Welcome to Barra Group

Monica Barra

My area of interest is physical-organic chemistry. Back in the days as a research-active Faculty member, our research projects focused on understanding fundamental thermodynamic and kinetic properties of organic systems of significance to the general field of materials science and of various potential uses, ranging from pharmaceutical applications and catalysis to sensors and microelectronics. The investigations were based primarily on the application of UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and time-resolved laser-flash photolysis techniques. While the emphasis of our projects was on thermodynamic and kinetic properties, the studies also involved organic synthesis (and therefore the application of chromatographic techniques and mass spectrometry, as well as NMR and IR spectroscopy).


No undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate position is available.