My name is Dr. Soumyajit Mitra. I recently earned a PhD degree from Prof. Dwayne Miller’s group at the University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry. My research focused on developing ultrafast electron diffrac􀆟on (UED) and ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy setups. Scientifically, I studied the reaction mechanisms of ultrafast ring-closing and spin-crossover reactions, identifying the key reaction modes that drive the chemical transformation. Currently, as a postdoctoral research scholar, I am working on our UED experiments to observe nuclear reorganization during the ultrafast singlet fission process in single crystals, and trying to track exciton dynamics and polaron formation in novel quantum materials and how they interact with phonons via electron-phonon coupling, providing insights into the charge migration length scale.