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Dr. Ryszard Jankowiak |
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| Emeritus University Distinguished Professor Chemistry | |||
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ryszard@ksu.edu | ||
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CBC 429 | ||
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785-532-6785 (office) | |
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Biography |
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| 2022-Pres 2013-2022 2005-2013 2002-2005 1999-2005 1990-1998 1988-1989 1985-1987 1984-1985 1981-1984 1981 1981 1975-1981 1970-1974 |
Emeritus University Distinguished Professor University Distinguished Professor Professor Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University Senior Scientist, Ames Laboratory USDOE, Iowa State University Scientist, Ames Laboratory USDOE, Iowa State University Associate Scientist, Ames Laboratory USDOE, Iowa State University Postdoctoral Fellow, Ames Laboratory USDOE, Iowa State University Associate Professor at Philipps University, Marburg, Germany Postdoctoral Fellow, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Camerino University, Camerino, Italy Assistant Professor, Technical University, Institute of Physics, Gdañsk, Poland Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, Technical University of Gdańsk, Poland M.S. in Physics, Adam Michiewicz University ( Poznan, Poland) |
Research Overview
Energy and electron transfer in natural and artificial photosynthetic complexes at low temperatures and high pressures; hole-burning spectroscopy and structural disorder in glasses, polymers, and proteins; photovoltaic devices; single photosynthetic complex spectroscopy; chemical carcinogenesis; carcinogen metabolism and DNA damage; monoclonal antibody-hapten interactions; and laser-based bioanalytical spectroscopies.
Selected Publications
- Site-Energies of Active and Inactive Pheophytins in the Reaction Center of Photosystem II from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii K. Acharya, B. Neupane, R. Picorel, M. Seibert, and R. Jankowiak, J. Phys. Chem. B 2012, dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp3007624
- Electron Transfer in the Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Reaction Center Containing Zn-Bacteriochlorophylls (Zn-RC) and its β-Zn-RC Mutant: Hole Burning Study, B. Neupane, P. Jaschke, T. Beatty, and R. Jankowiak, J. Phys. Chem. B 2012, 116, 3457-3466.
- Effects of the Distributions of Energy Transfer Rates on Spectral Hole Burning in Pigment-Protein Complexes at Low Temperatures, N. Herascu, S. Ahmouda, R. Picorel, M. Seibert, R. Jankowiak and V. Zazubovich, J. Phys. Chem. B 2011, 115, 15098-15109.
- Spectroscopic Study of CP43 Complex and PSI-CP43 Supercomplex of the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803, X. Feng, B. Neupane, K. Acharya, M. Rafael, V. Zazubovich, and R. Jankowiak,J. Phys. Chem. B 2011, 115, 13339-13349.
- Low Temperature Frequency Domain Study of Excitation Energy Transfer in Ethynyl-linked Chlorophyll-trefoils and Aggregates, B. Neupane, N. C. Dang, R. F. Kelley, M. R. Wasielewski, and R. Jankowiak, J. Phys. Chem. B 2011, 115, 10391-10399.