Professor Randall Goldsmith
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Deploying photonics technologies for chemical and biophysical measurements”
I will discuss how my group uses whispering gallery mode microresonators, microFabry-Perot cavities, plasmonic nanostructures, and topological photonic structures to develop new instrumentation for making measurements on single molecules and biomolecules.
Randall Goldsmith
Randall Goldsmith is the Helfaer Professor of Chemistry and an affiliate of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He completed undergraduate degrees in chemistry and biology (2002) at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D at Northwestern University (2008) studying photoinduced electron transfer under the direction of Professors Michael Wasielewski and Mark Ratner, and performed post-doctoral work at Stanford University with Professor W.E. Moerner, where he became profoundly convinced that molecules deserve to be looked at one at a time. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin Madison since 2011 where his research interests span single-molecule spectroscopy, micro and nanophotonics, chemical catalysis, photochemistry, and biophysics. His work has been recognized with a DARPA young faculty award, NSF CAREER award, Alzheimer’s Association Young Faculty Award, Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship Award. He was recently designated a Schmidt Futures Polymath.
331 Smith Hall