SHIZUKA HSIEH

Phone: 413-585-4495

Building: Clark Science Center

E-mail: shsieh@email.smith.edu

Professor Hsieh’s research focuses on gas-phase reactions and utilizes laser spectroscopy to address fundamental questions of photochemistry and reaction dynamics. One project pertains to the photochemistry of atmospheric hydroperoxides in the visible and near IR-spectral regions, with the goals of measuring absorption cross sections and describing the fate of highly vibrationally excited molecules. A second investigation is of the photochemical and bimolecular reactions of ethylene oxide similar cyclic molecules that present interesting questions about sequential bond breakage in the course of chemical reactions.

Courses

Environmental Chemistry
Atmospheric Chemistry