nginsberg@berkeley.edu
(510) 643-9153
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Ginsberg Group
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics
Faculty Scientist, Materials Science Division, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Member, Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2016), UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry Teaching Award (2015), Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2015), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2015), UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry Teaching Award (2013), DARPA Young Faculty Awardee (2012), Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering (2011), Cupola Era Endowed Chair in the College of Chemistry (2010-2012) Glenn T. Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Physical Biosciences Division-Fleming group), 2007-2010 Ph. D., Harvard University (Physics-Hau group) 2007 B. A. Sc., University of Toronto (Engineering Science) 2000
I am a scientist currently focused on visualizing ultrafast energy flow in natural and artificial light harvesting systems and on combining electron and optical microscopies to facilitate high-resolution studies of living things and molecular interactions in solution. My background in chemistry, physics, and engineering has led me to observe coherent and previously obscured energy transfer in light harvesting complexes from plants, to develop polarization techniques in ultrafast multidimensional spectroscopy to extract structure from electronically-coupled systems, to slow, stop, and store light pulses in some of the coldest atom clouds on Earth, and to discover, follow, and understand the interactions of superfluid nonlinear excitations.