Shizuka Hsieh

Associate Professor of Chemistry
Smith College

Office: 011 Ford Hall
Phone: (413)-585-4262
Fax: (413)-585-3786
Email: shsieh(at)email.smith.edu

EDUCATION

D.Phil., Oxford University, Physical Chemistry
Advisor, John H.D. Eland

B.A., Carleton College, Chemistry
Advisor, Tricia A. Ferrett

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Smith College, 2008-present 
Associate Professor of Chemistry

University of Maryland, College Park, 2006-2007
Visiting Scientist with Amy S. Mullin

Smith College, 2001-2008
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Oberlin College, 2000-2001
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1997-2000
Postdoctoral Researcher with F. Fleming Crim

COURSES

CHM 108: Environmental Chemistry
CHM 111: Introduction to Chemistry I
CHM 224: General Chemistry, IV
CHM 331: Physical Chemistry I: Quantum Chemistry and Statistical Mechanics
CHM 332: Physical Chemistry II: Thermodynamics and Kinetics

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Laser spectroscopy and molecular reaction dynamics. My broad interests are in the dynamics of molecular processes, with the aim of describing chemical events at the level of atomic motions. Because the most detail can be obtained for reactions of isolated molecules, the focus of my research has been the dissociation of excited state molecules and ions in the gas phase. More recently my lab uses spectroscopic and computational methods to characterize the atomic motions in highly-vibrationally excited molecules and to monitor their dissociation to form radical products. We target measurements that are necessary for determining how these molecules behave in the atmosphere. 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Closser, K.D.*, Vogelhuber, K.M.*; Hsieh, S., "Vibrational-torsional excitation and direct overtone photodissociation of ethyl hydroperoxide at 5v_OH," J. Phys. Chem. A, 2008, 112, 1238. 

Haynes, L.M.*; Vogelhuber, K.M.*; Pippen, J.L.*; Hsieh, S., "Effects of torsion on O-H stretch overtone spectra and direct overtone photolysis of methyl hydroperoxide," J. Chem. Phys., 2005, 123, 234306. 

Homitsky, S.C.*; Dragulin, S.M.*; Haynes, L.M.*; Hsieh, S., "O-H Stretch overtone excitation in methyl and ethyl hydroperoxides," J. Phys. Chem. A, 2004, 108, 9492.

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