Department Hires Experimental Physical Chemist

After an international search the department hired Colin Heyes to fill the role in the physical division beginning fall 2008. He holds a doctorate in physical chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology, under the direction of Mostafa A. El- Sayed. He holds a B.Sc. in chemistry from Loughborough University. Heyes is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He was previously a postdoctoral research associate in biophysics at University of Ulm, Germany.

Among the awards he has received are the House-Flashka Ashby Award from Georgia Tech for outstanding graduate research, an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellowship at the University of Ulm and Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) long-term fellowship.

Heyes will bring to the department expertise in experimental single molecule spectroscopy and he will be combining this technique with quantum dots to address some fundamental biochemical questions.