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Prof. Robert Baker Named Deputy Director of the Institute for Optical Science

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Congratulations to Prof. Robert Baker on his appointment as Deputy Director of the Institute of Optical Science.

Robert has been a member of iOS since its inception in 2018 and is co-Director of the NSF NeXUS facility. Robert’s research interest utilizes ultrafast optical-XUV spectroscopy to study surface electron dynamics and interfacial charge transfer in order to control catalytic energy conversion processes.>

Robert joined the faculty at OSU in 2014. He received his B.S. from Brigham Young University. In 2012, he completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in the group of Prof. Gabor Somorjai. He remained at Berkeley as a post-doctoral research associate in the group of Prof. Stephen Leone. At OSU, he has been awarded funding from the NSF, DOE and AFOSR. His distinctions include a DOE Early Career award an AFOSR Young Investigator award and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar award.

Visit the iOS website for webinar schedules and news items.

Stiner-Jones Completes ELATES Program

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Congratulations to La’Tonia Stiner-Jones for completing the “Executive Leadership in Academic Technology Engineering and Sciences” program. The program is designed to prepare women faculty for executive leadership roles. The 11-month program includes a number of assignments, readings, and group projects. All participants were required to complete an Institutional Action Project of benefit to their college, department, and/or the university.

Baker Wins 2021 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award

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Spectroscopy has named Robert Baker, associate professor at The Ohio State University, the winner of the 2021 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award. Awarded annually since 2017, it recognizes the achievements and aspirations of a talented young atomic spectroscopist, selected by an independent scientific committee.

“Robert Baker is a brilliant young scientist and embodies the values and qualities we look for when selecting the Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award winner,” said Mike Hennessy Jr., president and CEO of MJH Life Sciences™, parent company of Spectroscopy®. “His extensive background in the fields of physical chemistry, surface science, catalysis and spectroscopy make him truly deserving of this noteworthy award.”

The award will be presented to Baker on Feb. 24 at the Spectroscopy® Virtual Symposium, ‘Atomic Spectroscopy in Practice,’ where he will give a plenary lecture.

Read the full press release here.

Exploratory Materials Research Grant Showcase

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Presented by the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), an NSF MRSEC, the Center for Exploration of Novel COMplex Materials (ENCOMM), and Institute for Materials Research (IMR):

Exploratory Materials Research Grant Showcase
Five Exploratory Materials Research Grants (EMRGs) were awarded in March of 2021 after a pause to the 2020 OSU Materials Research Seed Grants Program (MRSGP), due to the pandemic. We invite you to join this special showcase of current EMRGs, to:

  • Learn how these projects/groups are enabling nascent and innovative materials research to emerge to the point of being competitive for external funding
  • See examples of what the MRSGP looks for in EMRG project proposals

SERIES SCHEDULE

  • Wednesday, September 29 (in-person) | Sasha Landsman, Dept. of Physics
    Title: “Driving electrons with high intensity ultrashort laser pulses”
  • Wednesday, October 6 (in-person) | Jinghua Li, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
    Title: “Nanomaterials and Nanoelectronics Enabled Biosensing for Advanced Healthcare”
  • Wednesday, October 13 (in-person) | Alok Sutradhar, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
     Title: “Multiphysics Topology Optimization of Electromagnetic Structures”
  • Wednesday, October 20 (in-person) | Shiyu Zhang, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Title: “Sustainable Organic Electrode Materials”
  • Wednesday, October 27 (virtual) | Xiaoxue Wang, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Title: “A Synergistic Approach to Soft Materials, Advanced Electronics and AI”

Event Contact: encomm@osu.edu
Event Webpage: https://encomm.osu.edu/seminar-archive

Seminar series “Spin Dynamics in Molecules and Materials”

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Presented by the Institute of Optical Science (Zoom link is here)

  • “Harnessing Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond for Next-Generation Quantum Science and Technology” by Prof. Chunhui Du (UC San Diego)
    8/27/2021 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm
  • “Ultrafast Chirality: Twisting Light to Twist Electrons” by Prof. Olga Smirnova (MBI Berlin)
    9/3/2021 from 10:00am to 11:00am
  • “Optical and Electrical Detection of Spin Orbit Fields” by Prof. Christian Back (Technical University of Munich)
    9/17/2021 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm