9/4/2024 – Conference season is not yet over! Marissa presents on the group’s planned work in aerosol science at the Packard Fellows meeting in Monterey, CA. And Dominik heads to Bologna, Italy, for the 2024 Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy.
8/16/2024 – We have won the 2023 Emerging Investigator Best Paper award from the Journal of Chemical Physics for Ashley, Liying, and Alex’s paper on ultrafast bimolecular reaction dynamics under vibrational strong coupling! Big congratulations to the team. You can check out the paper here and the JCP news story here.
8/14/2024 – Jane’s perspective on gas-phase polaritons is now officially out in JCP – and it made the cover!
8/13/2024 – Marissa presents on the group’s work at the Nordita meeting on Coherent Control with Modified Vacuum FieldsCoherent Control with Modified Vacuum Fields, in Stockholm, Sweden.
8/1/2024 – We bid goodbye to undergraduate Kierra Forthman this week, who joined us for the summer through the Leadership Alliance program and did some beautiful work with the condensed phase polariton subgroup. Great work, Kierra, and best of luck finishing up back home in Utah!
7/16/2024 – Marissa presents on the group’s work at the 2024 Telluride Workshop on Spectroscopy and Dynamics on Multiple Surfaces in Telluride, CO. Some beautiful scenery was enjoyed with colleagues old and new!
7/8/2024 – Summer conference season is in full swing! Liying and Negar head off to the GRC on Molecular Interactions and Dynamics in Easton, MA, while Cole heads to the 2024 GeoMIP meeting in Ithaca, NY.
7/3/2024 – Marissa presents on the group’s work at the 2024 MOLEC meeting in Aarhus, Denmark.
7/1/2024 – Incoming first year grad students Arden Floyd and Valentino Cesiliano join us for the summer. Welcome to the team!
6/3/2024 – The Weichman Lab welcomes summer undergraduate Kierra Forthman!
5/31/2024 – Marissa presents on the group’s work at the Molecular Physics department of the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany.
5/27/2024 – The Weichman Lab takes Europe! Marissa and Jane attend the “Polaritonics for next generation materials” symposium at the E-MRS meeting in Strasbourg, France. Congratulations to Jane for winning an E-MRS Young Researcher Award!
5/22/2024 – Our work on gas-phase polariton chemistry on molecular systems we are considering next is now live on the arXiv. Congratulations to Jane!
05/13/2024 – The Weichman Lab welcomes Dr. Trevor Wright as a postdoctoral research associate. Trevor is joining us from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he completed his PhD in physics, advised by Prof. Eric Cornell.
4/25/2024 – Alex passes his generals exam! Congratulations to Alex for becoming a PhD candidate!
4/22/2024 – Marissa presents on our work at the a chemistry department seminar at Yale University. Thanks to Prof. Mark Johnson and the J-Lab for a great visit!
4/17/2024 – Marissa presents on our work at the Physics Colloquium at Washington University in St. Louis. Thanks to Prof. Kater Murch for hosting!
4/12/2024 – The Weichman Lab goes to Pho Today in celebration of Liying’s successful third year seminar! Congrats to Liying for completing another milestone!
3/20/2024 – Negar and Dominik’s work in comb spectroscopy of astrochemical species is featured in a department story. Check it out here.
3/18/2024 – Marissa, Liying, Alex, and Jane go to ACS in New Orleans!
2/19/2024 – Marissa presents on our work in an AMO physics seminar at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE. Thanks to fellow polariton enthusiast Prof. Tao Li for hosting!
2/1/2024 – Negar passes her generals exam! Congratulations to Negar for becoming a PhD candidate!
1/25/2024 – Liying’s first first-author paper is out in Nanophotonics! Congratulations Liying, Ashley, and Alex!
1/22/2024 – Jane passes her generals exam! Congratulations to Jane for becoming a PhD candidate!
1/4/2024 – Marissa presents on our work at the Royal Society of Chemistry Spectroscopy & Dynamics Group Meeting in Leicester, UK… and finds some familiar faces in London!
12/6/2023 – Marissa presents on our work in a chemistry department seminar at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. Thanks to Prof. Leah Dodson for hosting!
10/31/2023 – Our work on vibrational polariton chemistry in the CN + cyclohexane reaction is now live on the arXiv. Congratulations to Liying, Ashley, and Alex!
10/23/2023 – Adam and Jane’s second paper on gas-phase polaritons is now out in JCP!
10/23/2023 – Ashley, Liying, and Alex’s paper is out in JCP – and it made the cover! Congratulations to all!
10/16/2023 – We have been awarded a 2023 Packard Foundation award to support the Weichman Lab’s work! Check out the department news story here.
10/9/2023 – Marissa presents on the group’s work at the SciX Conference in Reno, NV.
9/25/2023 – Marissa and Ashley present on the group’s work at the Wintergreen Meeting of Physical Chemists in Wintergreen, VA. We got to do a bit of hiking in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains!
8/15/2023 – Marissa presents on the group’s work at the Fall ACS meeting in San Francisco, CA.
8/14/2023 – Marissa was interviewed for this perspective article on polariton chemistry, now out in Chemistry World.
7/24/2023 – The gas-phase project’s manuscript on the versatility of the gas-phase molecular polariton apparatus is now on arXiv! Congratulations Adam, and Jane!
7/23/2023 – Marissa presents on the group’s work at the International Conference on Chemical Bonding in Kauai, HI (and then does a bit of backpacking on the Napali Coast)!
7/21/2023 – Chris Tong’s journey with the group concludes with a successful QURIP poster session. Best wishes for your future, Chris!
7/10/2023 – The lab’s first manuscript on solution-phase polariton chemistry is now on arXiv! Congratulations Ashley, Liying, and Alex!
6/20/2023 – Ashley and Jane go to the SCOM 2023 conference in San Diego. Ashley gives a talk on condensed-phase polaritons while Jane presents on gas-phase polaritons and wins runner-up in the poster awards!
6/5/2023 – The Weichman lab welcomes three summer undergrads, Tanay Nambiar, Daniel Tajes, and Chris Tong!
6/5/2023 – Marissa presents on the group’s work at a Telluride meeting on “Polariton Chemistry and Molecular Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics.”
5/26/2023 – Liying wins the Ada and Meyer Packer Memorial Fellowship for showing “significant promise in the field of physical chemistry and spectroscopy.” Congratulations, Liying!!
5/12/2023 – The very first undergraduate student in the Weichman Lab graduates and heads off to UPenn for graduate school! Congratulations, Cameron!
5/2/2023 – The Weichman Lab has our very first PhD candidate! Congratulations to Liying for passing his generals exam!
4/14/2023 – Marissa’s interview from the Molecular Quantum Technologies workshop has gone live just in time for World Quantum Day. Check it out:
4/10/2023 – Jane has won an NDSEG graduate fellowship from the Department of Defense to support her PhD work in gas-phase polaritons. Congratulations Jane!!!
3/29/2023 – Adam gave a beautiful talk on his work in gas-phase molecular polaritons at the ACS Spring 2023 meeting in Indianapolis, IN.
03/14/2023 – The Weichman Lab welcomes Dr. Dominik Charczun as a postdoctoral research associate. Dominik is joining us from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where he completed his PhD in physics, advised by Prof. Piotr Masłowski.
03/03/2023 – The lab’s first experimental publication on polaritons, Rovibrational Polaritons in Gas-Phase Methane, is now out in JACS! Check out the departmental news story!
02/13/2023 – The Weichman Lab welcomes Dr. Cole Sagan as a postdoctoral research associate. Cole is joining us from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he completed his PhD in chemistry, advised by Prof. Etienne Garand.
01/18/2023 – We have been awarded a 2023 NSF CAREER award to support Adam and Jane’s work on gas-phase molecular polaritons. A huge milestone for the lab! Check out the award abstract here and the department news story here.
01/17/2023 – The Weichman lab goes out for dinner to celebrate the New Year and our collective successes last year! See more on our Lab Fun page.
12/27/2022 – The lab’s first experimental manuscript on polaritons, Rovibrational Polaritons in Gas-Phase Methane, is now on arXiv!
12/16/2022 – Ph.D students Alexander McKillop, Jane Nelson and Negar Baradaran officially join the Weichman Lab!
12/14/2022 – Marissa presents on our work at the 2nd Workshop on Molecular Quantum Technology in Puerto Natales, Chile.
10/20/2022 – The lab went to the Chemistry Department Retreat in Philadelphia. Congratulations to Ashley for winning a poster prize! Adam, Ashley and Marissa were also victorious in the Frick Cup trvia competition – see more on our Lab Fun page.
8/22/2022 – Incoming first year grad student Negar Baradaran joins us. Welcome Negar!
8/6/2022 – The Weichman Lab goes to the beach. See more on our Lab Fun page.
7/15/2022 – Victoria Zhang’s time with the group comes to an end with the QURIP poster session. All the best for the future, Victoria!
7/8/2022– Incoming first year grad students Alex McKillop and Jane Nelson join us for the summer. Welcome Alex and Jane!
6/15/2022 – Marissa presents on our work at the 2022 Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy Meeting in Lecco, Italy.
6/9/2022 – We have been awarded a 2022 DOE Early Career Award to support Ashley and Liying’s work on ultrafast polariton reaction dynamics. Exciting things to come! Check out the department news story here.
6/7/2022 – Marissa presents on our work at the Quantum Frontiers in Molecular Science virtual Telluride workshop.
6/6/2022 – Harvard undergraduate Victoria Zhang joins the group as a summer student for six weeks as part of the QURIP program. Welcome, Victoria!
4/6/2022 – Marissa presents on our work at the Princeton Institute for Materials symposium.
3/15/2022 – Adam and Ashley give talks at the APS March Meeting. Ashley was a finalist for the Justin Jankunas Doctoral Dissertation Award in Chemical Physics– congratulations, Ashley!
2/27/2022 – The Weichman Lab goes ice-skating. See more on our Lab Fun page.
12/15/2021 – Ph.D student Liying Chen officially joins the Weichman Lab!
11/20/2021 – The Weichman Lab takes on Philadelphia. See more on our Lab Fun page.
10/29/2021 – Marissa’s book chapter entitled “Optical Frequency Combs for Molecular Spectroscopy, Kinetics, and Sensing,” coauthored with Prof. Julia Lehman of the University of Leeds, has just been published in Emerging Trends in Chemical Applications of Lasers.
10/21/2021 – Marissa presents on our polariton projects at the Princeton Catalysis Initiative Symposium. Check out a recording of the talk on our seminars page.
10/17/2021 –The Weichman Lab goes to the Harriman State Park! See more on our Lab Fun page.
9/24/2021 – We have been awarded seed funding through the Princeton Center for Complex Materials! This funding will support a new project considering strong light-matter coupling in molecular monolayers and 2D materials. More to come!
9/12/2021 – The Weichman Lab goes kayaking on the D&R Canal and Lake Carnegie! See more on our Lab Fun page.
8/8/2021 – The Weichman Lab goes to the New Jersey State Fair! See more on our new Lab Fun page.
7/19/2021 – The Weichman Lab is thrilled to have been awarded our first external funding through the ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator program! This grant will support a new project to probe how the formation of hybrid light-matter states can let us rationally steer the chemistry of cold gas-phase molecules. Check out the department news story here to learn more.
7/1/2021 – Marissa presents on frequency comb spectroscopy of cold molecules as well as some of our upcoming ideas at the 2021 International Symposium on Molecular Beams!
7/1/2021 – The Weichman Lab welcomes Dr. Adam Wright as a postdoctoral research associate. Adam is joining us from the University of Oxford, where he completed his DPhil and postdoctoral work in condensed matter physics, advised by Prof. Laura Herz and Prof. Michael Johnston.
6/14/2021 – Huge congratulations to Dr. Ashley Fidler for winning a Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship! We can’t wait to see what she accomplishes with this support. Check out the department news story on Ashley and the work she’ll be spearheading in the Weichman Lab.
6/1/2021 – Princeton undergraduate Cameron Khan will be joining the Weichman Lab as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow through the Leach Summer Scholars Program this summer. Welcome, Cameron!
4/22/2021 – This was a big week for the Weichman Lab! Our laser lab renovations are complete, and we are nearly open for business. With the help of an amazing rigging team, we installed our Coherent Astrella ultrafast system. Happy inaugural Laser Day!
3/1/2021 – The Weichman Lab is excited to welcome Dr. Ashley Fidler as a postdoctoral research associate. Ashley joins us from the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed her Ph.D. in chemistry advised by Prof. Steve Leone and Prof. Dan Neumark.
7/1/2020 – Marissa has officially joined the faculty at the Princeton University Department of Chemistry and is launching the Weichman Lab!