Fundamental chemical physics. State-of-the-art experiments.

Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley

and Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Funded by DOE, NSF, AFOSR, and ARO.

Recent News

April 23, 2024: Madison receives the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship! Congrats!
April 10, 2024: Masa, Do, and Neal, alongside group alumni Zach, Blake, and Negar, publish on adenine, adenosine, and adenosine monophosphate in a liquid flat jet.
February 1, 2024: Marty publishes on work he did at Leipzig: vibrational wave-packet dynamics of the silver pentamer probed by femtosecond NeNePo spectroscopy.
February 1, 2024: Megan, Masa, and Jenny publish a paper on the time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of iodide–4-thiouracil cluster.
December 15, 2023: Steve graduates! Congratulations!
October 1, 2023: Korina joins the group as a 1st year graduate student! Welcome!
August 11, 2023: Zach and Yen-Cheng graduate! Congratulations!
August 2, 2023: Walt and Steve, along with group alumni Chin and Marvin, publish a paper on evaporation and scattering of neon, methane, and water from a dodecane flat liquid jet.

May 19, 2023: Eric and group alumnus Andrew publish a paper on femtosecond symmetry breaking and coherent relaxation of methane cations.
April 4, 2023: Jascha, Marty, and Tonia, along with group alumnus Mark, publish a paper on vibrationally excited vinoxide anions.
March 27, 2023: Nicki, Yen-Cheng, and James, along with group alumna Ashley, publish a paper on autoionization decay lifetimes of optically forbidden inner valence excited states in neon atoms.
February 28, 2023: James and Yen-Cheng, along with group alumni Ashley and Yuki, publish a paper on nonresonant coherent amplitude transfer.
February 15, 2023: Zach passes his qualifying exam! Congratulations!
December 30, 2022: Yen-Cheng and James, along with group alumna Ashley, publish a paper on state-selective probing of CO2 autoionizing inner valence Rydberg states.
December 16, 2022: Chin graduates! Congratulations!
December 12, 2022: Marty and Jascha, as well as group alumni Mark, Marissa, and Jongjin, publish in Nature Chemistry on the transition state of the F + NH3 reaction.
December 8, 2022: Zach completes a review paper on nonadiabatic dynamics studied by liquid-jet time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy.
October 21, 2022: Marty, Jascha, and Tonia, alongside group alumnus Mark, complete a paper on high resolution photoelectron spectroscopy of the acetyl anion.
October 12, 2022: Walt passes his qualifying exam! Congratulations!