po-Chieh Ting and our collaborators in the Hunter Group on having their paper entitled, "Broad Manifold of Excitonic States in Light-Harvesting Complex 1 Promotes Efficient Unidirectional Energy Transfer in vivo", accepted to JCP as a Communication.
New Chemist in the Family 9/10/2017
Madeleine Engel arrived on 9/10/2017 (3220 g, 533 mm) and is ready to get to work.
World Economic Forum 6/28/2017
Greg Engel participates in World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of New Champions 2017 in Dalian, China.
New Scientific Editor 6/26/2017
Welcome to Dr. Karen Watters, who is joining the Group as a Scientific Editor.
Congratulations 6/10/2017
Congratulations to Ruvim Ginzburg on his graduation with honors. We wish him well next year at the University of Toronto
Elected to College Council 6/7/2017
Greg Engel has been elected to The College Council at the University of Chicago
New Summer Researcher 6/5/2017
Welcome to Ethan Bosch, who is joining the group as a Summer Researcher
Astronaut Scholarship 5/26/2017
Congratulations to Kirk Lancaster on his winning an Astronaut Scholarship. This award recognizes top Science and Technology undergraduates dedicated to making positive change in the world around them.
Summer Fellowship 5/21/2017
Congratulations to Carlos Olivares on receiving a Metcalf Fellowship to support his research during the Summer.
Honors Thesis 5/16/2017
Congratulations to Ruvim Ginzburg on completing his undergraduate honors thesis on "Correlated Nuclear Motion for Long-Lived Quantum Coherences in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex".
Summer Fellowships 5/15/2017
Congratulations to Nick Cleland, Dario Nunez, and Carlos Olivares on their receiving Summer Research Fellowships from the Department of Chemistry.
Congratulations 5/9/2017
Congratulations to Brian Rolczynski, Haibin Zheng, and Sara Massey on the upcoming births of our next generation of chemists.
NDSEG Fellowship 5/9/2017
Congratulations to Sara Sohail on receiving a Department of Defense NDSEG fellowship!
Thesis Award 5/5/2017
Congratulations to Lili Wang on receiving the Yang Cao-Lan-Xian Best Thesis Award.
Service Award 5/5/2017
Congratulations to Sara Massey on receiving the Joan Shiu Student Service Award.
Congratulations 5/4/2017
Congratulations to Ruvim Ginzburg on securing a position in Mark Wilson's research group at the University of Toronto for next year!
Summer Fellowship 4/27/16
Congratulations to Jonathan Michelsen on being awarded a Jeff Metcalf IME Fellowship Grant to support his research this summer.
New Undergraduate Researcher 4/12/2017
Welcome to Carlos Olivares, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
New Assistant Professor 4/11/2017
Congratulations to Prof. Dugan Hayes on accepting an assistant professor position with the University of Rhode Island Chemistry Department! We are excited to see the launch of the Hayes Group.
C&E News Coverage 4/3/2017
C&E News has covered our recent development of Optical Resonance Imaging by Marco Allodi, John Otto, Richard Mazuski, and Ryan Wood.
New Assistant Professor 3/26/2017
Congratulations to Prof. Justin Caram on accepting an assistant professor position with the UCLA Chemistry Department! We are excited to see great work flow out of the Caram Group.
NSF Fellowship 3/17/2017
Richard Mazuski receives an NSF GRFP Fellowship.
NSF GRFP Honorable Mention 3/17/2017
Sara Sohail and Sarah Zinn receive Honorable Mention from the NSF Graduate Fellowship Competition
World Economic Forum 3/16/2017
Greg Engel named one of the World Economic Forum's 50 Young Scientists for 2017.
Ph.D. 3/15/2017
Congratulations to Dr. Lili Wang on successfully defending her thesis.
New Undergraduate Researcher 3/10/2017
Welcome to Nick Cleland, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship 2/22/2017
Congratulations to Marco Allodi on receiving a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Paper Published 2/21/2017
Congratulations to Lili Wang, Graham Griffin, Alice Zhang, Nick Williams, and our collaborators in the Jordan Group on having their paper, entitled "Controlling quantum-beating signals in 2D electronic spectra by packing synthetic heterodimers on single-walled carbon nanotubes" published in Nature Chemistry.
Paper Accepted 2/15/2017
Congratulations to Lili Wang, Nick Williams, John Otto, Dugan Hayes, and Ryan Wood along with our collaborators in the Guyot-Sionnest Group on having their paper entitled, "Scalable Ligand-Mediated Transport Synthesis of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Nanocrystals with Resolved Electronic Structure and Ultrafast Dynamics," accepted to ACS Nano.
Congratulations 2/9/2017
Congratulations to Matthew Talaga on receiving an offer for a summer internship at AFRL in Albuquerque, NM.
Quals Passed 2/7/2017
Congratulations to Richard Mazuski, Sara Sohail, Ryan Wood and Sarah Zinn on passing their qualifying examination and being admitted to candidacy.
Paper Published 11/15/2016
Congratulations to Wave Wang, Moira Flanagan, Ryan McGillicuddy, Haibin Zheng, and Ruvim Ginzburg on their paper, entitled "Bacteriophytochrome Photoisomerization Proceeds Homogeneously Despite Heterogeneity in Ground State", publishing in Biophysical Journal. Thanks also to our collaborators, Profs. Keith Moffat and Xiaojing Yang.
Paper Published 11/8/2016
Congratulations to Marco Allodi, Pete Dahlberg, Richard Mazuski, Hunter Davis and John Otto on having their paper entitled, "Optical resonance imaging: An optical analog to MRI with sub-diffraction-limited capabilities" published in ACS Photonics
New Graduate Students 10/26/2016
Welcome to Elizabeth Bain, Jake Higgins and Lawson Lloyd, who are joining the group as Graduate Student Researchers.
Fellowship 10/11/2016
Congratulations to Nick Lewis on receiving the Yen Postdoctoral Fellowship at UChicago to work with Andrei Tokmakoff's group. We are delighted to welcome Nick home to UChicago.
New Undergraduate Researcher 10/7/2016
Welcome to Dario Nuñez who is joining the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Teaching Award 10/5/2016
Congratulations to Pete Dahlberg on receiving recognition from the Biological Sciences Division for his excellent teaching within the Biophysical Sciences Program.
Ph.D. 9/1/2016
Congratulations to Dr. Moira Flanagan on successfully defending her doctoral dissertation.
Chair of the PHYS Division of ACS 8/27/2016
Greg Engel is now the Chair of the Physical Chemistry (PHYS) Division of the American Chemical Society.
New Postdoctoral Scholar 8/15/2016
Welcome to Shu-Hao Yeh, who is joining us as a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar from QEERI in Qatar.
Merck Research Award 8/5/2016
Sara Massey has been featured by the ACS's Women Chemists Committee in recognition of her Merck/ACS Research Award.
Welcome 8/1/2016
Welcome to Brenda Thomas who will be providing administrative support to our group. We wish Kathleen Conroy well in her future endeavors and thank her for 11 years of service to The University of Chicago.
In the news... 7/29/2016
Our work has been featured on the JCP Facebook page as one of the 2015 JCP Editor's Choice selections. Congratulations to Pete Dahlberg, Graham Norris, Wave Wang, Subha Viswanathan, and Ved Singh.
Ph.D. 7/28/2016
Congratulations to Dr. Pete Dahlberg on successfully defending his doctoral dissertation.
New Laboratory Space 7/28/2016
The Group will be constructing new spectrometers in our new lab space in the subbasement of GCIS.
Paper Published 7/20/2016
Congratulations to Brian Rolczynski, Polina Navotnaya, and Hallie Sussman on their commentary piece entitled, "Cysteine-mediated mechanism disrupts energy transfer to prevent photooxidation", which published today in PNAS.
New Graduate Student 7/18/2016
Welcome to Jake Higgins, who is joining the group for the summer as a new Graduate Student Researcher in the Department of Chemistry.
New Graduate Student 7/11/2016
Welcome to Lawson Lloyd who is joining the group for the summer as a new Graduate Student Researcher in the Department of Chemistry.
Congratulations 6/11/2016
Congratulations to Ved Singh, and Alice Zhang on having their degrees conferred today. We wish them luck in their future endeavors.
In the news... 6/11/2016
James Anderson (Greg's Ph.D. Adviser) receives the Benton Medal for Distinguished Public Service at UChicago's Convocation ceremony.
Elected to Council of the University Senate 6/7/2016
Greg Engel has been elected to The Council of the University Senate at UChicago
New Support 6/5/2016
We have received funding from the Qatar National Research Foundation to undertake a new project on solar light harvesting in collaboration with Sabre Kais and Fahhad al Harbi at QEERI. We thank QNRF for their support of our work and look forward to this collaborative effort.
New Undergraduate Researcher 6/1/2016
Welcome to Kirk Lancaster who is joining the group as a new Undergraduate Researcher.
New Graduate Student 5/31/2016
Welcome to Sarah Zinn who is joining the group as a new Chemistry Graduate Student.
Paper Accepted 5/26/2016
Congratulations to Pete Dahlberg, Po-Chieh Ting, Sara Massey and co-authors on having their paper entitled "Electronic Structure And Dynamics Of Higher-Lying Excited States In Light Harvesting Complex 1 From Rhodobacter sphaeroides" accepted to Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Summer Fellowship 5/26/2016
Congratulations to Jonathan Michelsen on receiving a Metcalf summer research fellowship from the College to support his research with Peter Jepsen in Denmark.
Summer Fellowship 5/26/2016
Congratulations to Matthew Talaga on receiving a summer research fellowship from the Chemsitry department.
Teaching Award 5/18/2016
Congratulations to Sara Hess on winning the Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award from the Department of Chemistry.
Ph.D. 5/12/2016
Congratulations to Dr. Ved Singh on successfully defending his dissertation!
Travel Grant 5/12/2016
Congratulations to John Otto on receiving a travel grant to attend a Gordon Research Seminar on Molecular Dynamics and Spectroscopy this summer where he will give an oral presentation.
Summer Fellowship 4/20/2016
Congratulations to Ruvim Ginzburg on winning a summer fellowship to study in Hong Kong at CUHK.
New Graduate Student 4/19/2016
Welcome to Hallie Sussman who is joining the group as a new graduate student researcher in the Biophysical Sciences Program.
Quals Passed 4/6/2016
Congratulations to Polina Navotnaya on passing her qualifying exam.
NDSEG Fellowship 4/1/2016
Congratulations Ryan Wood on receiving an NDSEG fellowship from the Department of Defense!
Editors' Choice Selection 3/10/2016
Congratulations to Pete Dahlberg, Graham Norris, Wave Wang, Subha Viswanathan, and Ved Singh on having their paper selected for the 2015 JCP Editor's Choice as one of the top papers of 2015.
Merck Research Award 3/8/2016
Congratulations to Sara Massey on winning a Merck Research Award from ACS and Merck to support her presenting her work at the Fall ACS meeting in Philadelphia.
Travel Grant 3/3/2016
Congratulations to Sara Massey on her winning a Windt Travel grant and UChicago Grad Travel grant to support her presentation at the International Photosynthesis Conference.
New Masters Student 2/12/2016
Welcome to Thomas Gao, who has joined the group as a Masters student.
New Graduate Students 12/15/2015
Welcome to Sara Hess, Richard Mazuski, and Ryan Wood, who have joined the group as Graduate Students.
Paper Accepted 12/1/2015
Congratulations to Moira Flanagan, Phil Long, Pete Dahlberg, Brian Rolczynski, Sara Massey, and co-authors on having her paper entitled, "Mutations to R. sphaeroides Reaction Center Perturb Energy Levels and Vibronic Coupling but Not Observed Energy Transfer Rates" accepted to the Journal of Physical Chemistry!
New Undergraduate Researcher 9/28/2015
Welcome to Jonathan Michelsen, a new undergraduate researcher in the Group.
Welcome 9/26/2015
Welcome to Sean Harding, who will be joining us in the Group for the year as an exchange student from Edinburgh University.
New Postdoctoral Scholar 7/28/2015
Welcome to Dr. Marco Allodi, a Yen Fellow in the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, who is joining the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
Welcome 7/8/2015
Welcome to Ishaan Dayal who is joining our group for the summer from the UChicago Laboratory School.
New Graduate Students 7/1/2015
Welcome to Ryan Wood, Richard Mazuski, and Curtis Peterson who are new graduate students in the Department of Chemistry and are working with us for the summer.
New Undergraduate Researcher 7/1/2015
Welcome to R.J. Bogdan who is joining our group as a summer undergraduate researcher.
Congratulations 6/20/2015
We offer our congratulations to Ryan McGillicuddy and to Graham Norris on their graduation from UChicago, and we wish them well as they head to graduate school next year at Harvard and ETH , respectively.
New Graduate Student 6/10/2015
Welcome to Nanzhu Li, who is joining our group as a new graduate student researcher.
Congratulations 5/27/2015
Congratulations to Moira Flanagan on receiving the University of Chicago's Wayne C. Booth Prize for undergraduate teaching.
Paper Accepted 5/10/2015
Congratulations to Ved Singh, Michael Westberg, Wave Wang, Pete Dahlberg, Tobias Gellen, and co-authors for having their article entitled, "Toward quantification of vibronic coupling in photosynthetic antenna complexes" accepted to Journal of Chemical Physics.
Teaching Award 5/5/2015
Congratulations to Polina Navotnaya on winning the Chemistry Department's Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award.
New Undergraduate Researcher 4/26/2015
Welcome to Matthew Talaga as a new undergraduate researcher in our group.
NDSEG Fellowship 4/1/2015
Congratulations to Sara Massey on receiving an NDSEG fellowship from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Congratulations 2/10/2015
Congratulations to Prof. Wave Wang on receiving an award from China's Thousand Talents Program for Distinguished Young Scholars.
Congratulations 1/8/2015
Congratulations to Prof. Wave Wang on starting his new research lab as an Assistant Professor at Xiamen University.
New Graduate Student 12/1/2014
Polina Navotnaya has joined the group as a new graduate student!
Promotion 9/3/2014
Greg Engel has been promoted to the rank of Professor at The University of Chicago.
NSSEFF Award 7/16/2014
Greg Engel has been selected as a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF). We appreciate DoD's support of our work.
New Chemist in the Family 7/4/2014
Evan Engel arrived on 5/30/2014 (3120 g, 510 mm) and is ready to get to work.
Ph.D. 6/27/2014
Congratulations to Dr. Kenley Pelzer on successfully defending her thesis.
Summer Fellowship 5/22/2014
Congratulations to Graham Norris on receiving a JFI Summer Research Fellowship.
Congratulations 5/21/2014
Congratulations to Subha Viswanathan on giving birth to her son, Rivan.
Summer Fellowship 5/18/2014
Congratulations to Alice Zhang on receiving an IBD Summer Research Fellowship.
Group Baby Shower 5/16/2014
We offer a hearty welcome to all the new Engel Group members arriving this year at the group baby shower:
Summer Fellowship 5/1/2014
Congratulations to Ryan McGillicuddy on receiving a summer research fellowship to support his working in Hong Kong for the summer!
Teaching Award 4/18/2014
Congratulations to Sara Massey on winning Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award!
Fellowship 4/18/2014
Congratulations to Ved Singh on winning the Olshansky Memorial Departmental Fellowship!
NSF Fellowship 4/2/2014
Congratulations to Nick Williams on receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Fellowship 3/31/2014
Congratulations to Ryan McGillicuddy on receiving a Goldwater Fellowship!
Congratulations 2/14/2014
Congratulations to Prof. Graham Griffin on his accepting a professorship at Depaul University in the Department of Chemistry!
Congratulations 2/12/2014
Congratulations to Kenley Pelzer on the birth of our group's newest chemist!
Paper Accepted 2/12/2014
Haibin Zheng's paper on creating a "Dispersion-Free Continuum Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectrometer" has been accepted to Applied Optics.
Paper Published 2/6/2014
Andrew Fidler's and Ved Singh's paper on "Dynamic localization of electronic excitation in photosynthetic complexes revealed with chiral two-dimensional spectroscopy" has been published in Nature Communications.
Paper Accepted 2/5/2014
Kenley Pelzer's paper on "Coherent Transport and Energy Flow Patterns in Photosynthesis under Incoherent Excitation" has been accepted to J. Phys. Chem. B.
Paper Accepted 2/4/2014
Justin Caram's paper on "Exploring Size and State Dynamics in CdSe Quantum Dots Using Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy" has been accepted to J. Chem. Phys.
New Graduate Students 1/1/2014
Welcome to Po-Chieh Ting, Sara Massey, Nick Williams and John Otto who have now formally joined the group as new graduate students!
Paper Accepted 12/9/2013
Graham Griffin's paper on "Ultrafast energy transfer from rigid, branched side-chains into a conjugated, alternating copolymer" has been accepted to J. Chem. Phys.
Paper Accepted 12/9/2013
Justin Caram's paper on "Persistent Interexcitonic Quantum Coherence in CdSe Quantum Dots" has been accepted to J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
Engel appointed in Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering 12/2/2013
Greg Engel has been appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Physical Chemistry for a two year term commencing in January 2014.
In the news... 11/18/2013
Pete Dahlberg's work has been featured on the New Under the Sun Blog on photosynthesis.
Executive Committee Election 11/11/2013
Greg Engel has been elected to the Executive Committee of the ACS Physical Chemistry Division and will chair the division in 2016-2017.
Congratulations 11/10/2013
Pete Dahlberg has won the "Best Student Talk" award at the 39th Annual 2013 Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Meeting.
FACSS Innovation Award 10/12/2013
Our work has been honored with the 2013 FACSS Innovation Award in recognition of our developing 2D Circular Dichroism spectroscopy and extending 2D spectroscopy to live cells.
Paper Accepted 10/11/2013
Pete Dahlberg's paper on "Energy Transfer Observed In Live Cells Using Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy" has been accepted to J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
Paper Accepted 9/25/2013
Andrew Fidler's paper on "Probing Energy Transfer Events in the Light Harvesting Complex 2 (LH2) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides with Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy" has been accepted to J. Chem. Phys.
Congratulations 9/12/2013
Congratulations to Lane Gunderman on being named one of the country's most impressive high school seniors by Business Insider.
Paper Accepted 8/23/2013
Kenley Pelzer's paper on "The dependence of exciton transport efficiency on spatial patterns of correlation within the spectral bath" has been accepted to New Journal of Physics.
Paper Accepted 8/22/2013
Ved Singh's paper on "Independent phasing of rephasing and non-rephasing 2D electronic spectra" has been accepted to J. Chem Phys.
New Postdoctoral Scholar 8/19/2013
Welcome to Cheng "Wave" Wang, who has joined the group as a postdoctoral scholar.
Fellow of the Institute for Molecular Engineering 8/15/2013
Greg Engel has been named as an inaugural Fellow of the Institute of Molecular Engineering.
Ph.D. 7/11/2013
Congratulations to Dr. Phil Long on successfully defending his dissertation!
Welcome 7/1/2013
Welcome to the new students working with us in the lab for the summer: John Otto, Nick Williams, and Graham Norris.
Editors' Choice Selection 7/1/2013
One of our articles has been selected as an "Editors Choice" article by JCP for 2012.
Congratulations 6/25/2013
Congratulations to Hunter Davis (S.B.) and Michael Westberg Sorensen (S.M) on their recent graduation. We wish Michael well as he heads to Denmark to do his doctoral work at Aarhus University.
Ph.D. 6/21/2013
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Fidler on successfully defending his dissertation!
Ph.D. 6/14/2013
Congratulations to Dr. Justin Caram on successfully defending his dissertation!
Ph.D. 6/10/2013
Congratulations to Dr. Dugan Hayes on successfully defending his dissertation!
DSSG 5/21/2013
Greg Engel has been selected for the IDA-DSSG program for 2014-2015.
Thesis Award 5/13/2013
Congratulations to Dugan Hayes for winning the Yang-Caho-Lan-Xian Best Thesis Award from the Department of Chemistry.
Service Award 5/13/2013
Congratulations to Justin Caram for winning the Edith Barnard Memorial Award for Service from the Department of Chemistry.
Popular Press Coverage 4/19/2013
Our work on quantum materials to mimic photosynthetic systems has been featured on UChicago News, PhysOrg, Science Codex, NewsWise, Science Daily, PhysNews, Chemistry2011, Newsana, DailyMe, and eScienceNews.
Paper Published 4/16/2013
Dugan Hayes's and Graham Griffin's paper showing that quantum effects in biology can be reproduced in synthetic molecules has been published in Science Magazine.
Paper Published 4/12/13
Andrew Fidler's paper on "Time Scales of Coherent Dynamics in the Light-Harvesting Complex 2 (LH2) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides"has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Intel Science Talent Competition 3/12/13
Lane Gunderman presented his work at the Intel Science Talent Show in Washington, DC. Pictured below is Lane with Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.
Welcome 2/5/13
Welcome to Subha Viswanathan who has formally joined our group, though we have been collaborating for years.
In the news... 1/25/13
Lane Gunderman has been featured in the Chicago Tribune.
Paper Accepted 1/24/13
Andrew Fidler's paper on "Nonlinear Spectroscopic Theory of Displaced Harmonic Oscillators with Differing Curvatures: A Correlation Function Approach"has been accepted to the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Intel Science Talent Competition 1/23/13
Lane Gunderman has been named an Intel Science Talent Search 2013 Finalist! Congratulations, Lane!
New Postdoctoral Scholar 1/14/13
Dr. Brian Rolcynzski has joined the Engel Group as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome, Brian!
Intel Science Talent Competition 1/11/13
Lane Gunderman has been named an Intel Science Talent Search 2013 Semifinalist! Congratulations, Lane!
Paper Accepted 12/11/12
Graham Griffin's paper on "Two Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of CdSe Nanoparticles at Very Low Pulse Power" has been accepted to J. Chem Phys.
Project Launch 12/7/12
The launch of our joint project with Profs. Mazziotti and Talapin has been highlighted by UChicago News here and by Laboratory Equipment here.
E. Bright Wilson Lecture Prize 12/5/12
Greg Engel has been honored with the E. Bright Wilson Lecture Prize from Harvard University's Chemistry Department.
Engel appointed in Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering 11/4/12
Greg Engel has been appointed to the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics.
Congratulations 10/29/12
Kelly Fransted has taken a postdoctoral position at Argonne National Laboratories.
Welcome 10/1/12
Michael Westberg Sorensen has joined our group for the year to do his Masters' Thesis.
Journal Cover 9/25/12
Kelly Fransted's paper was featured on the cover of Chemical Physics:
Paper Accepted 8/28/12
Kelly Fransted's paper on "Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of Bacteriochlorophyll a in Solution: Elucidating the Coherence Dynamics of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex Using its Chromophore as a Control" has been accepted to J. Chem. Phys.
Ph.D. 8/14/12
Congratulations to Dr. Kelly Fransted on successfully defending her dissertation!
DTRA Grant 8/1/12
Greg Engel's DTRA research grant has been extended for another two years, and we look forward to continuing this important work for the agency.
Ph.D. 7/25/12
Congratulations to Dr. Gitt Panitchayangkoon on successfully defending her dissertation!
Photo Shoot 7/9/12
Photo shoot for our building's generous donors has yielded some great photos of our laboratories.
Paper Accepted 6/21/12
Justin Caram's paper on "Excited and Ground State Vibrational Dynamics Revealed by Two Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy" has been accepted to The Journal of Chemical Physics.
Welcome 6/13/12
Welcome to Hunter Davis, Ryan McGillicuddy, Tobias Gellen, Amir Khadivi, and Lane Gunderman who have joined the group.
Congratulations 6/10/12
Congratulations to Nick Lewis for graduating with honors.
Welcome 5/31/12
Greg Engel has joined the CIC Academic Leadership Program as a fellow.
Quantrell Award 5/24/12
Greg Engel has been selected to receive a 2012 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. More information on the Quantrell award can be found here.
Paper Accepted 5/9/12
Kelly Fransted's paper on "Probing Vibrational Dynamics of PM650 with Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy" has been accepted to Chemical Physics.
New Support 5/2/12
Greg Engel has been honored with the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. We appreciate the continued support of the Dreyfus foundation.
Paper Accepted 4/27/12
Andrew Fidler's paper on "Toward a Coherent Picture of Excitonic Coherence in the Fenna‐Matthew‐Olson Complex"has been accepted to the Journal of Physics B.
Promotion 4/23/12
Greg Engel has been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor by The University of Chicago effective July 1, 2012.
Paper Accepted 4/3/12
Kenley Pelzer's and Graham Griffin's paper on "Inhomogeneous Dephasing Masks Coherence Lifetimes In Ensemble Measurements"have been accepted to the Journal of Chemical Physics.
Fellowship 4/3/12
Kenley Pelzer has won first place in the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship essay contest for highlighting how computational science directly and positively impacts society and our search for new energy technologies. Her essay will be published shortly in the 2012 edition of DEXIS Magazine. Congratulations Kenley!
NSF Fellowship 3/30/12
Pete Dahlberg has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Pete!
New Support 3/26/12
Greg Engel's DARPA QUBE proposal has been selected for Phase II funding. We thank DARPA for supporting our research.
New Support 2/15/12
Greg Engel has been selected as a 2012 Sloan Foundation Research Fellow. We are grateful to the Sloan Foundation for supporting our research.
Paper Accepted 2/13/12
Justin Caram's paper on "Signatures of Correlated Excitonic Dynamics in Two Dimensional Spectroscopy of the Fenna-Matthew-Olson Photosynthetic Complex" have been accepted to the Journal of Chemical Physics.
New Graduate Student 1/23/12
Welcome to Alex Linkin, who has joined our group as a graduate student.
W.M. Keck Foundation Award 1/1/12
Greg Engel, Dmitri Talapin and David Mazziotti have been selected by the Keck Foundation to pursue new directions using nanoparticles as "Designer Atoms."
New Graduate Student 12/13/11
Welcome to Lili Wang, who has joined our group as a graduate student.
Coblentz Award 12/9/11
Greg Engel has been awarded the 2012 Coblentz Award by the Coblentz Society.
Paper Accepted 12/2/11
Elad Harel's paper on "Quantum Coherence Spectroscopy Reveals Complex Dynamics in Bacterial Light Harvesting Complex 2 (LH2)" has been accepted to PNAS.
Congratulations 11/3/11
Congratulations to Justin Caram on winning a scholarship from the Midwest Society for Cosmetic Chemistry.
Paper Accepted 11/1/11
Andrew Fidler's paper "Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy Can Distinguish Between Decoherence and Dephasing of Zero-Quantum Coherences" has been accepted to Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
New Postdoctoral Scholar 10/25/11
Welcome to Tom Jarvis, who has joined our group as a postdoctoral scholar.
Executive Committee Election 10/24/11
Greg Engel has been elected to the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Laser Science as a "member-at-large."
Paper Accepted 10/19/11
Gitt Panitchayangkoon's and Dmitri Voronine's paper on "Direct Evidence of Quantum Transport in Photosynthetic Light-harvesting Complexes" has been accepted to PNAS. The paper was written in collaboration with Shaul Mukamel's group at UCI.
Welcome 8/24/11
The Engel Group has joined the NSF Chemical Center for Innovation at Purdue University as a Phase II Member to explore Quantum Information for Quantum Chemistry.
Congratulations 8/3/11
Congratulations to Andrew Fidler for winning an award in the poster competition at the International Quantum Effects in Biological Systems conference in Ulm, Germany.
Fellowship 7/22/11
Congratulations to Kenley Pelzer for winning an award in the poster contest at the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Conference.
Paper Accepted 7/1/11
Dugan Hayes's paper "Peak shape analysis of diagonal and off-diagonal features in the 2D electronic spectra of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex" has been accepted to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
ICAM 6/25/11
ICAM has highlighted Elad Harel's work in the group and our collaboration with the Weizmann Institute. See the full article from ICAM here.
Welcome 6/20/11
Welcome to Joe Turner and Jorge Jimenez who have joined us for the summer.
New Graduate Students 6/17/11
Welcome to graduate students Peter Dahlberg and Kenley Pelzer who have joined the group.
Welcome 6/1/11
Welcome to undergraduates Hunter Davis and Nate McConnell who have joined the group.
Service Award 5/5/11
Congratulations to Justin Caram and Dugan Hayes on their departmental service awards!
Paper Accepted 4/25/11
Justin Caram's paper on "Extracting Dynamics of Excitonic Coherences in Congested Spectra of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Antenna Complexes" has been accepted by Faraday Discussions.
Fellowship 4/1/11
Congratulations to Gitt Panitchayangkoon on her NSF EAPSI fellowship!
Paper Accepted 3/1/11
Elad Harel's paper on "Single-shot Ultrabroadband Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of the Light-harvesting Complex LH2" has been accepted by Optics Letters.
Paper Accepted 2/15/11
Dugan Hayes's paper on "Robustness of electronic coherence in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex to vibronic and structural modifications." has been accepted by Faraday Discussions.
Congratulations 1/15/11
Congratulations to Joe Turner for being named an Intel Science and Technology Semi-Finalist!
Paper Accepted 12/8/10
Dugan Hayes's paper on "Extracting the excitonic Hamiltonian of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex using three-dimensional electronic spectroscopy" has been accepted to Biophysical Journal.
Kavli Frontiers of Science 12/6/10
Greg Engel participated in the National Academies of Science Japanense-American Frontiers of Science meeting sponsored by the Kavli Foundation.
Paper Accepted 11/1/10
Elad Harel's and Andrew Fidler's paper on "Single-Shot GRadient-Assisted Photon Echo Electronic Spectroscopy" has been accepted to the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Congratulations 10/31/10
Congratulations to Gitt Panitchayangkoon for winning an ISPR Poster Prize at the Midwest Photosynthesis Conference.
Solvay Meeting 10/13/10
Greg Engel participated in the 22nd Solvay Meeting on Chemistry: Quantum Effects in Chemistry and Biology.
Paper Published 9/14/10
Andrew Fidler's paper on "Dissecting Hidden Couplings Using Fifth-Order Three-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy"has published in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Poster Award 8/25/10
Congratulations to Dugan Hayes and Sara Wichner for winning "Best Poster" awards at the 2010 Autumn ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA.
Paper Accepted 8/3/10
Elad Harel's paper on "Real-time Mapping of Electronic Structure with Single-shot Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy" has been accepted to PNAS.
New Support 6/21/10
Greg Engel's DARPA QUBE proposal has been selected for funding. We thank DARPA for supporting our research.
New Support 6/3/10
Greg Engel has received a DTRA Young Investigator award. We thank DTRA for supporting our research.
Paper Accepted 5/28/10
Dugan Hayes's paper on "Dynamics of electronic dephasing in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex" has been accepted to the New Journal of Physics.
Fellowship 4/29/10
Phil Long has been awarded a DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE-SCGF). Congratulations Phil!
New Support 4/22/10
Greg Engel has been honored with a DARPA Young Faculty Award. We thank DARPA for supporting our research.
Fellowship 4/8/10
Andrew Fidler has been awarded a DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE-SCGF). Congratulations Andrew!
NSF Fellowship 4/6/10
Dugan Hayes has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Dugan!
Welcome 3/15/10
Moira Flanagan has started a rotation in our group. Welcome Moira!
Welcome 3/1/10
Graham Griffin has joined our group. Welcome Graham!
Welcome 1/20/10
Greg Engel has joined the Executive Committee of the Biophysics Subdivision of the American Chemical Society.
PECASE Award 1/13/10
Greg Engel was honored at the White House PECASE Award Ceremony.
Welcome 12/15/09
Graham Griffin Ph.D. will be joining our group in March. Welcome Graham!
New Support 7/15/09
Our group has received "seedling" support from DARPA for our work on Quantum Effects in Biological environments. Many thanks to DARPA for supporting our work.
PECASE Award 7/9/09
Greg Engel has been honored with a PECASE Award by President Obama sponsored by AFOSR. We thank AFOSR and the White House for this opportunity to do high risk research.
Service Award 5/10/09
Gitt Panitchayangkoon has received an award for outstanding service to the department.
Research Award 5/10/09
Kelly Fransted has received a departmental award for excellence in research.
Teaching Award 5/10/09
Justin Caram, Andrew Fidler and Dugan Hayes have received teaching awards from the department and division for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
New Support 5/8/09
Greg Engel has been named a Searle Scholar. Many thanks to the Searle family and Kinship Trust for supporting our research
NSF Fellowship 5/1/09
Justin Caram will be beginning his NSF GRFP fellowship in June.
ICAM 3/10/09
Elad Harel received an ICAM Postdoctoral Fellowship for collaboration with Lucio Frydman's group at the Wiezmann Institute in Israel.
Welcome 11/26/08
Justin Caram, Andrew Fidler and Dugan Hayes have joined the group.
AFOSR Young Investigator Award 10/17/08
Greg Engel has been named an AFOSR Young Investigator. Many thanks to the AFOSR for sponsoring our research.
New Postdoctoral Scholar 9/1/08
Elad Harel has joined the group as a postdoctoral scholar having completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley.
DURIP Award 3/15/08
AFOSR has awarded the Engel Lab a DURIP award. Many thanks to the AFOSR for sponsoring our research.
SciAm Top 50 1/15/08
Greg Engel has been named as one of Scientific American's Top 50 Research Leaders for 2007. See the full article from Scientific American here.
Welcome 12/1/07
Kelly Fransted and Gitt Panitchayangkoon have joined the group.
Dreyfus New Faculty Award 9/30/07
Greg Engel has been selected for the Dreyfus New Faculty Award. Many thanks to the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for sponsoring our research.