11/21/2025 Mikael is a co-author on a new paper published in ACS Nano entitled Hemicellulose Modulates Nanoscale Lignin Architecture in Synthetic Plant Cell Walls.
10/8/2025 A new preprint, Photoswitchable radicals as reporter spins for quantum sensing with spin defects in diamond, has been posted on the arXiv.
8/22/2025 Mikael gave an invited presentation at the Quantum Sensing for Biological and Medical Research workshop at Stanford University. Read about it here.
6/26/2025 Mikael will be an invited presenter next week at the 19th US-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Read about it here.
6/13/2025 Mikael has been selected as a Scialog Fellow by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. He will participate in the Scialog meeting on Quantum Matter and Information in October.
6/9/2025 Aksshay is a recipient of Arthur W. Sloan Prize for teaching excellence. Congratulations Aksshay!
4/23/2025 Our paper “Direct Observation of Three Chiral Conformers of an Atomically Precise Metal Nanoparticle” has been accepted for publication in Nano Letters!
3/16/2025 Lakshmy is the recipient of 2025 Young Chemists Committee (YCC) Travel Award!
3/4/2025 Mikael has received an NSF CAREER Award!
3/4/2025 Aarnah Kurella has been awarded the Steven C. Zimmerman Scholarship for Undergraduate Research. Congratulations Aarnah!
3/4/2025 Suhruth Reddy is the recipient of the Spudich Scholarship for Undergraduate Research. Congrats Suhruth!
1/27/2025 Our paper “Quantum sensing in the fractional Fourier domain” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Applied!
12/23/2024 Our new paper Quantum-inspired super-resolution of fluorescent point-like sources has been posted on the arXiv.
12/20/2024 Our new paper Direct Observation of Three Chiral Conformers of an Atomically Precise Metal Nanoparticle has been posted on the ChemRxiv.
10/1/2024 MatSE PhD student Peyton Miller has joined the group!
8/23/2024 Cheyenne and Lakshmy presented posters at the ACS Fall Meeting in Denver. Lakshmy received an outstanding poster award for exemplary research. Congratulations Lakshmy!
8/7/2024 Aksshay has been awarded the Thor R Rubin Fellowship. Congratulations Aksshay!
7/24/2024 Zach Burke is the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Undergraduate Research Excellence award. Congrats Zach!
5/8/2024 Our new paper Quantum sensing in the fractional Fourier domain has been posted on the arXiv.
2/26/2024 Mikael is named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow! He will participate in next week’s Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in Irvine, CA.
12/18/2023 Biophysics graduate student Dhananjay Dhruva has joined the group. Welcome Djay!
11/27/2023 Anish Kumar Das has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Anish!
10/23/2023 Chemistry graduate student Aksshay Nandakumar Regeni joins the group. Welcome Aksshay!
7/18/2023 Our paper “Tight information bounds for spontaneous emission lifetime resolution of quantum sources with varied spectral purity” has been accepted in Physical Review A!
6/14/2023 Mikael is a 2023 Beckman Young Investigator Awardee! Read about it here.
5/11/2023 Our new paper Tight information bounds for spontaneous emission lifetime resolution of quantum sources with varied spectral purity has been posted on the arXiv.
4/5/2023 Zach Burke is the recipient of the Fred C. and Josephine C. Falkner Scholarship for Undergraduate Research. Congrats, Zach!
9/1/2022 Our collaborative proposal to develop quantum-enabled bioimaging and sensing for bioenergy has been awarded by the US Department of Energy! The multi-institution team includes Paul Kwiat (UIUC Physics), Gina Lorenz (UIUC Physics), Simeon Bogdanov (UIUC ECE), and collaborators from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Mikael will serve as lead PI.
8/22/2022 Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Mingcai Xie joins the group. Welcome Mingcai!
8/16/2022 Cheyenne has been awarded the Thor R Rubin Fellowship, and Lakshmy has been awarded the Coleman Fellowship. Congratulations Cheyenne and Lakshmy!
6/15/2022 Lakshmy is a recipient of a Chemistry Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award. Congratulations Lakshmy!
5/24/2022 Our paper “Quantum limits to resolution and discrimination of spontaneous emission lifetimes” has been accepted in Physical Review A!
4/28/2022 Mikael has received the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh Starter Grant Award.
2/9/2022 Our new paper Quantum limits to resolution and discrimination of spontaneous emission lifetimes has been posted on the arXiv.
12/7/2021 After a rotation earlier in the semester, Biophysics graduate student Armine Dingilian will officially join the group. Welcome Armine!
8/16/2021 Graduate student Lakshmy Priya Ajayakumar has been awarded the Victor E. Buhrke Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations Lakshmy!
3/1/2021 Chemistry graduate student Lakshmy Priya Ajayakumar joins the group. Welcome Lakshmy!
2/8/2021 Biophysics graduate student Swastik Hegde officially joins the group. Welcome Swastik!
10/26/2020 Chemistry graduate students Cheyenne Mitchell and David Durden join the group. Welcome Cheyenne and David!
8/1/2020 Mikael officially starts as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry