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Special Seminar
 
Name: Dr. Madhur Srivastava
Affiliation: Assistant Research Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
 Title: Advances in Electron Spin Resonance Technology and its Applications
Date & Time: Thursday, 06th February 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
    Venue: Rajarshi Bhattacharya Memorial Lecture Hall, Chemical Sciences Building
Abstract:
 

In recent years, Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) has become an essential technology to study organic and inorganic materials as well as proteins. This is due ESR’s unique ability to study paramagnetic species at various environments and at low concentrations. More importantly, it provides localized interaction that leads to precise information and quantification. This talk will focus on modern methods of ESR and their applications in biomedical and materials research. It will discuss instrumentation technologies (continuous wave and pulse ESR, and 2D ESR), computational methods (data processing and simulations), and latest studies in protein dynamics, catalytic reactions, carbon capturing, and clinical diagnosis.

Biography: Dr. Madhur Srivastava is currently an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Chemical and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. He is also a Co-Director of the National Biomedical Resource for Advanced ESR Spectroscopy (ACERT), a NIH-funded center. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University, M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University and B.Tech. in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna, MP, India. He is a recipient of NIGMS Outstanding Investigator Award (2023) and a finalist of NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (2019). He is an expert in ESR spectroscopy and signal processing. His current research projects include high frequency ESR, ESR-on-Chip, simulation-independent spectral analysis, and clinical detection of ALS neurological disease.