Dugan Hayes Currently a professor at the Univ. of Rhode Island
Papers from the Engel Group
L. Wang, N.E. Williams, E.W. Malachosky, J.P. Otto, D. Hayes, R.E. Wood, P. Guyot-Sionnest and G.S. Engel "Scalable Ligand-Mediated Transport Synthesis of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Nanocrystals with Resolved Electronic Structure and Ultrafast Dynamics", ACS Nano 11 , 2689–2696 2017
D. Hayes, G.B. Griffin and G.S. Engel "Response to Comment on "Engineering coherence among excited states in synthetic heterodimer systems"", Science 344 , 1099 2014
D. Hayes, G.B. Griffin and G.S. Engel "Engineering Coherence Among Excited States in Synthetic Heterodimer Systems", Science 340 , 1431 2013
A.F. Fidler, J.R. Caram, D. Hayes and G.S. Engel "Toward a Coherent Picture of Excitonic Coherence in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex", Journal of Physics B 45 , 154013 2012
D. Hayes and G.S. Engel "Peak shape analysis of diagonal and off-diagonal features in the 2D electronic spectra of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 370 , 3692-3708 2012
D. Hayes, J. Wen, G. Panitchayangkoon, R.E. Blankenship and G.S. Engel "Robustness of electronic coherence in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex to vibronic and structural modifications.", Faraday Discussions 150 , 459-469 2011
D. Hayes and G.S. Engel "Extracting the excitonic Hamiltonian of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex using three-dimensional electronic spectroscopy.", Biophysical Journal 100 , 2043-2052 2011
D. Hayes, G. Panitchayangkoon, K.A. Fransted, J.R. Caram, J. Wen, K.F. Freed and G.S. Engel "Dynamics of Electronic Dephasing in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex", New J. Phys. 12 , 065042 2010
G. Panitchayangkoon, D. Hayes, K.A. Fransted, J.R. Caram, E. Harel, J. Wen, R.E. Blankenship and G.S. Engel "Long-Lived Quantum Coherence in Photosynthetic Complexes at Physiological Temperature", PNAS 107 , 12766-12770 2010
News from the Engel Group
New Assistant Professor
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.
Paper Accepted
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.
Thesis Award
Congratulations to Dugan Hayes for winning the Yang-Caho-Lan-Xian Best Thesis Award from the Department of Chemistry.
Paper Published
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 Accepted
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.
Paper Accepted
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.
Paper Accepted
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.
Poster Award
Congratulations to Dugan Hayes and Sara Wichner for winning "Best Poster" awards at the 2010 Autumn ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA.


Paper Accepted
Dugan Hayes's paper on "Dynamics of electronic dephasing in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex" has been accepted to the New Journal of Physics.
NSF Fellowship
Dugan Hayes has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Dugan!
Teaching Award
Justin Caram, Andrew Fidler and Dugan Hayes have received teaching awards from the department and division for excellence in undergraduate teaching.








