Dr. Jon P Camden

Professor
Department of Chemistry
Analytical/Physical Division
University of Notre Dame

B.S., University of Notre Dame (2000)
Ph.D., Stanford University (2005)
Post Doc, Northwestern University (2005 - 2008)

 

Jon Camden received his B.S. in chemistry and music from the University of Notre Dame in 2000, where he worked with Professor Dennis Jacobs studying the interactions of rare gas atoms with single crystal surfaces in ultra-high vacuum. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2005, under the direction of Professor Richard Zare. His work at Stanford, which was supported by a NSF Graduate Fellowship, focused on understanding the dynamics of chemical reactions using a combination of molecular beams, mass spectroscopy, and laser spectroscopy. He then completed postdoctoral work at Northwestern University under the direction of Professors George Schatz and Richard Van Duyne, where his research combined both theoretical calculations and experiments to understand the optical properties of nanoparticles and surface enhanced spectroscopies. He began his independent career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee in 2008, where he received an NSF CAREER award.  In 2014, he returned to the University of Notre Dame as an Associate Professor, was promoted to Professor in 2019, and has served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies since 2020.  Camden has received awards for excellence in teaching and research and was named a fellow of AAAS in 2022. His group’s research interests range from the optical properties of nanoparticles and ultrasensitive detection methods to explorations of nonlinear spectroscopy.