Dr. Chi Zhang Research Group

We play with photons!

News

1/25/2022

Matt Clark gave an oral and a poster presentation at SPIE Photonics West BIOS in San Franciso, 2022. He talked about our precision opto-control technology and the pulse picking method. 

1/12/2022

Ezinne Uzoamaka Osuji joined our lab. Zizy is a second-year pre-pharmacy undergraduate student. Welcome!

11/12/2021

Congratulations to Gil on passing his OP! Let's work towards the next target.

11/11/2021 CBM funding

Our research is funded by the Center for Bioanalytical Metrology!

10/29/2021 Welcome new students!

First-year graduate students Seohee Ma and Helen Campbell joined our lab. Welcome!! We will play with photons together.

10/26/2021

Congratulations to Matt on passing his OP! You are now a Ph.D. candidate! It's time to start working towards your defense.

09/26/2021

Matt has presented his poster at the Turkey Run Analytical Chemistry Conference and won the Best Poster Award. Great job!

07/05/2021 Chautauqua 2021

16th Chautauqua on NLO is a success, we hosted more than 20 participants from 7 countries. We have covered optical polarization, SHG and SFG spectroscopy, CRS microscopy, and 2D-IR spectroscopy.

Teaching fall 2021

Dr. Chi Zhang will be teaching the graduate level CHM696, Chemical Imaging for Biological and Medical Sciences in the fall semester of 2021. Welcome to register for the course!

5/22/2021 Congratulations to Kent on getting married!

5/19/2021 After three weeks of no laser, it's finally back online!

Now we can get back to business!

3/29/2021 Dr. Chi Zhang joined the Purdue Center for Cancer Research (PCCR)

This will certainly help our cancer research through more collaborations!

2/15/2021 Welcome undergraduate student Oliver (Juntao) Shi

Oliver (Juntao) Shi will join us this semester. Oliver is an undergraduate student with a biochemistry major.

Teaching spring 2021

Dr. Chi Zhang will be teaching the undergraduate level CHM424, Instrumental Analysis, in the spring semester of 2021.

10/31/2020 Welcome new students Matt Clark and Kent Brasseale!

Matt Clark and Kent Brasseale joined our lab. Matt is a second-year graduate student in the analytical division. Kent is a first-year graduate student also in the analytical division. Welcome!!!

10/14/2020 Our laser was installed.

This is the first Insight X3+ laser in the world.

09/28/2020 Welcome graduate student Gil Gonzalez!

Gil Gonzalez is a second-year graduate student in biochemistry. Gil decided to join our group. Welcome!!!

09/23/2020 Optical tables have arrived

Our optical tables were installed. We will start to build microscopes soon!

Teaching Fall 2020

Dr. Chi Zhang will be teaching CHM69600, Chemical Imaging for Biological and Medical Sciences in the fall semester of 2020.

Lab under construction

We started on August 3, 2020. Our lab is currently under construction. We will develop novel optical imaging systems, and use our imaging tools to study cell metabolism.

07/05/2020 Welcome graduate student Jesus Aldana-Mendoza!

Jesus Aldana-Mendoza is a second-year graduate student in biochemistry. Jesus decided to join our group. Welcome!!!