Claire A. West

Claire A. West is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024–present), previously holding a Royal Society: Newton International Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (2022–2024). Her research focuses on photothermal response of nanoparticles, plasmonics, and hot carrier dynamics, utilizing refractive index perturbation-based microscopies and spectroscopies.

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry (2024–current)
• University of Cambridge: Newton International Fellow (2022–2024)

Research Interests:
• Measuring and modeling photothermal response of light-absorbing nanoparticles
• Plasmon hybridization and decay dynamics
• Machine learning applications in nanomaterial analysis
• Surface electrochemistry and thermal near-field control

Scientific Awards:

• Royal Society: Newton International Fellow

Education:
• Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Washington (2021)
• B.S. in Physics, University of California Santa Barbara (2016)

Article Trends:
Her publications span plasmonics, nanotechnology, and machine learning, with recent work emphasizing hot carrier dynamics, gold nanorod dissolution, and adaptive modeling of nanoparticle morphology.

Laboratory Affiliation:
Member of the Link Research Group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, collaborating with the Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory.