Higgins
Dr. Jacob Higgins
I am an NRC postdoc using XUV frequency combs to search for the anomalously low nuclear transition of thorium-229 with the goal of building a nuclear clock. I completed my Ph.D. in the Engel Group at the University of Chicago studying the relationship between vibronic coupling and evolutionary photoprotection in photosynthetic proteins using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy.
Room(s)
S124
Email
jacob.higgins@jila.colorado.edu
Phone
303-492-4058
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