Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024-current)

Royal Society: Newton International Fellow, University of Cambridge (2022-2024)

Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Washington (2021)

B.S. in Physics, University of California Santa Barbara (2016)

Research Interests

My current research interests include measuring and modeling the photothermal response of light-absorbing nanoparticles and nanostructures (plasmonic or not) using refractive index perturbation-based microscopies and spectroscopies.

Publications

1. C. A. West, T. Yuan, T. Chatterjee, V. Lomonosov, J-H. Kim, E. Ringe, S. Link, Resolving Single-Particle Absorption and Scattering by Plasmonic Magnesium Nanoparticles, Nano Lett., 26, 14, 4774–4781 (2026).
2. J. Lin, K. Shiratori, C. A. West, A. Al-Zubeidi, Z. Jia, H. Oh, S. Link, C. F. Landes, Competition between Hot Carriers and Surface Electrochemistry in Gold Nanorod Dissolution, J. Phys. Chem. C,  129, 22, 10154–10162 (2025).
3. K. Shiratori, C. A. West, Z. Jia, S. A. Lee, E. A. Cook, C. J. Murphy, C. F. Landes, S. Link, Machine Learning to Adaptively Predict Gold Nanorod Sizes on Different Substrates, J. Phys. Chem. C, 129, 12, 5913–5920 (2025).
4. C. A. West, S. A. Lee, J. Shooter, E. Searles, H. J. Goldwyn, K. A. Willets, S. Link, and D. J. Masiello, Nonlinear effects in single-particle photothermal imaging, J. Chem. Phys. 158 (2) (2023).
5. S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, C. A. West, S. A. Lee, H. J. Goldwyn, C. R. Bilchak, Z. Fakhraai, K. A. Willets, S. Link, and D. J. Masiello, Wavelength-Dependent Photothermal Imaging Probes Nanoscale Temperature Differences among Subdiffraction Coupled Plasmonic Nanorods, Nano Lett. 21 (12) (2021).
6. U. Bhattacharjee, C. A. West, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, H. J. Goldwyn, X. Kong, Z. Hu, E. K. Beutler, W. Chang, K. A. Willets, S. Link, D. J. Masiello, Active Far-Field Control of the Thermal Near-Field via Plasmon Hybridization, ACS Nano 13 (8) (2019).