Elsa Yan
Professor
elsa.yan@yale.edu

Elsa Yan was born and grew up in Hong Kong, graduating from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Working with Kenneth Eisenthal on nonlinear optics and surface sciences, she obtained her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Then she was a postdoctoral fellow in Richard Mathies's lab at UC Berkeley and a visiting fellow in Thomas Sakmar's lab at the Rockefeller University. Subsequently, she joined The Rockefeller University as a postdoctoral associate. In 2007, she became an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Yale and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 and full professor in 2014.  

Curriculum Vitae

 
Ty Santiago
ty.santiago@yale.edu

Ty received his B.S. in chemistry from SUNY Potsdam where his undergraduate research studied the development of nano-carrier based delivery of chemotherapeutics using Raman spectroscopy. He went on to work in the lab of Dr. Luis Velarde using Doubly-Resonant Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy to study the vibronic properties of soft material interfaces. Now in the Yan Lab Ty studies the role of hydration in the secondary structure of biomolecules and the information it can provide about structural or morphological changes or binding events.

When Ty is not in the lab he likes to go hiking with his wife and dog, read manga, and challenge escape rooms.

 

 

 
Kristian Olesen
Ph.D. Chemistry 27
kristian.olesen@yale.edu

Kristian graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 2019 with a B.S. in Chemistry. After graduation, he was a research intern with Halliburton in Saudi Arabia and worked as a laboratory chemist in Germany. Now, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at Yale.

When not working, Kristian enjoys traveling, collecting minerals, and playing badminton.

 

 

 
Zhijie Wang (Steve)
Ph.D. Chemistry 28
zhijie.wang@yale.edu

Steve graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 2022 with a B.S. in chemistry where his undergraduate research studies the effect of Hofmeister ions on optical properties of rhodamine dyes. Now he is a Ph.D. student in Physical Chemistry at Yale.

When not in lab, Steve enjoys cooking, playing soccer and basketball.