Group leader @ MPI for Polymer Research, Department of Molecular Spectroscopy
Arsh Hazrah earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics from the University of Alberta in 2018. He then pursued his PhD in physical chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Jäger at the University of Alberta, completing it in 2023. His doctoral research focused on the early stages of atmospheric aerosol nucleation, combining chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy with computational chemistry techniques. Following his PhD, Arsh joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Dr. Yuki Nagata and Prof. Mischa Bonn, where he employed heterodyne-detected vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy to investigate interfacial phenomena in aqueous systems. His postdoctoral work was supported by fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In 2024, he was promoted to Group Leader to further advance his research.