Jessica Anna

Solar energy conversion, in both natural and artificial systems, involves the absorption of a photon that can then lead to a series of energy and electron transfer events. Research in the Anna group focuses on investigating these photoinduced processes in a variety of systems including natural photosynthetic complexes; isolated cofactors and artificial light harvesting chromophores; and bioinspired systems and photocatalyst. To investigate these systems we use pump-probe and multidimensional spectroscopies in the visible and mid-IR spectral regions. Through our studies, we aim to gain a deeper understanding of the fundamental processes and ultrafast dynamics that govern solar energy conversion, which could lead to further insight and chemical intuition into how to tune and optimize energy transfer pathways and electron transfer events in
artificial photosynthetic systems, organic photovoltaic materials,
and photocatalysts.

This research spans interests across the fields of natural
and artificial photosynthesis, photovoltaics, and photocatalysis.

The Anna Group is currently accepting new graduate students.