We have a bumper crop of new recruits this summer. A big welcome to Gloria Davidova, Vivian Ding, Zahra Kelsey, Anthony Lara and Ryan Pinard, who signed up to join us for undergraduate research this summer (and a welcome back to Bea Pence for the same). This week we’re also joined by our newest postdoctoral researcher, Juno Kim from Yonsei University, who recently received a competitive South Korean national fellowship. Looking forward to working with you all this summer!
Congrats to our latest graduates!
A big congratulations to Aaron, Trevor and Nicole on their graduation this weekend! It has been one heck of a ride these last few years, and you came through it very well. Special congratulations to Aaron for receiving the department’s George C Caldwell prize for all-round excellence during his undergraduate studies. And now it’s time for bigger and better things. We’ll look forward to seeing what you get up to in your graduate studies, with (so far) Nicole going to CU Boulder and Aaron to MIT!
Polariton transport
Our paper on ultrafast coherent polariton transport has just been published in Advanced Science, as part of the Rising Stars collection! Another great outcome for our fruitful collaboration with Akshay Rao at Cambridge. Not only are we able to distinguish bright polaritons from incoherent dark states, we also reveal for the first time how long-range polariton transport must involve population interchange with the reservoir. Even simple cavities turn out to be very complex systems, but therein lie the most exciting opportunities. Check it out here!
BPP dimer photophysics
We kicked off the new year with a publication in Advanced Science on symmetry-breaking emission and charge transfer in bibenzopentaphenes, the start of a new collaboration with Akimitsu Narita at OIST. And also Suman’s first foray into ultrafast spectroscopy – great work! Have a read here. The year also brings us some new faces in the lab. Welcome to undergraduate students Bea, Sean and Alex!
Welcome!
A big welcome to our new graduate students, Amy, Aleesha and Leo! The whole department had a bumper crop this year, and these three proved their excellent taste in scientific topic.
A cautionary tale
Big congratulations to Scott for publishing his first paper, out this week in J Chem Phys. We consider some of the many ways our favorite transient absorption techniques can go wrong with organic microcavities – check it out here! This also marks the group’s first paper from a Cornell grad student; hopefully the first of many! And a big, belated welcome to our two new undergraduate research students, Catherine and Sophia. both from C&CB. Great to have you on the team! Slowly we’ll fill the department with spectroscopists…
Congratulations, welcomes, & goodbyes
A very eventful few weeks to lead into the new semester. We’ve been joined by a new postdoc Suman from Columbia University, who was just awarded one of the inaugural NSF/ASEE eFellows fellowships, in addition to his Kavli at Cornell fellowship. Great work! This week is also the last with Alessandra, our visiting PhD student from Milan. She’ll be missed! And to cap it off, Woojae successfully interviewed for a tenure-track position in Chemistry at Yonsei University – excellent work, an amazing achievement! All in all, good cause for a celebration at Bickering Twins and our first group photo.
DOE Early Career Award
Our proposal What is the matter within polaritons: Molecular control of collective hybrid states has just been awarded funding from the DOE. Time to celebrate! And then get down to some seriously hard work…
Graduation 2021
Congratulations to Stavrini on graduating from Cornell AEP! She leaves behind an amazing trove of data on MOF spectroscopy and will be missed as she moves on to bigger and better (and warmer and sunnier) things!
Ultrafast vibronic spectroscopy
Woojae’s review article has just been published on using ultrafast vibrational techniques to study vibronic mechanisms of singlet fission. You can find it here. Congratulations for his first paper with the group!