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Chemical Sciences Division Director
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, BLDG 70A3307
Berkeley, CA 94720-8176
USA
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Bldg. 70A, Room 3307 |
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(510) 486-6382 |
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(510) 486-6033 |
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DMNeumark@lbl.gov |
Professor of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Chemistry
402 Latimer Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1460
USA
Chemical Physics Program
Education
Professor, Born 1955; B.A., M.A. Harvard
University, 1977; Ph. D., Physical Chemistry, University of
California, Berkeley, 1984; Postdoctoral Fellow, JILA, University
of Colorado, 1984-86; Office of Naval Research Young Investigator,
1987; National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator,
1987; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1989; Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Teacher-Scholar, 1991; Fellow, American Physical Society,
1993; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, 1994; Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist, 1997;
Miller Research Professor, 1999. Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, 2000; American Chemical Society Nobel
Laureate Signature Award (with Martin Zanni), 2000; Bomem-Michelson
Award, 2001, Chairman of the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry,
2001. Professor Neumark has served on the editorial advisory
boards of the Journal of Chemical Physics, the Journal of
Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters,
Molecular Physics, Accounts of Chemical Research, and PhysChemComm.
He has been the Director of the Chemical Sciences Division
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2000.
Research Interests
The spectroscopy and dynamics of transition
states, radicals, and clusters are investigated using frequency
and time-domain techniques. Our research focuses on three
areas in chemical dynamics and spectroscopy: (i) studies of
reaction dynamics through a combination of transition state
spectroscopy with state-resolved photodissociation experiments
on stable molecules and reactive free radicals, (ii) size-dependent
spectroscopy and dynamics of semiconductor clusters, and (iii)
the effect of clustering and solvation on fundamental chemical
processes. Novel experiments involving photodetachment of
negative ion beams have been developed to address several
of these issues. For example, the transition state spectroscopy
of isolated reactions and reactions in clusters is studied
by photodetachment and photoelectron spectroscopy of solvated
transition state precursor anions. Femtosecond time-resolved
photoelectron spectroscopy of negative ions is used to probe
the effects of clustering on photodissociation and vibrational
relaxation dynamics. We also perform experiments on neutral
beams, and have recently set up an experiment in which the
spectroscopy and dynamics of Rydberg states in doped helium
nanodroplets is investigated with photoionization and photoelectron
spectroscopy.
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