Continetti Group

Professor Robert E. Continetti

Education

• B.A., Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 1983
  Graduated with Departmental and General Honors
• Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1989
  Thesis Advisor: Professor Yuan T. Lee
  Thesis Title: Vibrational State-Resolved Differential Cross Sections for the Reaction D+H₂ → DH + H.
• Postdoctoral Research, University of California, Berkeley, 1989-1992
  Advisor: Professor Daniel M. Neumark

Career

• Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 1992-1997
• Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 1997-1999
• Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 1999-2015
• Visiting Scientist, Combustion Research Facility, Sandia Nat'l Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 2000
• Professore Visitatore, University of Rome "La Sapienza," 2000
• Kurt Shuler Scholar in Physical Chemistry, 2006-2011
• Department Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 2006-2012
• Wilsmore Fellow, University of Melbourne, 2012
• Professore Visitatore, University of Rome "La Sapienza," 2013
• Chair (elected), San Diego Division of Academic Senate, 2015-2016
• Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego, 2015
• Aarhus University Faculty Fellow, 2017

Honors and Awards

• UC Berkeley Chemistry Department Fellowship, 1983-1984
• Amoco Graduate Fellow, U.C. Berkeley, 1988-1989
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1989
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, 1992
• UCSD Chancellor's Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1993
• David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 1994-1999
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1996-2001
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1997-1999
• Warren College Outstanding Teacher Award, 1997
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 2000
• UCSD Diversity Champion Award, 2012
• ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Experimental Chemistry 2012

Dr. Jemma Gibbard

Education

• M. Chem., University of Oxford, 2011
  Ph.D. University of Oxford, 2015

Career

• Post Doctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego, Continetti Research Group, 2016-present

Dr. Dao-Ling Huang

Education

• B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, 2010
  Ph.D. Brown University, 2016
  Thesis Title: Vibrational state-selective autodetachment photoelectron spectroscopy of dipole-bound states of cold anions

Career

• Post Doctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego, Continetti and Xiong Research Groups, 2017-present

 
Visiting Scientists
 

Past Post Docs

• Dr. Brian Adamson (2015 - 2017), Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
• Dr. Rico Otto (2011 - 2015), Illumina Corporation
• Dr. Berwyck Poad (2010 - 2012), Queensland Institute of Technology
• Dr. Silvia De Dea (2008), Cymer, Inc.
• Dr. Qichi Hu, (2005-2008), Anasys Instruments corp., Santa Barbara, CA
• Dr. Daniel Luhrs, Solvias AG, Basel, Switzerland
• Dr. Toby Hain (2000 - 2001), Patent Law, Cantor Colburn LLP, Hartford, CT
• Dr. Andreas Rohrbacher (1999 - 2000), Time-Bandwidth, Inc., Switzerland
• Dr. Hans-Juergen Deyerl (1999-2001), Chemistry Teacher, Deut. Gym. F. Nordschleswig, Germany
• Dr. Sergey Dobrin (1999 - 2000), University of Toronto, Canada
• Dr. Julia Davies (1997 - 1999), Imperial College, London, UK
• Dr. Runjun Li (1996 - 1998), Texas A & M University
• Dr. Marianne Sowa Resat (1995 - 1996), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland Washington
• Dr. Veysel Zengin (1995 - 1997), Bilim Ilac, Istanbul, Turkey
• Dr. Karl Hanold (1994 - 1997), Morpho Detection, Inc., Irvine, CA

Past Doctoral and Masters Students

• Amelia Ray Ph.D. '16, Lecturer University of California, San Diego
• Joel Rivera, M.S. '14
• Christopher J. Johnson, Ph.D. '11, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Stonybrook University
• John Savee, Ph.D. '09, Senior Research Scientist, Los Gatos Research
• Jennifer Mann, Ph.D. '08, Physical Electronics, Inc.
• Silvia De Dea, Ph.D. '08, Cymer/ASML, Inc.
• Jonathan Oakman, M.S. '08, Science Teacher, Mater Dei High School, San Diego
• Zhou Lu, Ph.D. '07, Assistant Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Beijing
• Shane Bowen, Ph.D. '05, Senior Scientist, Illumina, Inc.
• Christopher Laperle, Ph.D. '04, Professor, Providence College, RI
• Imane Khalil, Ph.D. '04, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, USD
• Leah-Nani Alconcel, Ph.D. '02, Imperial College, London
• Todd Clements, Ph.D. '02, Mt. San Antonio College
• Khai Luong, Ph.D. '01, Bioinformatics, Roche Molecular Systems
• Mark Garner, Ph.D. '98, Community College of Southern Nevada
• Christopher R. Sherwood, Ph.D. '95, Cisco Systems
• Joseph McDaniels, M.S. '02, Schlumberger, Intl.
• Karen McSwain, M.S. '96, Kyocera
• Melissa J. Castle, M.S. '94

Past Undergraduate Students

• Clayton Anderson (2013-2015) B.S. Physics and Mathematics UCSD '15
  Dean of Physical Sciences Undergraduate Award of Excellence, 2015
• Joshua Antelman (1998-2000) B.S. Chemistry UCSD '00
• Summer Bates (2016) B.S. Chemistry student, UCSD
• Theodore Bitner (1995) Ph.D. Chemistry UCLA '02
• Jessia Blevins (1994) B.S. Chemistry UCSD '95
• Sarah Bronner (2006) Ph.D. Chemistry UCLA '12
• Christopher Condon (2016) B.S. Chemistry student, UCSD
• Hoan-Nguyen Doan (1995) B.S. UCSD '96
• Christopher Duarte (2007) B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSD
• Gregory Dupraw (2009-2010) B.S. Chemistry and Physics UCSD '10
• Kevin T. Early (2004-2005) Ph.D. Chemistry U Mass Amherst '10
• Anthony Fu (2007-2009) Graduate student UCB
  Dean of Physical Sciences Undergraduate Award of Excellence, 2008
• J.C. Gallardo (2001-2002) Chemistry major, UCSD
• Scott J. Graybeal (1993) B.S. Chemistry UCSD 1994
• Dominic Graziani (2004-2006) Ph.D. Chemistry, UCB '11
• Elad Harel (2000-2003) Assistant Professor Northwestern University
• Keren Jacobs (1995) Ph.D. Chemistry, UC Berkeley '02
• Jacqueline Kessler (1996-1998) Ph.D. Chemical Physics, Caltech '03
• Miao Li (2015) B.S. Chemical Engineering '16
• Shawn Littrell (1996) B.S. Chemistry UCSD '96
• Raymond W. Liu (1998-2000) M.D. Johns Hopkins '04
• Kevin R. Mackie (1994) B.S. Mechanical Engineering UCSD '95
• Morgan Miller (2014-2015) curent Ph.D. student UCSD with the Continetti Group
• Anthony A. Mrse (1992-1993) Ph.D. Chemistry LSU '01
• Laura Neurauter (1999-2001) B.S. Chemistry UCSD '01
• Erik K. Richman (1999-2000) Ph.D. Chemistry UCLA '09
• Jiwon Ashley Shin (2016) B.S. Chemistry and Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis
• Nicholas Watkins (2015-2016) B.S. Chemistry major at UC Berkeley
• Samuel Wilson (2004) Ph.D. Chemistry, Stanford '12
• Surjani Winoto (1994) B.S. Chemistry UCSD '96
• Timothy Yo (2015-2017) B.S. Chemical Engineering UCSD '17

Past Guests

• Dr. Morton Fineman
• Dr. Peter Kelly, University of California, Davis
• Dr. Micheal Parkes, University College London
• Dr. Richard Thomas, Stockholm University
• Dr. Giovanni Piani, CNRS Saclay
• Professor Maurizio Becucci, European laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) Florence, Italy
• Assistant Professor Kenichi Iwamoto, Osaka Prefecture University
• Professor Bong Hyun Boo, Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea
• Professor Lester Andrews, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA