Vartkess Ara Apkarian

Vartkess Ara Apkarian (born 1955) is an Armenian-American physical chemist and a Professor of Chemistry at The University of California, Irvine.[1]

Career

He is the Director of Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit, a National Science Foundation Center for Chemical Innovation. He graduated from University of Southern California with B.S. degrees in Chemistry followed by Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Northwestern University. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, he joined the University of California as Chemistry faculty in 1983. He served as the Chair of the Chemistry Department (2004-2007) at UC Irvine.

He is a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, and a Fellow of American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. His teaching and research has been recognized with awards including the Humboldt Prize (1996), USC Distinguished Alumnus (2007), Charles Bennett Service Through Chemistry Award of ACS (2008) ACS Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry (2014), Honorary Doctorate from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2016).[2]

His recent scientific contributions include creating a single-molecule sensor[3][4] and developing tools to confine the light to atomic dimensions.[5][6] His team visualized the internal structure of single molecules and imaging the normal vibrational modes of single molecules.[3][7][8]

References

  1. ^ "Department Seminar: Professor Vartkess "Ara" Apkarian". Department of Chemistry. February 5, 2018.
  2. ^ "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". faculty.uci.edu. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
  3. ^ a b Apkarian, V. Ara; Jensen, Lasse; Chen, Xing; Tallarida, Nicholas; Lee, Joonhee (June 1, 2018). "Microscopy with a single-molecule scanning electrometer". Science Advances. 4 (6) eaat5472. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aat5472. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 6025905. PMID 29963637.
  4. ^ Yampolsky, Steven; Fishman, Dmitry A.; Dey, Shirshendu; Hulkko, Eero; Banik, Mayukh; Potma, Eric O.; Apkarian, Vartkess A. (August 2014). "Seeing a single molecule vibrate through time-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering". Nature Photonics. 8 (8): 650–656. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.143. ISSN 1749-4893.
  5. ^ Lee, Joonhee; Tallarida, Nicholas; Chen, Xing; Liu, Pengchong; Jensen, Lasse; Apkarian, Vartkess Ara (November 28, 2017). "Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectromicroscopy of Co(II)-Tetraphenylporphyrin on Au(111): Toward the Chemists' Microscope". ACS Nano. 11 (11): 11466–11474. doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b06183. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 28976729.
  6. ^ Yao, Rongyue; Zhao, Shihang; Zhang, Yuan; Zheng, Changlin; Wang, Luxia (January 9, 2025). "Plexcitons in Bowtie Nanocavities–Quantum Dots Systems Studied by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129 (1): 428–435. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c02606. ISSN 1932-7447.
  7. ^ "UCI scientists are first to observe and image all-important molecular vibrations". UC Irvine News. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
  8. ^ Apkarian, V. Ara; Nicholas Tallarida; Crampton, Kevin T.; Lee, Joonhee (April 2019). "Visualizing vibrational normal modes of a single molecule with atomically confined light". Nature. 568 (7750): 78–82. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1059-9. ISSN 1476-4687.
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