Open positions are available for outstanding candidates with proven success in organic optoelectronics, energy storage, and measurement science. Please send an email to ricvazqu@iu.edu with any inquiries.
(April 18, 2025) Prof. Vázquez was the Keynote speaker at American Chemical Society Junior Technicak Meeting, ACS Puerto Rico Section. Close to 400 undergraduate students are giving oral presentations and graduate students are presenting posters.
(April 18, 2025) Dhari, Celeste, Chi-Tam, Bidisha, and Ruvinee participated in the 2026 Quantitative Chemical Biology (QCB) retreat, presenting poster on their most recent scientific upodates.
(April 15, 2025) Congratulations to Crystal Tran(undergraduate researcher) who is on her way to University of Calirofia-Santa Bárbara for Graduate school.
(January 5, 2026) We welcomed Dr. Jatan Sharma, our newest postdoc, to the BEAMS Lab!
(December 15, 2025) We welcomed Declan Mackay and Samuel Baker to the BEAMS lab as part of this year cohort of undergraduate student in the BEAMS lab!
(December 15, 2025) We welcomed Carlos G. Agosto to the BEAMS Lab as part of this year's cohort of graduate student in the BEAMS lab!
(October 24, 2025) Congratulations to Batul Shakir, our newest Ph.D. candidate, who passed her candidacy exam on Bioelectrosynthesis of Single-Component Flavin-Dependent Halogenase.
(October 23, 2025) Congratulations to Dhari Shah, our newest Ph.D. candidate, who passed her candidacy exam on using Time-Resolved Spectroscopy an Microscopy for Interrogating Membrane Biophysics.
(October 22, 2025) Congratulations to Oscar Medrano, our newest Ph.D. candidate, who passed his candidacy exam on developing new Self-Doped Conjugated Polyelectrolytes.
(September 27, 2025) We participated in the 2025 Turkey Runa Analytical Chemistry Conference. Congratulations to Megan Gunter, one of our undergraduates, for winning second place in the poster symposium.
(September 12, 2025) We received the NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA-R35) from NIGMS for the full amount. #NIHFunded Press Release
(August 22, 2025) We received a grant from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). #CTSIFunded
(August 14, 2025) We received a grant as part of the IU-led Multi-institutional Nanoscience Center Advancing Single-Particle Research center of chemical innovation (CCI). #NSFFunded #CCI Press Release
(August 7, 2025) P.I. Ricardo J. Vázquez Appointed to the 2025 JACS Au Early Career Advisory Board. Press Release
(June 15, 2025) Congratulations to Kingsley Bortey, our first Ph.D. candidate, who passed his candidacy exam on developing new charge-transfer materials with isoenergetic singlet-triplet manifolds.
(May 25, 2025) We welcomed Edward Hickey and Pamela Murillo to the BEAMS Lab as part of our REU experience.
(May 15, 2025) Congratulations to Crystal Tran (undergraduate researcher) who will join Seth Marder at University of Colorado, Boulder for an REU experience.
(April 15, 2025) Congratulations to Austin Tran (undergraduate researcher) who is on his way to UMich Ann Arbor for Graduate school.
(April 15, 2025) Congratulations to Conor Wallace (undergraduate researcher) who is on his way to Penn State for Graduate school.
(November 2, 2024) PI Vázquez and Professor Jesús Velázquez (UC Davis) co-organized a symposium at SACNAS entitled "Energy Materials for a Sustainable Future".
(September 26, 2024) We participated in the 2024 Turkey Run Analytical Chemistry Conference.
(August 20, 2024) We welcomed Connor Wallace and Megan Gunter to the BEAMS Lab as part of our second cohort of undergraduates.
(May 20, 2024) We welcomed Guillermo Narvaez-Lozano, Edward Hickey, and Yadielys Hernandez to the BEAMS Lab as part of our REU experience.
(December 22, 2023) We welcomed Austin Tran and Crystal Tran to the BEAMS Lab as part of our first cohort of undergraduates.
(December 20, 2023) We welcomed Oscar Medrano, Dhari Shah, and Batul Shakir, to the BEAMS Lab our group as part of the first cohort of graduate student! #TheFounders
(November 1, 2023) We welcomed Dr. Bisha Biswas, our first postdoc, to the BEAMS Lab!
