Tamar Seideman
Tamar Seideman (born November 26, 1959 in Gezer ( Israel )) is an Israeli chemist and professor at Northwestern University in Illinois ( USA ). Her main research interests are in the areas of quantum transport, molecular electronics and nanochemistry .
Career
Seideman studied chemistry at Tel Aviv University . She did her PhD in 1989 at the Weizmann Institute of Science under Moshe Shapiro on the quantum theory of laser catalysis. She then moved to the University of California at Berkeley as a Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow and Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow , where she worked with William H. Miller on theoretical chemistry. In 1992 she moved to the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View (USA) as a Principal Investigator . A year later she moved to the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. At the same time, she was appointed professor at Queen's University in Kingston from 1996 to 2003 .
From 2003 she became a professor of chemistry at Northwestern University . In the following year, she was also appointed professor of physics. Since 2014 she has been the Dow Chemical Company Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Northwestern University.
research
Seideman applies quantum mechanical methods and chemoinformatics to understand the stress-induced dynamics in molecular electronic devices. She is interested in both electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom and studies electron transport using scattering spectroscopy. Seideman has investigated coherent control , which can be used in semiconductor technologies as well as in molecular gas phase dynamics and in biology. She also demonstrated that one can guide light using arrays of nanoparticles to create custom nanoplasmonics. This included laser alignment, which can give molecular layers a "long-range" orientation order. In dense molecular arrangements, this alignment can become a collective phenomenon with “long-range” translation and orientation. In polyatomic molecules, this alignment can be used to control torsional motions that can affect charge transfer in solutions and in solids. Seideman's theory is that this coherent control can be used to power molecular machines . In addition, she showed that it is possible to use a scanning tunneling microscope to control surface reactions.
Her recent work has developed theoretical and computational models to control the properties of electronic devices on the nano scale. This involved studying charge transport through materials in the molecular and nano range to improve the efficiency of solar cells. To understand the mechanisms of charge transport, she studied optically induced tunneling through these materials.
Awards
- 2015–2018 Weston Professorship at the Weizmann Institute of Sciences in Israel
- 2013 Mildred Dresselhaus Award for Senior Scientists
- 2011 member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2011 Sackler Award
- 2011 Weizmann Institute Visiting Professor Fellowship, Rehovot, Israel
- 2008 Distinguished Lecturer, Windsor University, Canada
- 2007–2009 Weston Professorship
- 2004–2008 research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Tamar Seideman, Moshe Shapiro: Laser catalysis and transition state spectra of the H + H exchange reaction . In: The Journal of Chemical Physics . tape 88 , no. 9 May 1988, pp. 5525 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.454564 .
- ^ Tamar Seideman, Jeffrey L. Krause, Moshe Shapiro: Quantum theory of laser catalysis in one and three dimensions . In: Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society . tape 91 , 1991, pp. 271 , doi : 10.1039 / DC9919100271 .
- ↑ ::: Miller Research Group :::. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
- ^ Members. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seideman, Tamar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli chemist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gezer (Israel) |