Recent PhD graduate Matt Bain joins us from Mike Ashfold’s legendary group in Bristol, UK, bringing a wealth of experience in spectroscopy, optics and coding. He joins the MURI project working alongside Mike Kellogg, bringing organic chemistry and ultrafast spectroscopies together (hopefully) for the benefit of the masses!

Ammonia legend Tillmann Buttersack hails from Pavel Jungwirth’s group at IOCB in Prague to join the liquid ammonia microjet photoelectron spectroscopy project. Tillmann’s expertise will help complement our current x-ray successes with our laser-based experiments here at USC with the group’s other liquid ammonia connoisseur and bringer of bad smells into the lab, Ryan McMullen.