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SUMMARY:Coherent energy transfer in photosynthetic light harvesting
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Gregory Scholes\, Princeton\nUltrafast Dynamics of Excit
 ons in Chemistry and Biology: Coherent Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic L
 ight Harvesting\nProf. Scholes’ research includes the design and study o
 f new nanocrystalline semi-conductors\, ultrafast laser spectroscopy\, the
 ory of energy transfer and the photophysics of p-conjugated systems. A the
 me of the research program centers around solar energy conversion. Major g
 oals include the application of a new two-dimensional spectroscopy to watc
 h chemical reactions and see how the electrons form bonds and how the othe
 r electrons in the system respond.\nThe goal is to understand correlated m
 otions of electrons so that synthetic design can move beyond the mean-fiel
 d concepts proposed by Pauling and others almost a century ago. The second
  major goal is to investigate how photosynthetic antenna proteins in marin
 e algae collectively transfer solar energy to the photosystems. Recent wor
 k in his group has shown that even at physiological temperature\, the ligh
 t-absorbing molecules in each protein are quantum-mechanically wired toget
 her. New work is aimed at understanding how these quantum mechanical energ
 y transfer processes evolved.\nBio: Prof. Scholes is currently a full prof
 essor in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University. In 1994\, he
  received his Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne before pursuing his pos
 tdoctoral studies in the lab of Prof. D. Phillips at Imperial College as a
  Ramsay Memorial research fellow. He pursued further postdoctoral work in 
 the Prof. G. R. Fleming lab at the University of California\, Berkeley.\nI
 n 2000\, Prof. Scholes became an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the U
 niversity of Toronto\, where he was promoted to full professor in 2010. Pr
 of. Scholes was awarded the D.J. LeRoy Distinguished Professorship before 
 starting his career at Princeton University in 2014. He has been the recip
 ient of multiple prestigious awards throughout his career\, including the 
 NSERC John C. Polanyi Award (2013)\, the Royal Society of Chemistry Bourke
  Award (2012)\, and the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Physical Scie
 nces (2011).\nScholes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy 
 of Science) and the recipient of the 2007 Rutherford Memorial Medal in Che
 mistry. His work remains among the most highly cited in the community.
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