2023-2024 Graduate Student Fellow
Faculty Advisor: Professor Naomi Ginsberg
Leo Hamerlynck was a 5th year Chemistry Ph. D. candidate in the Ginsberg group, during his Kavli fellowship. Leo received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Arizona in 2018, where his undergraduate research was on surface chemistry of anatase thin films for photovoltaic applications.
Leo Hamerlynck’s graduate research focused on energy transport within complex nanoscale systems, particularly photosynthetic systems. Leo used time-resolved spectroscopic and microscopic techniques to study how energy carriers migrate following photoexcitation. Previously, he has used transient absorption anisotropy to characterize incoherent intra-complex energy transfer in a biomimetic light-harvesting protein complex, demonstrating the significant impact that disorder in energy and chromophore configuration have on long-ranged energy transport in such systems.