Daniel Shahar

Featured News: PhD Student Daniel Shahar is Bending Light and Breaking Boundaries in the Ramachandran Lab Reading about the latest cutting-edge scientific discoveries, it’s easy to forget about some of the people behind the experiments, crunched numbers, and written reports: the graduate students.  

Minjung Son

Research in the Son group aims to understand the photophysical mechanisms of how energy and charge flow in molecular, materials, and biological systems, which largely govern their function. To explore these mechanisms and dynamics, we utilize ultrafast optical spectroscopy and microscopy. In addition, we develop new classes of spatially controlled nanomaterials and hybrid photonic materials, […]

Laser-Focused: How Minjung Son’s Research Brings Together Photonics and Chemistry for a Brighter Future

in Faculty News, Profiles

by Jack Osmond, Photos by Chris McIntosh Assistant Professor of Chemistry Minjung Son loves shooting lasers at things for a living––just check her Twitter bio for proof. She stumbled upon her passion for lasers, or ultrafast spectroscopy, as an undergraduate. After taking classes in physical chemistry and quantum mechanics, she joined a research group where […]

Photonics Pioneer Siddharth Ramachandran Among Three BU Faculty Recognized by World’s Largest Scientific Society

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A pioneer of spiral-shaped light beams that might improve internet capacity, medical imaging, and more, Distinguished Professor of Engineering Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) has been selected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The world’s largest general scientific society, AAAS annually bestows this honor on scientists, engineers, and innovators in recognition of scientifically and socially […]

Alexander Sergienko

Professor Sergienko’s research interests include ultrafast quantum optics, quantum metrology, and quantum biophotonics, among other topics.