Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Recent Publications
Ajayakumar, L. P., Durden, D. J., Nandakumar Regeni, A., Xie, M., Gopidas, S., Hegde, S., Aldas, G., Haggard, K., & Backlund, M. P. (2026). Photoswitchable Radicals as Reporter Spins for Quantum Sensing with Spin Defects in Diamond. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 148(25), 26890-26899. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c09023
Backlund, M. P. (2026). Quantum and quantum-inspired optical and magnetic microscopy of molecules. In S. V. Polyakov, P. Derr, & Y. Kim (Eds.), Quantum Effects and Measurement Techniques in Biology and Biophotonics III Article 1387206 (Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 13872). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3080724
Dingilian, A. I., Kurella, A., Chamria, D., Mitchell, C. S., Dhruva, D., Durden, D. J., & Backlund, M. P. (2026). Quantifying classical and quantum bounds for resolving closely spaced, non-interacting, simultaneously emitting dipole sources in optical microscopy. Journal of Chemical Physics, 164(9), Article 094201. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0316287
Gillett, E., Chatterjee, S., Chatterjee, J., Kovalenko, N., Xu, C., Fan, D., Chen, Y., Qiu, Y., Miao, J., Nelavoy, V., Lew, M. D., Backlund, M. P., & Landes, C. F. (2026). Fused deep learning enables 6D single-molecule localization in polarization-resolved microscopy. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, 14(3), Article 035006. https://doi.org/10.1088/2050-6120/ae8eff
Mitchell, C. S., Dhruva, D., Burke, Z. P., Durden, D. J., Dingilian, A. I., & Backlund, M. P. (2026). Characterization of a new, quantum-inspired superresolution technique for high-NA fluorescence microscopy. In R. Erdmann, M. Heilemann, & F. Koberling (Eds.), Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging XIX Article 138580E (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13858). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3078106