Papanikolas Group
Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Microscopy
John Papanikolas
Professor of Chemistry
John received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Bowdoin College in 1987, before moving to the University of Colorado at Boulder/JILA. There, he earned his PhD in Chemical Physics in 1994 with Carl Lineberger and Robert Parson studying cage recombination dynamics in mass-selected ionic clusters. Afterwards, he remained at JILA to pursue postdoctoral work with Stephen Leone. In the Leone group he combined ultrafast pulse-shaping methods with high-resolution state selection to achieve coherent control over wave packet motion. In 1997 he moved to the University of North Carolina and joined the Department of Chemistry. Since 2009 he has served as Deputy Director of the UNC Energy Frontier Research Center.
Papanikolas Group (2013)
Current Group
Front Row (left to right): Li Wang, Ernest Vallorz, Stephanie Bettis, Melissa Gish, Emma Cating, Michelle Gabriel, Will Fondrie. Back Row (left to right): Alexander Gilligan, David Zigler, Justin Kirschbrown, Zach Morseth, Erik Grumstrup, Robert Brown, Aaron Brown, John Papanikolas
Graduate Students
Michelle Gabriel
Emma Cating
Zachary Morseth
Melissa Gish
Erika Van Goethem
Jason Malizia
Postdocs
David Zigler
Robert Dillon
Undergraduates
Alex Gilligan
Stephen Page
Former Group Members
Graduate Students
Stephanie Bettis
Justin Kirschbrown
Robert Brown
Ryan Vary
Brittany Westlake
Brian Mehl
Ralph House
Kyle Brennaman
David Styers-Barnett
Erika Gannon
George Shaw
Cavan Fleming
Postdocs
Erik Grumstrup
Li Wang
Ming Liu
Undergraduates
Alex Gilligan
Stephen Page
Aaron Brown
Ernest Vallorz
Will Fondrie
Chris Mize
Anna Curtis
Scott Barnes
Shaun Hampton
Chuan Zhang
Abhineet Uppal
Jeremy Granger
Stephen Ellison
Paul Jang
Carter Brown
Papanikolas Group
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill