Munira Khalil is an American chemist who is the Leon C. Johnson Professor of Chemistry and department chair at the University of Washington.
Munira Khalil | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colgate University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
| Thesis | A tale of coupled vibrations in solution told by coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2004) |
Early life and education
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Khalil attended Colgate University, where she majored in chemistry and English and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for doctoral research, where she developed coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to study the molecular structure of coupled vibrations on a picosecond timescale. Khalil moved to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher, where she was made a Miller Fellow.
Research and career
editIn 2007, Khalili joined the University of Washington. Her research makes use of ultrafast spectroscopies to understand the structural dynamics of molecules.[1] Photoinduced charge transfer depends on an interplay between atomic and electronic processes on multi-dimensional energy surfaces.[2] She develops 3D electronic-vibrational femtosecond spectroscopies to understand vibrational and electronics motions on femtosecond timescales.[2] In particular, she is interested in how solvents (e.g. water in photosynthesis) impact the electron transfer processes.[3]
Khalil was made chair of the department of chemistry in 2020.[4]
Awards and honors
edit- 2007 Dreyfus New Faculty Award[5]
- 2008 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering[6]
- 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER Award[citation needed]
- 2011 Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium[7]
- 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship[8]
- 2013 Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award[9]
- 2014 Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship[10]
- 2011 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow[2]
- 2017 American Physical Society Fellow[11]
- 2021 Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences[12]
- 2022 Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Brown Investigator Awards[13]
Selected publications
edit- Khalil M; Demirdöven N; Tokmakoff A (30 January 2003). "Obtaining absorptive line shapes in two-dimensional infrared vibrational correlation spectra". Physical Review Letters. 90 (4): 047401. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.90.047401. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 12570457. Wikidata Q78896659.
- Golonzka O; Khalil M; Demirdöven N; Tokmakoff A (1 March 2001). "Vibrational anharmonicities revealed by coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy". Physical Review Letters. 86 (10): 2154–2157. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.86.2154. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 11289878. Wikidata Q73717457.
- Nurettin Demirdöven; Christopher M Cheatum; Hoi Sung Chung; Munira Khalil; Jasper Knoester; Andrei Tokmakoff (1 June 2004). "Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of antiparallel beta-sheet secondary structure". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 126 (25): 7981–7990. doi:10.1021/JA049811J. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 15212548. Wikidata Q34328559.
References
edit- ^ "Femtosecond Coherent Multidimensional Vibronic Spectroscopy". www.mpsd.mpg.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ a b c "Munira Khalil". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "Role of solvent molecules in light-driven electron transfer revealed". UW News. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "Munira Khalil named next Chair of the Department of Chemistry | Department of Chemistry | University of Washington". chem.washington.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "UW Dept. of Chemistry - News & Events". www.cbprcurriculum.info. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "Khalil, Munira". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "Distinguished Young Scientists Selected to Participate in Kavli…". Kavli Foundation. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "Munira Khalil, Shwetak Patel, and Bo Zhang were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships". UW Research. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program" (PDF). 2018.
- ^ "Archives". ACS Technical Division. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "Munira Khalil elected as APS Fellow | Department of Chemistry | University of Washington". chem.washington.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "20 UW researchers elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021". UW News. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ "Women Win Three of the Four Investigator Awards From the Brown Science Foundation". Women In Academia Report. 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2022-08-17.