Welcome to the Fournier Lab!
We design and implement new techniques which combine the sensitivity and selectivity of mass spectrometry with the time resolution of ultrafast spectroscopies to capture and interrogate fast chemical reactions with molecular-level detail, offering new insight into reaction mechanisms that are too challenging to study with standard methods.
Recent Lab News
Our manuscript on measuring coherent vibrational dynamics and coherence transfer in an isolated peptide has been accepted to JACS!
Our manuscript on how microhydration affects the photophysical properties of photosensitizers is accepted by Int. J. Mass Spectrom. This was an exciting theory-experiment collaboration with Laura McCaslin and Ahren Jasper.
Our manuscript on excited-state proton transfer dynamics in 3-hydroxyflavone has been accepted by Chemical Communications!
Our manuscript on characterizing ion-receptor and ion-solvent interactions in halide-receptor complexes has been accepted by PCCP!
Jessika successfully defends her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Dean!
Our manuscript on the first 2D IR spectra of cryogenically cooled molecular ions has been accepted by JPC Letters!
Recent Publications
Ma, Z.; McCaslin, L.M.; Fournier, J.A. Coherent Vibrational Dynamics in an Isolated Peptide Captured with 2D IR. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025. 147. 9556.
Hasan, N.*; Davies, M.*; Word, M.; Ma, Z.; Jasper, A.W.; Fournier, J.A.; McCaslin, L.M. Environmental Photosensitizers Can Exhibit Enhanced Actinic Absorption in Microhydrated Clusters Compared to Solution. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 2025, 511, 117431.
Winkler, V.A.; Fournier, J.A. Characterizing excited-state intramolecular proton transfer in 3-hydroxyflavone with ultrafast transient infrared spectroscopy. Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 12147.
Dean, J.L.S.; Cramer, C.G.; Fournier, J.A. Interplay between Anion-Receptor and Anion-Solvent Interactions in Halide Receptor Complexes Characterized with Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopies. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26, 21163.
