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Ohio State University

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5.04/23/2026

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Upul Ranaweera serves as Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at The Ohio State University at Newark. He earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati in 2012. His doctoral dissertation, "Photo-induced Nitrogen and Carbon Based Radicals: A study on triplet nitrenes, triplet 1,2 and 1,3-biradicals," explored the formation and reactivity of nitrogen- and carbon-based organic radicals under photo-induced conditions. Supervised by Bruce Ault and Anna Gudmundsdottir, the work utilized laser flash photolysis, time-resolved spectroscopy, matrix isolation, product analysis, and DFT computations to examine phenomena such as intramolecular sensitized triplet nitrene formation, efficient trans-cis isomerization through triplet 1,2-biradicals, photo-induced triplet 1,3-biradicals, and the behavior of carbon-based radicals, revealing intermediate lifetimes ranging from microseconds.