PIs

Professor, Director, Northwestern University 🔗
Status: unreviewed revisit date: None Application status: none LOR status: not_needed
Department(s)/lab(s): Chemistry | Wasielewski Group / Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction @ Northwestern
Summary:

Wasielewski's group uses ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer within covalently linked organic donor-acceptor molecules to generate pairs of entangled electron spins (spin-correlated radical ion pairs) that behave as optically-initialized, microwave-addressable molecular qubits. Building on this platform, the group demonstrated explicit quantum sensing of electric fields via molecular-recognition-induced changes in a spin-correlated radical pair, alongside DNA-hairpin-hosted spin-qubit pairs and chirality-induced spin selectivity effects -- extending photosynthetic radical-pair chemistry into a designed quantum-sensing and quantum-information platform.

Created at: July 10, 2026, 2:45 a.m. Updated at: July 10, 2026, 2:45 a.m. Metadata: Reviewed July 2026 via Northwestern Chemistry faculty page and CMQT publications list.