Roel Tempelaar
Email: rt2609-at-columbia-dot-edu
Research Interests
- Dynamics and optical response of excitations in organic materials
- Microscopic origin of singlet fission
- Simulations of ultrafast multidimensional spectroscopy
Education
- Ph.D., Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials/University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2015 (Advisors: Jasper Knoester and Thomas la Cour Jansen)
- M.Sc. in Physics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2011 (Advisor: Jasper Knoester)
- Visiting student in Frank Spano's group at Temple University, Philadelphia
- B.Sc. in Physics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2009
Honors
- Rubicon Fellowship, awarded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (2016)
- Ph.D. with distinction Cum Laude (2015)
- First poster prize, awarded by the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (2014)
- M.Sc. with distinction Cum Laude (2011)
- Talent Fellowship of the Huygens Scholarship Programme (2010)
Publications
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- R. Tempelaar, A. Halpin, P.J.M. Johnson, J. Cai, R.S. Murphy, J. Knoester, R.J.D. Miller, and T.L.C. Jansen, Laser-Limited Signatures of Quantum Coherence. J. Phys. Chem. A Article ASAP.
- R. Tempelaar, L.J.A. Koster, R.W.A. Havenith, J. Knoester, and T.L.C. Jansen, Charge Recombination Suppressed by Destructive Quantum Interference in Heterojunction Materials. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 198 (2016).
- N.J. Hestand, R. Tempelaar, J. Knoester, T.L.C. Jansen, and F.C. Spano, Exciton mobility control through sub-Å packing modifications in molecular crystals. Phys. Rev. B 91, 195315 (2015).
- A. Halpin, P.J.M. Johnson, R. Tempelaar, R.S. Murphy, J. Knoester, T.L.C. Jansen, and R.J.D. Miller, Two-dimensional spectroscopy of a molecular dimer unveils the effects of vibronic coupling on exciton coherences. Nature Chem. 6, 196 (2014).
- R. Tempelaar, F.C. Spano, J. Knoester, and T.L.C. Jansen, Mapping the evolution of spatial exciton coherence through time-resolved fluorescence. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5, 1505 (2014).
- R. Tempelaar, T.L.C. Jansen, and J. Knoester, Vibrational beatings conceal evidence of electronic coherence in the FMO light-harvesting complex. J. Phys. Chem. B 118, 12865 (2014).
- R. Tempelaar, C.P. van der Vegte, J. Knoester, and T.L.C. Jansen, Surface hopping modeling of two-dimensional spectra. J. Chem. Phys. 138, 164106 (2013).
- R. Tempelaar, A. Stradomska, J. Knoester, and F.C. Spano, Anatomy of an Exciton: Vibrational Distortion and Exciton Coherence in H- and J-Aggregates. J. Phys. Chem. B 117, 457 (2013).
- R. Tempelaar, A. Stradomska, J. Knoester, and F.C. Spano, Circularly polarized luminescence as a probe for long-range interactions in molecular aggregates. J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 10592 (2011).