Garth J. Simpson

Garth Simpson earned his B.S. from Western Washington University in 1995 under Mark Bussell and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2000 under Kathy Rowlen, then completed an LSRF postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University with Richard Zare from 2000 to 2001. He joined Purdue University as an assistant professor of chemistry in 2001, was promoted to associate professor in 2006, and has been a full professor since 2011, working in analytical and physical chemistry. His group develops the theory and experimental applications of new instrumental methods built on nonlinear optical interactions, including harmonic generation microscopy for detecting and characterizing protein crystals to support protein function studies and rational drug design.