Draft:Jonathan Hood (chemist)

Jonathan D. Hood
Nationality	American
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology (Ph.D.), Harvard University (postdoctoral research)
Awards	NSF CAREER Award (2023)
Scientific career
Fields	Physical chemistry; Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Institutions	Purdue University
Doctoral advisor	Jeff Kimble
Other academic advisors	Kang‑Kuen Ni

Jonathan D. Hood is an American physical chemist and physicist, and an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. His research focuses on the assembly and control of ultracold molecules for quantum information science and on generating quantum light from cryogenic organic molecules. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

Early life and education

Hood completed his Ph.D. in physics under the supervision of Jeff Kimble at the California Institute of Technology. He then carried out postdoctoral research with Kang‑Kuen Ni at Harvard University. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

Career

In January 2020, Hood joined Purdue University as an assistant professor of chemistry and of physics and astronomy, where he leads the Hood Lab at Purdue. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}

Research

Hood’s group pursues two complementary projects:

1. **Ultracold molecules in optical tweezers**: assembling LiCs molecules one atom at a time, cooling them to the motional ground state of individual tweezers, then coherently transferring them into deeply bound quantum states for applications in quantum simulation and quantum information processing.
2. **Quantum photonics with organic molecules**: embedding dibenzoterrylene (DBT) molecules in an anthracene crystal at cryogenic temperatures, tuning their emission into resonance and integrating them with nanophotonic devices to produce indistinguishable single photons for quantum sensing and communication. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}

Awards and honors

• **NSF CAREER Award**, National Science Foundation (2023) :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}

Selected publications

• A. Goban, C.‑L. Hung, J. D. Hood, _et al._, “Superradiance for atoms trapped along a photonic crystal waveguide”, Physical Review Letters, 115 (6): 063601 (2015). :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}
• J. D. Hood, A. Goban, A. Asenjo‑Garcia, _et al._, “Atom–atom interactions around the band edge of a photonic crystal waveguide”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (2016). :contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}
• L. R. Liu, J. D. Hood, Y. Yu, _et al._, “Building one molecule from a reservoir of two atoms”, Science, 360 (6391): 900–903 (2018). :contentReference[oaicite:7]{index=7}

External links

• Hood Lab homepage
• Purdue chemistry profile
• Google Scholar
• ORCID