Dr. Evgeny Danilov, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate 
In late January, Dr. Evgeny Danilov joined the staff of Ohio State’s Department of Chemistry as a Senior Research Associate, becoming the fourth IMR Member of Technical Staff on campus to provide high-level technical support for materials researchers on campus. Dr. Danilov will manage the operations of the Center for Chemical and Biophysical Dynamics (CCBD), a laser facility in Newman-Wolfrom Laboratory. Through a partnership between IMR and Chemistry, he has been tasked with taking this multi-user research facility and turning it into a facility open to the entire materials community.
Researchers use CCBD instrumentation to perform several forms of ultrafast laser spectroscopy to observe photogenerated intermediates in biological, chemical, physical, and materials systems on femtosecond (10-15 s) time scale. A highlight of the lab is a million-dollar ultrafast laser system which makes it possible to perform dynamic studies of photochemical intermediates over a wide time and spectral range.
Dr. Danilov comes to us from the University of Texas at Dallas, where he was a Senior Research Scientist for the Department of Physics and Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Laser Physics, and previously worked at Bowling Green State University as Research Coordinator for the Ohio Laboratory for Kinetic Spectrometry. IMR and the Chemistry Department plan to announce the CCBD as an open facility in the upcoming months. In the interim, Dr. Danilov can be reached at danilov.3@osu.edu.