Candidates for the 2010 PHYS division election

These individuals were selected by the nomination committee following input from the division.� All have agreed to serve if elected.

Biographical sketches will be added when they are received.

Vice-chair elect:

Joel Bowman, Emory University

(http://www.chemistry.emory.edu/faculty/bowman/)

Joel M. Bowman received his A.B. degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969 and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1974, under the direction of Aron Kuppermann.� Bowman is currently the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Emory University, where he also served two terms as department chair.� His research interests are in theoretical and computational reaction dynamics, high-dimensional potential energy surfaces, molecular vibrations of clusters and polyatomic molecules.� He has published roughly 350 articles and book chapters and has given many invited lectures including several named lectures. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.� He was elected Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.� He has or is serving on editorial boards of the Journal of Chemical Physics, the Journal of Physical Chemistry, the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, and Spectrochimica Acta A, where he was just named Editor.� He has co-organized several symposia at National ACS Meetings, has been vice chair and chair of the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions meeting, and co-chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer.� He was an elected member of the Executive Committee, Division of Chemical Physics of the American Physical Society and also served on the board of the Telluride Summer Research Conferences.

Councilor (for re-election)

Paul W. Jagodzinski, Northern Arizona University

Alternate Councilors (replacing Gang-yu Liu and Veronica Vaida):

Rob Walker, Montana State

(http://www.chemistry.montana.edu/people/person.php?id=362)

Robert A. Walker received his B.A. degree cum laude (high honors in chemistry) from Dartmouth College in 1990 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995. Under the direction of Professor Jim Weisshaar, Dr. Walker’s graduate research coupled molecular beam spectroscopy and ab initio calculations to explore how steric and electronic effects controlled large amplitude motion in substituted toluene species. Dr. Walker worked for two years as a post-doctoral research associate in Professor Geraldine Richmond’s group at the University of Oregon, applying 2nd order nonlinear optical methods to study the vibrational structure of lipid monolayers adsorbed to liquid/liquid interfaces. In 1998, Dr. Walker accepted a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland College Park. He remained at Maryland for 11 years advancing to the rank of full professor in 2008. While at Maryland, Dr. Walker also served as the associate chair of the University’s degree granting Chemical Physics Program. In 2009 he moved to Montana State University in Bozeman, MT where he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry as a full professor. Dr. Walker’s current research interests focus on two distinct areas: 1) structure, organization and reactivity at liquid interfaces and 2) high-temperature surface chemistry on electrocatalytic and metal oxide surfaces. Research in the area of solution phase surface chemistry uses a suite of linear and surface-specific nonlinear spectroscopies to understand how solvation at interfaces differs from bulk solution limits. Studies of high temperature surface chemistry employ vibrational Raman scattering and traditional electrochemical techniques to identify mechanisms of electrochemical oxidation and material degradation in high temperature (~1000K) solid oxide fuel cells. Dr. Walker’s research awards include a National Science Foundation CAREER award, a Research Corporation Research Innovations award, a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and a Fast Track Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University (UK). Dr. Walker’s commitment to undergraduate education has also been recognized with the “University Outstanding Faculty Award” from the University of Maryland Parents’ Association and the University of Maryland’s “Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year” award.

Jianpeng Ma, Baylor College of Medicine

(http://sigler.bioch.bcm.tmc.edu/MaLab/)

Jianpeng Ma is a Lodwick T. Bolin Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine.� He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University.� In his doctoral research, he developed algorithms for global optimization.� In his postdoctoral research at Harvard University, he studied the dynamics of enzymes and supramolecular complexes such as molecular chaperonin GroEL.� In that period of time, Dr. Ma extensively collaborated with eminent experimental scientists such as Professor William N. Lipscomb and the late Professor Paul B. Sigler (Yale), and he was supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and National Institutes of Health (NIH).� Since moving to Houston in 2000, Dr. Ma and his research group have pioneered a series of novel multiscale computational methods for simulating, refining and modeling flexible biomolecular complexes.� For example, he developed a method that reliably computes complex dynamics without atomic coordinates, which enabled functional analysis and structure refinement of biomolecules studied by lower-resolution experimental techniques such as cryogenic electron microscopy.� His related methods also set a milestone in fiber diffraction refinement.� Other contributions include developing innovative empirical potentials and sampling algorithms for structure prediction.� Most importantly, by more accurately describing large-scale anisotropic molecular motions, Dr. Ma overcame a serious algorithmic bottleneck and substantially enhanced low-resolution X-ray structural models of supramolecular complexes and membrane proteins, of which the data are becoming ever more abundant.� In 2004, in recognition of his contributions to biophysics and structural biology, the Welch Foundation awarded Dr. Ma the highly prestigious Norman Hackerman Award.� In 2007, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).� In 2008, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.� Dr. Ma is also a recipient of the Michael E. DeBakey Excellence in Research Award.� He lives in Houston with his wife Dr. Qinghua Wang.� They have one son, Albert Z. Ma.

Members of the Executive Committee (replacing Vicki Grassian and David Sherrill):

Angela Wilson, University of North Texas

(http://www.chem.unt.edu/wilsongroup/people/akwilson.htm)

Dr. Angela Wilson is a Professor of Chemistry, Associated Faculty of Computer Science, and Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM),at the University of North Texas. She received her B.S. in 1990 from Eastern Washington University, Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Minnesota under the direction of the late Professor Jan Erik Alml�f, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Thom H. Dunning, Jr. at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She joined the faculty at UNT in 2000 where she leads a research group of 24 members. Dr. Wilson�s research focuses on the development and application of quantum mechanical methodologies.� ��

Dr. Wilson is an ACS Councilor, representing the Dallas-Fort Worth local section, and has been a member of the ACS Committee on Science, and is presently an elected member of the ACS Committee on Nominations & Elections. She is a National Associate of the National Academies, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry.� Honors include an NSF CAREER Award, the Wiley International Journal of Quantum Chemistry Young Investigator Award, and selection as a 2010 ACS Fellow. She was U.S. Chair of the 2006 Chinese-American Frontiers of Science Program, and currently serves on the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the Division of Computational Physics of the American Physical Society, Division of Physical and Biophysical Chemistry of IUPAC, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory User Advisory Board of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and International Scientific Advisory Board for the 2011 IUPAC Congress in Puerto Rico.�

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Frank Keutsch, University of Wisconsin- Madison (http://www.chem.wisc.edu/users/keutsch)

Frank Keutsch was born in T�bingen, Germany in 1971; he moved to Munich in 1991, where he obtained his Diplom at the Technische Universit�t M�nchen in 1997 with Vladimir Bondybey. He next moved to Berkeley where he obtained his Ph.D. in 2001 at the University of California-Berkeley, working in the group of Richard Saykally on high-resolution vibration-rotation-tunneling spectroscopy of water clusters. In 2001 Frank took a position as a research associate in the lab of James Anderson at Harvard were he pursued research in atmospheric chemistry using high-altitude airborne platforms. He moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 where he is currently Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Keutsch�s awards include the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Award Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry. He also had a fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and is a co-Editor for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. His research focuses on developing novel instrumentation for measurement of atmospherically important molecules and studying the chemistry of ozone and secondary organic aerosol formation. Measurements are performed in both controlled laboratory environments and ground and airborne field measurement campaigns. The goal is to evaluate and improve predictive models of atmospheric chemistry. Dr. Keutsch has over 30 scientific publications and more than 30 invited talks.

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