• Royce Fellowship
Connor
Evans

Concentration 

Physics

Award Year 

2000

Conor plans to construct a complete quantum mechanical and geometrical characterization of a chemical reaction by combining the three complementary techniques of free jet spectroscopy, pump-probe electron diffraction and photoelectron spectroscopy.

Conor attended Harvard University and received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. In Xie’s lab, he worked to develop coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy as a biomedical imaging tool, and successfully demonstrated the first video-rate in vivo CARS imaging system. After his graduation, he became a research fellow studying under first Prof. Johannes de Boer and later Prof. Tayyaba Hasan at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine. It was here that he developed his interest in imaging cancer therapeutics, building a time-lapse optical coherence tomography system to study tumor treatment response. Selected to join the Wellman and Harvard Medical School faculty in 2010, Prof. Evans’s lab is now growing rapidly in pursuit of new therapeutic options for patients with advanced forms of cancer. Prof. Evans actively teaches at Harvard University, and will be running his favorite Physical Chemistry Laboratory class in the spring.