| Asst Prof Tan Howe Siang
Assistant Professor
Division of Chemistry & Biological Chemistry
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
College of Science
Email: HOWESIANG@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)63162987
Office: SPMS-CBC-03-06 |
| Education |
- PhD(Chem) Princeton University 2003
- MA Princeton University 1999
- BSc(Chem)(Hons) National University of Singapore 1997
- BSc National University of Singapore 1996
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| Biography |
1997 B.Sc.(Hon.) , National University of Singapore (NUS)
1999 M.A., Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
2003 Ph.D., Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
1997 - 1998 Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
1998 - 2003 Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
2003 - 2005 Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, California, USA
2005 - Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Research Interests |
Ultrafast nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy of water molecules in nanoscopically confined environment, especially in systems of biological and chemical interest
Development of multi-dimensional optical spectroscopy
Ultrafast optical pulse shaping and its applications in spectroscopy |
| Research Grant |
- A*STAR - Hungary National Office for Research and Technology Joint Grant Call (2011-)
- A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council - Public Sector Funding (2012-)
- Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (2008-)
- Defence Science Organisation National Laboratories (2008-)
- MERLION (2012-)
- NTU-JSPS Joint Research Project (2009-)
- Start Up Grant (2005-)
- Supplementary Equipment Purchase (2006-) [by MOE]
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| Current Projects |
- Antimicrobial Materials Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria: Design, Spectroscopic Characterization and Computational Modelling
- Joint approach to ultra selective and ultra sensitive real-time molecule trace detection
- Optimization and Control of Nonlinear Optical Processes of Nanostructures Using Ultrafast Optical Pulse Shaping
- Regulatory Mechanisms in Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Antennae Studied by Advanced Optical Spectroscopic Methods
- Toward Efficient Sunlight Harvesting
- Ultrafast Mid Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy of Nanoscopic Water in Biological Systems
| Selected Publications | - Marco Thomas Seidel, Suxia Yan, and Howe-Siang Tan. (2010). Mid-Infrared Polarization Pulse Shaping by Parametric Transfer. Optics Letters, 35(4), 478-480.
- S. Yan, H.-S. Tan. (2009). Phase cycling schemes for two-dimensional optical spectroscopy with a pump-probe beam geometry. Chemical physics, 360(1-3), 110-115.
- H.S. Tan. (2008). Theory and Phase Cycling Scheme Selection Principles of Collinear Phase Coherent Multi-dimensional Optical Spectroscopy. Journal of Chemical Physics, 129, 124501.
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