News
- September 1, 2023: The Anna group has moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh!
- August 10, 2023: Phoebe Askelson successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations Dr. Askelson!
-June 11-16, 2023: Ranadeb Ball presented a poster at TRVS 2023. Way to go Ranadeb!
- March 28, 2023: Phoebe Askelson, Ranadeb Ball and James Shipp presented posters in ACS 2023, Spring symposium. In addition, Phoebe presented her work in SCIMIX.
- July 25, 2022: Dabin Kim successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations Dr. Kim!
- July 1, 2022: Jessica was promoted to Associate Professor of Chemistry with tenure!
- June 7, 2022: Jiawei Lu successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations Dr. Lu!
- March 29, 2022: Wei Weng successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations Dr. Weng!
- February 1, 2022: Dr. James Shipp has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome James!
- January 1, 2022: First year graduate students Kelly Kopera and Becky Hopkins have joined the group. Welcome Kelly and Becky!
- October 23, 2021: Dabin Kim won the Best Poster by a Graduate Student Award at the 47th Midwest Southeast Photosynthesis Conference for her poster on using 2DES to probe energy transfer pathways in Chl f containing PSI Complexes. Congratulations Dabin!!
- October 19, 2021: Our paper using mid-IR pump probe and 2DIR to characterize the ultrafast dynamics of copper complexes has been accepted by J. Phys. Chem. B. Congratulations to Wei Weng on her first paper!
- June 18, 2021: Phoebe Askelson won the Phasetech TRVS poster prize for the presentation of her poster at TRVS 2021! Congratulations Phoebe!
- May 2021: Chenshuai Li and Ranadeb Ball advanced to candidacy. Congratulations Ranadeb and Chenshuai!
- April 2, 2021: Jessica's NSF CAREER proposal "CAREER: Elucidating the Interplay Between Exciton Dynamics and Symmetry-Breaking Charge Transfer Through Multidimensional Visible and Mid-Infrared Spectroscopies" was awarded. More details can be found here. Congratulations Jessica!
- September 16, 2020: Stephen Meloni successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Stephen Meloni!
- September 9, 2020: Our paper on extracting the dynamic Stokes shift from 2DES with prominent vibrational coherences is published in J. Phys. Chem. B! Congratulations Jiawei on your first paper!
- April 22, 2020: Yumin Lee successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Yumin Lee!
- April 2, 2020: Our lab space flooded. We are busy getting the lab back up and running.
- Dec. 20, 2019: First year graduate students Chenshuai Li and Ranadeb Ball have joined the group. Welcome Chenshuai and Ranadeb!
- August 5, 2019: Dr. Jiawang Zhou has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Jiawang!
- July 17, 2019: Phoebe Askelson has received the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology (VIEST) Fellowship. Congratulations Phoebe!
- May 5, 2019: Yumin Lee was awarded a travel grant to the 37th Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference for her outstanding presentations at this year’s event. Congratulations Yumin!
- May 5, 2019: Carolyn White won a poster award for her excellent presentation at the 36th Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference. Congratulations Carolyn!
- April 8-10, 2019: Yumin Lee was awarded a Poster Prize at the Ultrafast Photoinduced Energy and Charge Transfer Faraday Discussion. Congratulations Yumin!
- April 5, 2019: Phoebe Askelson has received the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students in the School of Arts and Sciences. Good work Phoebe!
- March 19, 2019: Carolyn White passed her qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy today. Congratulations Carolyn!
- March 13, 2019: Phoebe Askelson passed her qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy today. Congratulations Phoebe!
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- February 21, 2019: Jessica was named as a 2019 Sloan Research Fellow. These fellowships honor the scientific achievements and potential of 126 early-career scholars. Congratulations Jessica!
- February 6, 2019: Our research, specifically the work of former post-doc Rahul Gera and graduate student Stephen Meloni on metal carbonyl complexes encapsulated in nanocages, has been highlighted in Penn Today.
- January 10, 2019: Our paper studying the dynamics of guest complexes in Pd6L4 nanocages using ultrafast mid-IR polarization dependent pump-probe spectroscopy has just been accepted by J. Phys. Chem. Lett.!
- Open house on October 19th, 2018 at 6pm! Join us for pumpkin carving and refreshments, and to learn more about our research!
- August 20, 2018: Yumin has received the chemistry department's Excellence in Graduate Research Award in Physical Chemistry. Congratualations Yumin!
- August 23rd, 2018: Our paper utilizing 2D-DAS extracted from the global analysis of 2D electronic spectra to understand the ultrafast energy transfer of different PSI complexes has been just accepted by J. Am. Chem. Society!
- August 9-12, 2018: Yumin Lee was selected for the Exceptional Travel Award to the ISPR Conference on Microbial Photosynthesis in Vancouver, Canada and gave an oral presentation on her research. Great work Yumin!
- July 20, 2018: Jiawei Lu has received the new Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology (VIEST) Fellowship. Congratulations Jiawei!
- July 8, 2018: Carolyn White has been appointed a trainee of the NIH Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics Training Program. Congratulations Carolyn!
- June 29, 2018: Yumin Lee has received the Best Poster Award at the 9th International Conference on Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS), held in Seoul, Korea. Congratulations Yumin!
- May 14, 2018: Alex Hoffnagle has graduated from Penn and will be attending graduate school at UCSD this coming fall! Alex was an undergraduate researcher in the Anna group since 2015. Congratulations Alex!
-April 27, 2019: Dabin Kim has passed her qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy today. Congratulations Dabin!
- April 25, 2018: Alex Hoffnagle has received the ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry. Congratulations Alex!
- April 25, 2018: Yumin Lee has received the Miller Fellowship! The Miller fellowship is award to students for performing outstanding research in physical chemistry. Congratulations Yumin!
- April 25, 2018: Phoebe Askelson has received the 2018 Chemistry Department Award for Teaching. Congratulations Phoebe!
- April 25, 2018: Jiawei Lu has received a 2018 Chemistry Department Commendation for Teaching. Congratulations Jiawei!
- March 23, 2018: Jiawei Lu passed his qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy today. Congratulations Jiawei!
- March 20, 2018: Wei Weng passed her qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy today. Congratulations Wei!
- January 1, 2018: Incoming graduate students Phoebe Askelson and Carolyn White have joined the group. Welcome Phoebe and Carolyn!
- December 20, 2017: Stephen Meloni received the 2017-2018 Mitchell Fellowship.
- September 25, 2017: Our paper characterizing the ultrafast solvation dynamics and vibrational coherences of halogenated BODIPY dyes was just accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.!
- April 5, 2017: Yumin Lee received the "American Chemical Society Division of Physical Chemistry, Outstanding Student Poster Award” at the 253rd National ACS Meeting San Francisco for presenting her work on BODIPY laser dyes. Congratulations Yumin!
- January 1, 2017: Incoming graduate students Dabin Kim, Jiawei Lu, and Wei Weng have joined the group. Welcome Dabin, Jiawei and Wei!
- December 10, 2016: Dr. Rahul Gera has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Rahul!
- May 9, 2016: Our 2DIR spectrometer is up and running! Below are some of our first 2DIR spectra of dimanganese decacarbonyl.
- May 4, 2016: We have our first external funding! Jessica has received the 2016 DOE Early Career Award. More details can be found here.
- April 4, 2016: Stephen has passed his qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy today. Congratulations Stephen!
- March 29, 2016: Yumin has passed her qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy today. Congratulations Yumin!
- January 13, 2016: Our 2D electronic spectrometer is up and running!
- November 12, 2015: Our mid-IR pulse shaper (QuickShape PhaseTech) has been installed!
- October 9, 2015: Our visible pulse shaper (Dazzler FASTLITE) has been installed.
- August 15, 2015: Dr. Saptaparna Das joins the Anna group. Welcome Saptaparna!
- Feb. 9, 2015: Our ultrafast laser system (Coherent Libra-HE, 100 fs, 1kHz) has been installed including a commercial OPA and DFG. We have mid-IR and visible light!
- Jan. 20, 2015: Our optical tables have been installed.
- Stephen Meloni joins the group. Welcome Stephen!
- Yumin Lee joins the group. Welcome Yumin!
- Kristen McKibben joins the group as a rotation student. Welcome Kristen!
- Jessica receives the Elliman Faculty Fellowship.
- July 1, 2014 - Jessica joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Pennsylvania