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Joseph Subotnik is a Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, affiliated with the Frick Laboratory. His research focuses on theoretical chemistry, particularly the flow of energy between light and matter, nonadiabatic dynamics, and spin physics. Key areas include surface hopping algorithms, electronic structure theory, electrochemistry, light-matter interactions, and spin-dependent phenomena like Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS). He leads the Subotnik Group, which develops novel computational methods for chemical dynamics and collaborates on experimental validations.
Notable honors include the APS Fellowship (2020), Guggenheim Fellowship (2016), and multiple early-career awards such as the Packard Fellowship and PECASE (both 2012). His work bridges quantum mechanics and classical dynamics, emphasizing energy conservation and thermodynamic principles. Recent projects involve modeling cavity quantum electrodynamics effects on molecular systems and exploring spintronics in chemical contexts.
Publications span high-impact journals like Science, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His research group actively addresses challenges in simulating electron transfer, molecular polaritons, and the interplay between nuclear motion and electronic states. Ongoing efforts include advancing phase-space formulations for electronic structure theory to better describe nonadiabatic phenomena.
