个人简介

Born: West Chester, PA, 1977 Princeton University, A.B., 1999 Harvard University, A.M., 2001 Harvard University, Ph.D., 2004 Harvard University, Postdoctoral Scholar, 2004-2005 University of California, Berkeley, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2007 University of Chicago, Professor, 2007- Accolades 2014 DoD NSSEFF Award 2013 FACSS Innovation Award 2013 Defense Science Study Group Member for 2014-2015 2012 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Undergraduate Teaching 2012 Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship 2012 Coblentz Award 2010 DTRA Young Investigator Award 2010 DARPA Young Faculty Award 2009 PECASE Recipient 2009 Searle Scholar 2008 AFOSR Young Investigator Program 2007 Scientific American Top 50 Leaders in Research 2007 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award 2005-2007 Miller Research Fellow 2003-2004 EPA STAR Fellow 1999-2002 NSF Graduate Research Fellow

研究领域

Physical Chemistry/Biophysics

Research in the Engel Group focuses on excited state reactivity including excitonic transport, non-radiative relaxation to photochemical products, and new methods to image excited state dynamics. Excited states in the condensed phase have an extremely high chemical potential thereby making them highly reactive and difficult to control. Our control strategy involves exploiting coherent response of the environment to the excitation event. In particular, we develop methodologies to manipulate two fundamental components of excited state dynamics: exciton migration and non-radiative relaxation. Our approach is inspired by biological systems optimized by evolution to exploit manifestly quantum mechanical phenomena to drive coherent energy transfer, to steer trajectories through conical intersections and to protect long-lived quantum coherence. Currently, we are focusing on four key scientific efforts: (1) new techniques to image excited state dynamics, (2) understanding mechanisms of quantum transport in photosynthesis, (3) dynamics of conical intersections in the condensed phase, and (4) engineering quantum dynamics in new classes of synthetic materials.

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Y. Zheng, S. Oh, F.H. Alharbi, G.S. Engel, and S. Kais "Delocalized quantum states enhance photocell efficiency" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 5743-5750 2015. M. Mohseni, Y. Omar, G.S. Engel, and M.B. Plenio, "Quantum Effects in Biology" Cambridge University Press, 2014. H. Zheng, J.R. Caram, P.D. Dahlberg, B.S. Rolczynski, S. Viswanathan, D.S. Dolzhnikov, A. Khadivi, D.V. Talapin, and G.S. Engel, "Dispersion-Free Continuum Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectrometer" Applied Optics 53, 1909–1917 2014. J.R. Caram, H. Zheng, P.D. Dahlberg, B.S. Rolczynski, G.B. Griffin, D.S. Dolzhnikov, D.V. Talapin and G.S. Engel, "Exploring size and state dynamics in CdSe quantum dots using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy" J. Chem. Phys. 140, 084701 2014. K.M. Pelzer, T. Can, S.K. Gray, D.K Morr, and G.S.Engel, "Coherent Transport and Energy Flow Patterns in Photosynthesis under Incoherent Excitation" J. Phys. Chem. B 118, 2693−2702 2014. A.F. Fidler, V.P. Singh, P.D. Long, P.D. Dahlberg, and G.S. Engel, "Dynamic localization of electronic excitation in photosynthetic complexes revealed with chiral two-dimensional spectroscopy" Nat. Comm. 5, 3286 2014. G.B. Griffin, P.M. Lundin, B.S. Rolczynski, A. Linkin, R.D. McGillicuddy, Z.Bao, and G.S. Engel, "Ultrafast energy transfer from rigid, branched side-chains into a conjugated, alternating copolymer" J. Chem. Phys. 140, 034903 2014. J.R. Caram, H. Zheng, P.D. Dahlberg, B.S. Rolczynski, G.B. Griffin, A.F. Fidler, D.S. Dolzhnikov, D.V. Talapin, and G.S. Engel, "Persistent Interexcitonic Quantum Coherence in CdSe Quantum Dots" J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5, 196-204 2014. P.D. Dahlberg, A.F. Fidler, J.R. Caram, P.D. Long, and G.S. Engel, "Correction to 'Energy Transfer Observed In Live Cells Using Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy'" J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 3977 2013. P.D. Dahlberg, A.F. Fidler, J.R. Caram, P.D. Long, and G.S. Engel, "Energy Transfer Observed In Live Cells Using Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy" J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 3636-3640 2013. A.F. Fidler, V.P. Singh, P.D. Long, P.D. Dahlberg, and G.S. Engel, "Probing Energy Transfer Events in the Light Harvesting Complex 2 (LH2) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides with Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy" J. Chem. Phys. 139, 155101 2013. K.M. Pelzer, A.F. Fidler, G.B. Griffin, S.K. Gray, and G.S. Engel, "The dependence of exciton transport efficiency on spatial patterns of correlation within the spectral bath" New J. Phys. 15, 095019 2013. V.P. Singh, A.F. Fidler, B.S. Rolczynski, and G.S. Engel, "Independent phasing of rephasing and non-rephasing 2D electronic spectra" J. Chem. Phys. 139, 084201 2013. 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, V.P. Singh, P.D. Long, P.D. Dahlberg, and G.S. Engel, "Time Scales of Coherent Dynamics in the Light-Harvesting Complex 2 (LH2) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides" J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 1404−1409 2013. A.F. Fidler and G.S. Engel, "Nonlinear Spectroscopic Theory of Displaced Harmonic Oscillators with Differing Curvatures: A Correlation Function Approach" J. Phys. Chem. A 117, 9444 2013. G.B. Griffin, S. Itthuria, D.S. Dolzhnikov, A. Linkin, D.V. Talapin, and G.S. Engel, "Two Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of CdSe Nanoparticles at Very Low Pulse Power" J. Chem. Phys. 138, 014705 2013. K.A. Fransted, J.R. Caram, D. Hayes and G.S. Engel, "Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of Bacteriochlorophyll a in Solution: Elucidating the Coherence Dynamics of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex Using its Chromophore as a Control" J. Chem. Phys. 137, 125101 2012. E. Harel, S.M. Rupich, R.D. Schaller, D.V. Talapin, and G.S. Engel, "Measurement of Electronic Splitting in PbS Quantum Dots by Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Spectroscopy" Phys Rev B, 86 075412 2012.