de Vries Group Members
Graduate Students
Collaborators & Visitors
Technische Universität München, Germany
Dr. Hill is a computation chemistry proffesor from Jackson State University. He has collaborated with us on multiple project, including our recent study on PNA by preforming numerous calculations to be matched to our expermental data. Dr. Hill is also one of the initiators in the JUMP program which parterners UCSB and JSU students probviding oportunities for both to share their research and for the students of JSU to get laboratory expereince through summer internships at UCSB.
Mrs. Petterson is the Associate Scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute. She has worked closely with us on multiple projects concerned with cultural heritage. Her knowledge indepth knowledge of conservation guided us on studying the anthroquinones dyes as pigments of particular interest to conservators and motivated our interest in identifyng the substances present in a painting through analysis of the layers.
Dr. Szabla is a proffesor at the University of Edinburough. He has worked closely with us on many of our nucleobase projects including isoguanine, 2,6-diaminopurine, and xanthine by performing computational calculations that help elucidate the excited state dynamics we see experimentally.
Dr. Smith is an anthropologist at UCSB who specilized in Nubian archaeology. We have a longstanding collaboration with Dr. Smith and have done studies analyzing pottery from Askut and Tombos, two Nubian fortress sites for the presence of wine.
Past Graduate Students
The Interface of Chemistry, Art & Archaeology
Origin of Life
Elucidating electronic structure of curcumin
Origins of life
DNA Excited State Dynamics
Origin of Life
Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer
Curve Fitting
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Former Members
Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf, Germany
The Interface of Chemistry, Art & Archaeology
The Interface of Chemistry, Art & Archaeology
Origin of Life