Mahsa Zarei, a PhD student in Professor Ed Grant's group, has been awarded the prestigious SAS Graduate Student Award, also known as the Barbara Stull Graduate Student Award. This award is given to up to two graduate students in recognition of outstanding research in the area of spectroscopy.
Zarei has developed innovative Raman-based strategies that transform notoriously noisy spectra into reliable quantitative insights. She co-designed a dual-laser Shifted-Excitation Raman Difference Spectroscopy (SERDS) platform, incorporating a common-mode-rejection (CMR) algorithm that significantly reduces fluorescence interference. This advancement has decreased soil-carbon prediction errors by nearly one-third across a 900-sample North American dataset.
Read more about Mahsa's work here.
Congratulations Mahsa!