Sigifredo Luna Jr.

Sigifredo (Freddy) Luna is a Ph.D. candidate in Masha Kamenetska’s Single Molecule spectroscopy Lab here at Boston University. Luna received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Utah Tech University. Within the Kamenetska group, he work in a subgroup that studies nanotechnology from a molecular device perspective by measuring the conductance of single molecules in metal-molecule-metal junctions using break junction techniques. He has also been trained to perform Density functional non-equilibrium Green’s function (DFT-NEGF) calculations to model these nano-junctions and simulate their electrical charge transport properties. In his research, he integrates measurements of single-molecule conductances using the Scanning Tunneling Microscope Break Junction (STMBJ) technique and perform DFT calculations to obtain predicted transport properties, aiming to uncover the charge transport mechanisms in a diverse set of chemical systems at the single-molecule level.