Roel Tempelaar
Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: University of Groningen, Netherlands 2015
- roel.tempelaar@northwestern.edu
- Website
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- Ryan 4015B
- Program Assistant: Mirjeta (Jeta) Remaley
Research Statement
Selected Publications
Tempelaar, R. & Berkelbach, T. C. Many-body simulation of two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of excitons and trions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. Nat. Commun. 10, 3419 (2019).
Thyrhaug, E., Tempelaar, R., Alcocer, M. J. P., Žídek, K., Bína, D., Knoester, J., Jansen, T. L. C., & Zigmantas, D. Identification and characterization of diverse coherences in the Fenna–Matthews–Olson complex. Nat. Chem. 10, 780 (2018).
Tempelaar, R. & Reichman, D. R. Generalization of fewest-switches surface hopping for coherences. J. Chem. Phys. 148, 102309 (2018).
Breen, I., Tempelaar, R., Bizimana, L. A., Kloss, B., Reichman, D. R., & Turner, D. B. Triplet separation drives singlet fission after femtosecond correlated triplet pair production in rubrene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 11745 (2017).
Tempelaar, R., Jansen, T. L. C., & Knoester, J. Vibrational beatings conceal evidence of electronic coherence in the FMO light-harvesting complex. J. Phys. Chem. B 118, 12865 (2014).
Halpin, A., Johnson, P. J. M., Tempelaar, R., Murphy, R. S., Knoester, J., Jansen, T. L. C., & Miller, R. J. D. Two-dimensional spectroscopy of a molecular dimer unveils the effects of vibronic coupling on exciton coherences. Nat. Chem. 6, 196 (2014).
Selected Honors/Awards
- 2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Penn Conference in Theoretical Chemistry
- 2016 Rubicon Grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
- 2010 Huygens Scholarship Programme from the Dutch Ministry of Education