Yujie Zhao awarded the 2025 Bruker Thesis Prize
Bruker Thesis Prize awarded annually by the ESR Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Bruker Corporation.
Dr. Yujie Zhao, a postdoc in Professor Robert Griffin‘s group, has been awarded the 2025 Bruker Thesis Prize for her outstanding work in the field of ESR Spectroscopy.
Zhao’s work in the Griffin group aims to push advanced DNP to higher fields and apply the technique to biological and material samples.
The judging panel noted the breadth of the thesis, “Methodology development of high sensitivity pulsed EPR and DNP,” with one reviewer describing her work as: “An excellent example of a thorough investigation of DNP and ENDOR using high frequency EPR with timely and relevant insights and conclusions for both EPR and solid-state DNP NMR from the design and building of hardware, experimental implementation, theory, simulation and experiment and application to a contemporary research area.”
Zhao will deliver a prize lecture at the 58th Annual International Meeting of the RSC ESR spectroscopy group, in London, June 1-5, 2025.
Since 1986 Bruker BioSpin has generously sponsored an annual lectureship and prize, given to a scientist who has made a major contribution to the application of ESR spectroscopy in chemical or biological systems.
