Biography:Munira Khalil
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) |
Munira Khalil is an American chemist who is the Leon C. Johnson Professor of Chemistry and department chair at the University of Washington.
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
In 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
- 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
References
- ↑ "Femtosecond Coherent Multidimensional Vibronic Spectroscopy" (in de). https://www.mpsd.mpg.de/events/27580/500135.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Munira Khalil". http://www.nasonline.org/programs/kavli-frontiers-of-science/frontiers-alumni/alumni-directory/munira-khalil.html.
- ↑ "Role of solvent molecules in light-driven electron transfer revealed" (in en). https://www.washington.edu/news/2021/03/12/solvent-electron-transfer/.
- ↑ "Munira Khalil named next Chair of the Department of Chemistry | Department of Chemistry | University of Washington". https://chem.washington.edu/news/2020/06/30/munira-khalil-named-next-chair-department-chemistry.
- ↑ "UW Dept. of Chemistry - News & Events". http://www.cbprcurriculum.info/chem/newsevents.html.
- ↑ "Khalil, Munira" (in en-US). https://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/fellowship-directory/khalil-munira/.
- ↑ "Distinguished Young Scientists Selected to Participate in Kavli…". 18 October 2011. https://kavlifoundation.org/news/nas-2011-kavli-frontiers-science-symposia-announcement.
- ↑ "Munira Khalil, Shwetak Patel, and Bo Zhang were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships" (in en-us). https://www.washington.edu/research/announcements/munira-khalil-shwetak-patel-and-bo-zhang-were-awarded-sloan-research-fellowships/.
- ↑ "Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program". 2018. https://www.dreyfus.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/camille-past.pdf.
- ↑ "Archives" (in en). 6 January 2021. http://phys-acs.org/archives/.
- ↑ "Munira Khalil elected as APS Fellow | Department of Chemistry | University of Washington". https://chem.washington.edu/news/2017/11/02/munira-khalil-elected-aps-fellow.
- ↑ "20 UW researchers elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021" (in en). https://www.washington.edu/news/2021/07/16/wsas-2021/.
- ↑ "Women Win Three of the Four Investigator Awards From the Brown Science Foundation". 2022-06-30. https://www.wiareport.com/2022/06/women-win-three-of-the-four-investigator-awards-from-the-brown-science-foundation/.
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