Bio | Eric Arsenault is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Yale University. He earned his B.A. in chemistry and in physics from Wesleyan University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with high honors. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, Eric was supported by the Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. His doctoral research was recognized at the 22nd International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, where he received the Best Student Paper Prize. Returning to the East Coast, he was a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows and a postdoctoral scientist at Columbia University. Now at Yale, Arsenault's research focuses on the behavior of energy and charge in complex nanoscale environments. To access this understanding for applications in advanced-generation optoelectronic and energy conversion platforms, his lab develops and applies tailored multidimensional spectroscopies spanning across spectral regimes.

Awards & Honors

Scialog Fellow, Quantum Matter and Information Initiative, 2025

Simons Society of Fellows - Junior Fellowship, 2022-2025

Best Paper Prize, 22nd International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, 2020

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2019-2021

Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study, 2017-2019

The Wallace C. Pringle Prize for Research in Chemistry, 2017

Karl van Dyke Prize, 2017

Martius Yellow Award in Chemistry, 2017

Siver Scholarship in Physics, 2017

Bio | Ryan McDonnell is a postdoc in the Arsenault laboratory at Yale. Ryan received his B.S. in chemistry from Temple University, where he investigated host-guest interactions in metal organic frameworks (MOFs) under cryogenic, ultra-high vacuum conditions in Prof. Eric Borguet’s laboratory. He received his master’s degrees in chemistry and physics, and a Ph.D. in chemistry, from Prof. John Wright’s laboratory as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in January 2026. As a graduate student in the Wright group, Ryan developed fully coherent multidimensional spectroscopies involving Raman and hyper-Raman transitions and applied them to molecular and materials systems. Ryan joined the Arsenault group in April 2026 and plans to develop ultrabroadband, multidimensional electronic and electronic-Raman spectroscopy to investigate electronic structure and reaction coordinates in molecular and materials systems alike.

Bio | Jaden graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.S. in chemistry and Certificates in physics and mathematics. As an undergraduate, he worked in the Wright group developing ultrafast instrumentation for coherent multidimensional spectroscopy. His current research interest is using new ultrafast techniques to probe exciton dynamics in quantum materials. 

Bio | Tiffany earned her B.S. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied gas-liquid interfacial dynamics utilizing molecular beam scattering from an aqueous flat liquid jet in Prof. Dan Neumark's lab. In her free time, she likes to play piano and bake. 

Bio | Richard is a first-year in Saybrook College double majoring in physics and electrical engineering and computer science. He is originally from Texas but now lives in Massachusetts. His current research interest is in moiré materials and devices. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, reading, trying new boba places, and learning languages.