Bryan Kudisch, Ph.D.

B.A. in Chemical Physics, Columbia University, 2015

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Princeton University, 2020

Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University, 2020-2023

Assistant Professor, Florida State University, 2023-

Email: kudisch@chem.fsu.edu

Bryan grew up just north of the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas, where he spent his childhood surrounded by his large, loving immigrant family with weather that rarely dipped below 40 °F. After completing his B.A. at Columbia University, Bryan joined Professor Greg Scholes’s group at Princeton University’s Department of Chemistry, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. In the Scholes group, Bryan undertook a diverse range of projects, such as designing and building a 10-femtosecond ultrafast laser spectrometer starting from an empty laser table, studying photoinduced electron transfer dynamics in model systems, disentangling the mechanisms of organometallic and photoenzymatic photoredox transformations, and championing techniques in ultrafast high magnetic field spectroscopy.

Bryan completed his Ph.D. in August 2020 and braved the cold Boston weather as a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Professor Dan Nocera in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. His involvement in the Nocera lab once again spanned nearly its entire spectrum, demonstrating the centrality and utility of time-resolved spectroscopy in gaining unprecedented mechanistic insight into catalysis. His own projects centered on investigating surprising photophysical and photochemical properties of a number of organic photoreagents and transition metal complexes with emergent ultrafast dynamics.

Bryan started his independent career in August 2023 at Florida State University, where his group is focused on developing and applying bleeding-edge spectroscopic tools to novel photoreagents and photochemical reactions. He has already mentored more than a dozen students at various levels prior to his independent research career, and he hopes to cultivate a research group that prioritizes scientific discovery and a healthy, people-first research environment.