Philipp Kukura
Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Philipp Kukura was born in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia and moved to Germany at the age of four, where he grew up. He read Chemistry at St Hugh’s College Oxford until 2002, did a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley with Rich Mathies before moving to ETH Zurich to work with Vahid Sandoghdar. He returned to Oxford initially as an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow in 2010. He was elected to a tutorial fellowship at Exeter College in 2011 and promoted to Full Professor in 2016. He have received awards by the Royal Society of Chemistry (Harrison-Meldola 2011 and Marlow 2010) and the European Biophysical Society Association (2017) and currently hold an ERC Starting Investigator Grant.
Research Interest
Professor Kukura lead an interdisciplinary research group that develops and applies new optical methodologies to study structure and dynamics down to nanometer length scales and femtosecond timescales. Their research is motivated by a vigorous back and forth between pushing the boundaries of what we can measure with light and the application of our developments to fundamental questions in chemistry, physics and biology.
Publications
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Musser AJ, Liebel M, Schnedermann C, Wende T, Kehoe TB, Rao A, Kukura P. Evidence for conical intersection dynamics mediating ultrafast singlet exciton fission. Nature Physics. 2015 Apr 1;11(4):352.
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Arroyo JO, Kukura P. Non-fluorescent schemes for single-molecule detection, imaging and spectroscopy. Nature Photonics. 2016 Jan 1;10(1):11.
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Liebel M, Kukura P. Lack of evidence for phase-only control of retinal photoisomerization in the strict one-photon limit.
