We are grateful for financial support of our research from the following sources:

Current Support

  • National Science Foundation (2024–2029)
    Project Title: National eXtreme Ultrafast Science (NeXUS) Operation & Maintenance
    Role: Principal Investigator and Director, (Co-PIs: Louis DiMauro, Jay Gupta, Roland Kawakami, and Claudia Turro)
    Award Amount: $11,913,132
  • Department of Energy (2023–2026)
    Project Title: Multimetallic Ligand-Coated Nanoparticles for Plasmon-Enhanced Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Award Amount: $354,864
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (MURI) (2023–2028)
    Project Title: Electron Spin Selectivity of Chiral Matter, From Molecules and Supramolecular Assemblies to Life
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: David Waldeck)
    Award Allocation to Baker: $650,246
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2023–2026)
    Project Title: Probing Spin Polarized Electron Dynamics in Magnetic Semiconductors: A New Platform for Spin Selective Photochemistry
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Award Amount: $507,922
  • National Science Foundation (2023–2026)
    Project Title: MRI: Acquisition of Helium Recovery Equipment for Time-Resolved ARPES at NSF NeXUS
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Roland Kawakami)
    Award Amount: $158,268
  • National Science Foundation (2022–2025)
    Project Title: CAS: Bridging Surface Chemistry and Photophysics to Understand Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction on Solar Photoanodes
    Role: Principal Investigator (Co-PI: Aravind Asthagiri)
    Award Amount: $585,000
  • National Science Foundation (2022–2025)
    Project Title: REU Site: Experimental and Computations Spectroscopy: Fundamental Probes of Molecules, Molecular Interactions, and Materials
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator (John Herbert)
    Award Amount: $452,599
  • National Science Foundation (2024–2026)
    Project Title: AccelNet-Design: Extreme Light in Intensity, Time, and Space (X-Lites), Cost Extension
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Louis DiMauro)
    Award Amount: $300,000
  • US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (2021–2025)
    Project Title: NSF-BSF Deciphering Molecule-Carbon Nanotube Interactions for Environmental Remediation Reactions
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Hailiang Wang)
    Award Allocation to Baker: $149,731
  • Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2020–2025)
    Project Title: Visualizing Charge and Spin Dynamics at Interfaces
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Award Amount: $100,000
  • National Science Foundation MRSEC (2020–2026)
    Project Title: Center for Emergent Materials: NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
    Role: Senior Investigator (PI: P. Chris Hammel)
    Award allocation to Baker: $416,970

Prior Support

  • National Science Foundation (2022–2024)
    Project Title: AccelNet-Design: Extreme Light in Intensity, Time, and Space (X-Lites)
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Louis DiMauro)
    Award Amount: $250,000
  • Department of Energy (2020–2024)
    Project Title: Chemical and Optical Control of Spin Crossover: Ultrafast XUV Spectroscopy of Molecular Magnets in Native Solvation Environments
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Award Amount: $551,255
  • National Science Foundation Mid-scale RI-1 (2019–2024)
    Project Title: Mid-scale RI-1 (M1:IP): NSF National eXtreme Ultrafast Science (NeXUS) Facility
    Role: Principal Investigator, (Co-PIs: Louis DiMauro, Jay Gupta, Roland Kawakami, and Claudia Turro)
    Award Amount: $10,484,658
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2019–2022)
    Project Title: Elucidating the Mechanism of Charge Transfer and Transport at Surfaces Using Ultrafast XUV Spectroscopy
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Award Amount: $450,000
  • National Science Foundation MRSEC Seed Grant (2019–2020)
    Project Title: Center for Emergent Materials Proto IRG-I
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Award Amount: $52,360
  • National Science Foundation Chemical Catalysis (2017–2020)
    Project Title: SusChEM: CO2 Photo-Electrochemistry on Metal Oxide Surfaces Studied by Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy and DFT
    Role: Principal Investigator (co-PI: Aravind Asthagiri)
    Award Amount: $449,541
  • National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (2016–2019)
    Project Title: Acquisition of X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer with Near Ambient Pressure and High Temperature Capabilities for Discovering New Material Phenomena with In Situ Studies
    Role: Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: Anne Co, David Cole, Gerald Frankel, and Umit Ozkan)
    Award Amount: $699,300
  • Department of Energy Early Career Award (2015–2021)
    Project Title: Probing Ion Solvation and Charge Transfer at Electrochemical Interfaces Using Nonlinear Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Award Amount: $760,000
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award (2015–2018)
    Project Title: Understanding the Mechanism of Catalytic Selectivity During Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Using Nonlinear Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Award Amount: $360,000