Director: Dr. Claudia Turro
Claudia Turro received her B.S. with Honors in 1987 from Michigan State University. She worked with Daniel G. Nocera and George E. Leroi at Michigan State University and received her Ph.D. in 1992. She was awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral work at Columbia University with Nicholas J. Turro (no relation) from 1992 to 1995, and has been a faculty member at The Ohio State University since 1996.
Please visit Dr. Turro’s personal website or group research website for more information.
Manager: Dr. Barbara Dunlap
Barbara received her B.S. degree in Physics from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Her undergraduate research advisor was Dr. David Statman where she did research measuring the gliding in liquid crystals when excited with polarized light and during an internship at the Research Institute for Solid State Physical and Optical of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary the samples were excited with a magnetic field. The research was written up as her Senior Compressive Project entitled “A Comparison of Doping Liquid Crystals Samples with Methyl Red and Disperse Orange 3 Azo Dyes for the Purpose of Making Hologrmas”. While in undergrad, she also did an internship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) through the Society of Physics Students (SPS) in Gaithersburg, Maryland working with Dr. Nadine Gergel-Hackett. During this internship, she fabricated and characterized flexible TiO2 memory devices.
Barbara received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York where she worked for Dr. David McCamant. Her research here focused on developing a femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) that was an analogue of 2D IR with the purpose of measuring anharmonic coupling between vibrational modes. Her thesis was entitled “New Methods in Two-Dimensional Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy”.
Since December 2014, she has been the manager of the Center of Chemical and Biochemical Dynamics (CCBD), where she keeps the lasers running and helps graduate students set up the lasers to run their experiments.
Office: 0103 Newman & Wolfrom Laboratory
Telephone: (614)-247-4754
Email: Dunlap.300@osu.edu