Specialties

Photochemistry

Hai-Lung Dai
Physical/Analytical
Nonlinear optical and spectroscopic/microscopic studies of the structure and dynamics of surfaces and interfaces, colloidal particles, aerosols, nanoparticles, micelles, liposomes and biological cells; structure and dynamics of new energy materials including RTIL, DSSS, and organic crystals and thin films; energy transfer and reactions of highly excited molecule
Daniel K. Kim
Organic/Biological
Developing synthetic methodologies to tackle challenges in organic synthesis and biology: biocatalysis, transition metal catalysis, synthesis, and chemical biology
Spiridoula Matsika
Theory/Computation
Photophysics and photochemistry of biologically relevant systems; conical intersections and non adiabatic effects; methods for excited states and conical intersections; understanding laser control of molecular dynamics
Scott McN. Sieburth
Organic, Medicinal
​New synthetic methods for synthesis including photochemical and organometallic processes; organosilanols as pharmaceuticals; higher-order photocycloaddition
Robert Stanley
Physical/Analytical, Biological
Light-driven DNA repair by DNA photolyase: ultrafast mechanism, enzymology, mutagenesis; excited state electronic properties of flavins and flavoproteins: Stark spectroscopy; photophysical properties of fluorescent nucleic base analogs: probes of energy flow in DNA
Yugang Sun
Physical/Analytical
Nanomaterials synthesis, nanofabrication, in-situ and operando characterization, plasmonics, nanophotonics, photocatalysis, electrochemical catalysis, electrochemical energy storage, sensing