Jennifer Ogilvie

Professor Ogilvie develops multidimensional optical spectroscopy and nonlinear microscopy methods that exploit the interactions between ultrafast pulses and matter. 

These methods require the generation, measurement and control of sequences of ultrafast pulses over a wide range of frequencies. Multidimensional spectroscopies reveal inhomogeneity, structure and ultrafast dynamics that are obscured in lower dimensional measurements. 

The Ogilvie group applies these powerful spectroscopic approaches to study the ultrafast energy transport and conversion processes in a wide range of materials including natural and artificial light-harvesting systems. 

• A. Niedringhaus, V. R. Policht, R. Sechrist, A. Konar, P. D. Laible, D. F. Bocian, D. Holten, C. Kirmaier, J. P. Ogilvie, Primary processes in the bacterial reaction center probed by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115, 3563-3568 (2018).
• V. Tiwari, Y. Acosta Matutes, A. Gardiner, R. J. Cogdell, J. P. Ogilvie, Fluorescence-detected Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy Spatially Resolves Varying Excitonic Structure in a Mixture of Photosynthetic Bacteria. Nature Communications 9, 4219 (2018).
• J. S. Cao, R. J. Cogdell, D. F. Coker, H. G. Duan, J. Hauer, U. Kleinekathofer, T. L. C. Jansen, T. Mancal, R. J. D. Miller, J. P. Ogilvie, V. I. Prokhorenko, T. Renger, H. S. Tan, R. Tempelaar, M. Thorwart, E. Thyrhaug, S. Westenhoff, D. Zigmantas, Quantum biology revisited. Science Advances 6,  (2020).
• M. R. Wasielewski, M. D. E. Forbes, N. L. Frank, K. Kowalski, G. D. Scholes, J. Yuen-Zhou, M. A. Baldo, D. E. Freedman, R. H. Goldsmith, T. Goodson, M. L. Kirk, J. K. McCusker, J. P. Ogilvie, D. A. Shultz, S. Stoll, K. B. Whaley, Exploiting chemistry and molecular systems for quantum information science. Nature Reviews Chemistry, 490–504 (2020).
• Y. Song, R. Sechrist, H. H. Nguyen, W. Johnson, D. Abramavicius, K. E. Redding, J. P. Ogilvie, Excitonic structure and charge separation in the heliobacterial reaction center probed by multispectral multidimensional spectroscopy. Nature Communications 12, 2801 (2021).
• V. R. Policht, A. Niedringhaus, R. Willow, P. D. Laible, D. F. Bocian, C. Kirmaier, D. Holten, T. Mančal, J. P. Ogilvie, Hidden vibronic and excitonic structure and vibronic coherence transfer in the bacterial reaction center. Science Advances 8, eabk0953 (2022).
• H. H. Nguyen, Y. Song, E. L. Maret, Y. Silori, R. Willow, C. F. Yocum, J. P. Ogilvie, Charge separation in the photosystem II reaction center resolved by multispectral two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. Science Advances 9, eade7190 (2023).
• Y. Silori, R. Willow, H. H. Nguyen, G. Shen, Y. Song, C. J. Gisriel, G. W. Brudvig, D. A. Bryant, J. P. Ogilvie, Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of the Far-Red-Light Photosystem II Reaction Center. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 14, 10300-10308 (2023).
• S. E. Sanders, M. Zhang, A. Javed, J. P. Ogilvie, Expanding the bandwidth of fluorescence-detected two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy using a broadband continuum probe pulse pair. Optics Express 32, 8887-8902 (2024).