Naomi Ginsberg

Naomi Shauna Ginsberg (born 1979 in Halifax, Nova Scotia), is an electrical engineer, physicist, and scientist. She is currently an associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Naomi Ginsberg
Born1979
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Alma materHarvard University
Known forPhysics, Chemistry
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisManipulations with spatially compressed slow light pulses in Bose-Einstein condensates (2007)
Doctoral advisorLene Hau

Life and education

Ginsberg earned her B.ASc. in engineering at the University of Toronto in 2000, and completed her PhD in physics at Harvard.

Her initial interest was biomedicine, but she graduated with an electrical engineering focus, and an emphasis on physics and optics. Accepted into Harvard, and whilst in the research group of physics professor Lene Hau, Ginsberg studied Bose–Einstein condensates, ultracold clouds of atoms that exist at temperatures just a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

After being awarded her PhD for her thesis entitled "Manipulations with spatially compressed slow light pulses in Bose–Einstein condensates" with Lene Hau as her thesis advisor,[1] Ginsberg chose to change direction and include other interests, moving to Berkeley to begin her postdoctoral research in 2007 with Graham Fleming as her advisor. She held a Glenn T. Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, until her appointment as assistant professor in the Chemistry department at UC Berkeley in 2010.

Work

In a series of experiments the Hau Group at Harvard (which included Ginsberg) halted and stored a light signal in a condensate of sodium atoms, then transferred the signal into a second sodium cloud 160 μm away. The American Institute of Physics listed this feat as #1 in its Top Ten discoveries of 2007.[2]

Ginsberg was the lead author on the paper "Coherent control of optical information with matter wave dynamics", that appeared on the cover of Nature [3] in February of that year.[2]

She now leads the Ginsberg Group, whose research objective is "to spatially resolve the complex dynamics of nanoscale processes such as photosynthetic light harvesting."[4] Her current work is centered on "pushing the limits of spatially resolved spectroscopy and time resolved microscopy in multiple modalities", in order to try and answer fundamental and challenging questions that span chemistry, physics, and biology. Ginsberg's group uses multiple approaches, including ultrafast spectroscopy, light microscopy, and cathodoluminescence electron microscopy.[5]

Awards

In 2011, Ginsberg was awarded the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

In 2012, Her research attracted support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA in the form of a Young Faculty Award for her work in "Predictive Materials Science; "Beneath the Bulk: Domain-Specific Efficiency and Degradation in Organic Photovoltaic Thin Films""[6]

Ginsberg currently holds The Cupola Era Endowed Chair in the College of Chemistry, and is a Faculty Scientist in the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

In 2015, Ginsberg was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship.[7]

Publications
  • G. S. Schlau-Cohen, A. Ishizaki, T. R. Calhoun, N. S. Ginsberg, M. Ballottari, R. Bassi, and G. R. Fleming. "Elucidation of the timescales and origins of quantum electronic coherence in LHCII", Nature Chemistry, 4, 389 (2012).
  • N. S. Ginsberg, J. D. Davis, M. Ballottari, Y.-C. Cheng, R. Bassi, and G. R. Fleming. "Solving structure in the CP29 light harvesting complex with polarization-phased 2D electronic spectroscopy", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 3848–3853 (2011).
  • G. S. Schlau-Cohen, T. R. Calhoun, N. S. Ginsberg, M. Ballottari, R. Bassi, G. R. Fleming. "Spectroscopic Elucidation of Uncoupled Transition Energies in the Major Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complex, LHCII", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 13276 (2010).
  • T. R. Calhoun, N. S. Ginsberg, G. S. Schlau-Cohen, Y-C. Cheng, M. Ballottari, R. Bassi, and G. R. Fleming. "Quantum Coherence Enabled Determination of the Energy Landscape in Light Harvesting Complex II", Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 113, 16291 (2009). (cover article)
  • G. S. Schlau-Cohen, T. R. Calhoun, N. S. Ginsberg, E. L. Read, M. Ballottari, R. Bassi, G. R. Fleming. "Mapping Pathways of Energy Flow in LHCII with Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy", Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 113, 15352 (2009).
  • Ginsberg, N. S.; Cheng, Y.-C.; Fleming, G. R. (2009). "Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of molecular aggregates". Accounts of Chemical Research. 42 (9): 1352–63. doi:10.1021/ar9001075. PMID 19691358.
  • N. S. Ginsberg, S. R. Garner, L. V. Hau. "Coherent control of optical information with matter wave dynamics", Nature 445, 623 (2007). – cover article; featured in New York Times, National Public Radio, Nature video stream and podcast
  • Slowe, C.; Ginsberg, N. S.; Ristroph, T.; Goodsell, A.; Hau, L. V. (2005). "Ultraslow Light & Bose–Einstein Condensates: Two-way Control with Coherent Light & Atom Fields". Optics & Photonics News. 16 (5): 30. Bibcode:2005OptPN..16R..30S. doi:10.1364/opn.16.5.000030.
  • N. S. Ginsberg, J. Brand, L. V. Hau. "Observation of Hybrid Soliton Vortex-Ring Structures in Bose–Einstein Condensates", Physical Review Letters 94, 040403 (2005) – highlighted in American Institute of Physics' Physics News Update, Physics Today's Physics Update, and selected as one of 44 articles from 2005 to be highlighted in APS News, February 2006
  • Dutton, Z.; Ginsberg, N. S.; Slowe, C.; Hau, L. V. (2004). "The Art of Taming Light: Ultra-slow and Stopped Light". Europhysics News. 35 (2): 33. Bibcode:2004ENews..35...33D. doi:10.1051/epn:2004201.
  • Hoult, D. I.; Ginsberg, N. S. (2001). "The Quantum Origins of the Free Induction Decay Signal and Spin Noise". Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 148 (1): 182–99. Bibcode:2001JMagR.148..182H. doi:10.1006/jmre.2000.2229. PMID 11133292.

References
  1. "Harvard Physics Department - PhD Theses: 2000 to present". Physics.harvard.edu. 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  2. "UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry - News and Publications - Chemistry welcomes Naomi Ginsberg: Bringing photosynthesis to light". Chemistry.berkeley.edu. 2011-01-18. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  3. Ginsberg, N. S.; Garner, S. R.; Hau, L. V. (2007). "Coherent control of optical information with matter wave dynamics : Abstract". Nature. 445 (7128): 623–626. doi:10.1038/nature05493. PMID 17287804.
  4. "Research - Ginsberg Group". UC Berkeley. Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  5. "Interdisciplinary". berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-01-12. Retrieved 2013-01-25.
  6. "2012 Young Faculty Award Recipients". Darpa.mil. Archived from the original on 2013-02-21. Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  7. "Sloan Fellowships Give Research Boost to Nine Young Faculty". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved Mar 11, 2015.
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