Yisrael (Izzy) Lamb, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry Hall 140
970-247-7033
ylamb@fortlewis.edu

First gen

Areas of expertise:

  • Mechanistic organic photoredox catalysis
  • Photochemistry and photophysics
  • Radical chemistry

Education:

  • Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, 2021
  • B.A., Chemistry, Clark University, 2015

About Dr. Lamb

When students ask Izzy what kind of chemist he is, he’s not sure how to answer. After almost a decade as a researcher in the field of organic photoredox catalysis, he’s equally excited about ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopies, organic syntheses, catalysis, and nitty-gritty analytical measurements—perhaps just, a chemist then. He’s dedicated to bringing up the next generation of scientists and ensures that his research students have experience and knowledge fundamentals as well as cutting-edge chemistry that centers on radical reactions, energy and electron-transfer mechanisms, and “shooting lasers at things.” Students in the Lamb lab can gain experience with electrochemistry, transient-absorption spectroscopy, time-correlated single photon counting, organic synthesis, NMR spectroscopy, coding and kinetic simulations, and more. The Lamb lab collaborates with many other research groups as part of the NSF Center for Sustainable Photoredox Catalysis (SuPRCat), as well as the NSF Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program PEAQS. Students in the Lamb lab have presented their research at American Chemical Society and Materials Research Society conferences, annual SuPRCat meetings, and the CSU Stille Symposium. Izzy is also a co-mentor for the FLC SACNAS chapter with Dr. Joslynn Lee, and has brought students to multiple conferences. 

In the media

Selected publications