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Currently at Intel Inc.
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2020
S.M., University of Chicago, 2017
B.A., Johns Hopkins Univ., 2015
GCIS E028
929 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
ryanwood@engelgroup.uchicago.edu
(773)-702-6066
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2020
S.M., University of Chicago, 2017
B.A., Johns Hopkins Univ., 2015
GCIS E028
929 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
ryanwood@engelgroup.uchicago.edu
(773)-702-6066
J.S. Higgins*, M.A. Allodi*, L.T. Lloyd, J.P. Otto, S.H. Sohail, R.G. Saer, R.E. Wood, S.C. Massey, P.-C. Ting, R.E. Blankenship and G.S. Engel "Redox conditions correlated with vibronic coupling modulate quantum beats in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes", PNAS 118 , e2112817118 2021
L.T. Lloyd, R.E. Wood, F. Mujid, S. Sohoni, K.L. Ji, P.-C. Ting, J.S. Higgins, J. Park and G.S. Engel "Sub-10 fs Intervalley Exciton Coupling in Monolayer MoS2 Revealed by Helicity-Resolved Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy", ACS Nano 15 , 10253–10263 2021
J.S. Higgins, L.T. Lloyd, S.H. Sohail, M.A. Allodi, J.P. Otto, R.G. Saer, R.E. Wood, S.C. Massey, P.-C. Ting, R.E. Blankenship and G.S. Engel "Photosynthesis tunes quantum mechanical mixing of electronic and vibrational states to steer exciton energy transfer", PNAS 118 , e2018240118 2021
L.T. Lloyd, R.E. Wood, M.A. Allodi, S. Sohoni, J.S. Higgins, J.P. Otto and G.S Engel "Leveraging scatter in two-dimensional spectroscopy: passive phase drift correction enables a global phasing protocol", Optics Express 28 , 32869-328 2020
S.H. Sohail, J.P. Otto, P.D. Cunningham, Y.C. Kim, R.E. Wood, M.A. Allodi, J.S. Higgins, J.S. Melinger and G.S. Engel "DNA scaffold supports long-lived vibronic coherence in an indodicarbocyanine (Cy5) dimer", Chemical Science 11 , 8546-8557 2020
R.J. Mazuski*, S.A. Díaz*, R.E. Wood, L.T. Lloyd, W.P. Klein, D. Mathur, J.S. Melinger, G.S. Engel and Igor L. Medintz "Ultrafast Excitation Transfer in Cy5 DNA Photonic Wires Displays Dye Conjugation and Excitation Energy Dependency", The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11 , 4163-4172 2020
R.E Wood*, L.T. Lloyd*, F. Mujid, L. Wang, M.A. Allodi, H. Gao, R.J. Mazuski, P.-C. Ting, S. Xie, J. Park and G.S. Engel "Evidence for the Dominance of Carrier-Induced Band Gap Renormalization over Biexciton Formation in Cryogenic Ultrafast Experiments on MoS2 Monolayers", J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11 , 2658-2666 2020
R.E Wood, L.T. Lloyd, F. Mujid, L. Wang, M.A. Allodi, H. Gao, R.J. Mazuski, P.-C. Ting, S. Xie, J. Park and G.S. Engel "Biexcitons do not form in MoS2 monolayers from optical pumping at 6 K", Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXIV 11278 , 1127805 2020
M.A. Allodi, J.P. Otto, S.H. Sohail, R.G. Saer, R.E. Wood, B.S. Rolczynski, S.C. Massey, P.-C. Ting, R.E. Blankenship and G.S. Engel "Redox Conditions Affect Ultrafast Exciton Transport in Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes", J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9 , 89-95 2018
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
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 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 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".
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.
Dr. Ryan Wood is off to start his new position at Intel. Congratulations, Ryan! We wish you well.
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.
Congratulations to Ryan Wood on receiving his very real PhD at our virtual convocation.
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.
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Wood on the successfully defending his PhD thesis. Well done, Ryan!
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".
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 to Ryan Wood, Sara Sohail, and Sara Massey on presenting their work at the 256th ACS National Meeting.
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.
C&E News has covered our recent development of Optical Resonance Imaging by Marco Allodi, John Otto, Richard Mazuski, and Ryan Wood.

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 to Richard Mazuski, Sara Sohail, Ryan Wood and Sarah Zinn on passing their qualifying examination and being admitted to candidacy.
Congratulations Ryan Wood on receiving an NDSEG fellowship from the Department of Defense!
Welcome to Sara Hess, Richard Mazuski, and Ryan Wood, who have joined the group as Graduate Students.
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.