Carpenter Group

People

William (Memo) Carpenter (he/him)

Assistant Professor, OSU Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Member of the OSU Biophysics Graduate Program
osu email: carpenter.1279

Memo’s research career started in ultrafast aqueous spectroscopy, first in the Saykally Group as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. As a graduate student in the Tokmakoff Group at UChicago (PhD 2020), Memo developed two-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectroscopy experiments to study the structures and dynamics of the common but mysterious aqueous proton H+(aq). Memo then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in the Moerner Lab at Stanford. There, he employed single-molecule microscopy to monitor biological nanocontainers in a solution-phase anti-Brownian trap. Memo’s new lab at OSU will develop single-molecule spectroscopy methods to study the fascinating dynamical properties of soft nanoparticles.

Favorite SCUBA Destination: Channel Islands National Park

Graduate Student Researchers

Frey Frenelle (they/them)

OSU Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Biochemistry Division
osu email: frenelle.3

Favorite art medium: Ceramics

Arpita Mahata (she/her)

OSU Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Physical Chemistry Division
osu email: mahata.5

Favorite Poet: Mirza Ghalib

Undergraduate Student Researchers

Everett Snyder (he/him)

OSU Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Chemistry Major, Class of 2026
osu email: snyder.2034

Favorite tourist attraction: The Chicago Bean

Postdoctoral Researchers

This a nudibranch. While not a nanoparticle, it is also small and biological and we have a great fondness for it.

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Open Position

We have an opening available for a motivated postdoctoral researcher with previous experience using laser microscopy/spectroscopy in physical chemistry, biophysics, or related fields. Interested persons should contact Dr. Carpenter directly via email with a CV and a short description of projects of interest.