Rohit Bhargava
The Power List 2019 – 21-100 (A-Z)
Rohit Bhargava
Founder Professor of Engineering and Chemistry & Director of the Cancer Center, University of Illinois, USA.
The future: It’s an exciting time for optical chemical imaging via infrared and Raman vibrational spectroscopies. An abundance of new ideas, theoretical advances, instrument configurations and applications mean that the field is poised for unprecedented growth.
Research goal: To develop better chemical imaging technology from first principles-based theoretical analyses.
Nominator comment:“A pioneer of infrared spectroscopic imaging. He has provided numerous seminal studies, and continues to set the standard to this day.”