News
3/28/2026: Huge congratulations to our own Jacob on being selected for the DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program! He will be working at Argonne National Laboratory this summer. Congrats and we can’t wait to see all the cool things Jacob will achieve at Argonne!
3/4/2026: Congratulations to Seongje on being selected as a fellow at the Institute of Global Sustainability! This fellowship will support his research on carotenoids this summer.
2/9/2026: The group welcomes a new visiting scholar, Manu Coessens, from the HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ghent, Belgium. Welcome!
2/3/2026: Minjung wins the Flygare Award from the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy! She will deliver an award lecture at the ISMS conference in June.
12/15/2025: Our superstar undergraduate, Jacob, shares insights into some of the work he’s been doing in the group in an interview with the MSE division! Read here: Undergraduate Researcher Help Decode Solar Energy Capture
12/1/2025: We are grateful for new support from the U.S. Department of Energy through Minjung’s Early Career Research Award, which will advance our research on polaritonic systems incorporating photosynthetic systems for the next 5 years! Chemistry News; Photonics Center News
10/3/2025: The new semester brings two new undergraduate researchers to the group, Jacob Lydon and Theo Kamperides. Welcome! We’re also excited to share that Jacob received a UROP Award. Congrats and well-deserved, Jacob!
6/27/2025: We are grateful for new support from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, which will help advance our research on exciton-polaritons incorporating light-harvesting molecular materials!