2020-2022
Joined Ziegler Lab - ultrafast 2DIR research with Matt Rotondaro
ResearchCompleted
Freshman year I joined Larry Ziegler's ultrafast spectroscopy lab under PhD student Matt Rotondaro. Aligned femtosecond lasers, prepared supercritical Xe and SF6 fluids, and wrote auto-correlation analysis code. Matt's thesis was on energy transfer in supercritical fluids - N2O rotational/vibrational relaxation, isolated binary collision breakdown, and near-critical density fluctuations. Working in the lab is what made me realize I liked the math and the code more than the optics bench.
● What I shipped
- Aligned and maintained a femtosecond ultrafast laser system for 2D infrared spectroscopy.
- Prepared supercritical Xe and SF6 fluid samples for near-critical density studies.
- Wrote auto-correlation analysis code for rotational and vibrational energy relaxation traces.
- Co-authored the J. Chem. Phys. + ACS papers on N2O dynamics in supercritical solvents.
● Stack
Python
NumPyUltrafast Optics2DIR SpectroscopySupercritical Fluids