By Wendy Plump
Department of Chemistry
From the 30K-foot level, Katerina Kanevche moved effortlessly from graduate student to postdoc to leader on a project whose goal is a novel imaging and molecular identification instrument that could transform the field of microscopy. In reality, she painstakingly acquired experience in a technique called tip-enhanced spectroscopy (TES), gaining skills that landed her among an elite group of practitioners around the world.
And while the opportunity to lead the project at Princeton Chemistry fell into her lap when a former researcher departed the program, her appointment has all the earmarks of an outcome that was meant to be.