Curriculum Vitae

Education

Institution Years
University of Waterloo; Waterloo, Ontario 1972-1976
B.Sc. in Chemistry (Physics option) May 1976
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, Massachusetts 1976-1980
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. Thesis on "Laser Spectroscopy of Alkaline Earth Monohalides" supervised by Professor R. W. Field 1981

Academic and Professional Appointments

Institution Years
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Waterloo

2008-Present (Adjunct)
2006-2008 (on Leave)
1991-2006

NSERC-Bomem-CSA-MSC Industrial Research Chair in Fourier Transform Spectroscopy 2001-2006
Professeur Visiteur, Université Libre de Bruxelles 1997-1998
Director, Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry 1994-1997
Senior Research Scientist, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Arizona 1991-2006
Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Arizona 1988-1990
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Arizona 1982-1988
Research Associate, National Research Council of Canada's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics; Ottawa, ON.
Worked on infrared laser spectroscopy of free radicals and ions
Nov.1980-Aug.1982

Honours and Awards

Honour/Award Years
2013 Ashley Fellow, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada 2013
Alan Berman Research Publication Award (Naval Research Lab) as a co-author of "Observations of increasing carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's thermosphere" 2013
Benedict Spectroscopy Award (from Elsevier Press on behalf of the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer) 2012
University of Waterloo, College of Science, Distinguished Alumni Award 2011
Alouette Award of Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) for ACE satellite (shared with V. Wehrle, G. Rumbold, I. Walkty, T. McElroy and M.-A. Soucy) 2009

Lectureships
    Morino Lecture, Kyoto University
    Robert W. Murray Lecture, University of Missouri-St. Louis
    Distinguished Visting Professor, University of Florida

2002
2005
2010
University of Waterloo , Excellence in Research Award 2004
Killam Research Fellowship 1998-2000
Broida Prize of the International Symposium on Free Radicals 1997
Fellow, Optical Society of America 1992
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar 1987-1992
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow 1987-1990
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Postgraduate Scholarship 1976-1980
Alumni Gold Medal, University of Waterloo 1976
Society of Chemical Industry Merit Award 1976
Chemical Institute of Canada Student Medal 1975
INCO Participating Scholarship 1974-1976
Chem 13 News Research Assistantship 1972-1974