Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Chemistry

Charles D. Sherrill博士被授予美国国家科学基金会化学博士后研究奖学金。在Henry Schaefer教授的指导下，她获得了佐治亚大学的博士学位。在Martin Head-Gordon教授的赞助下，Sherrill博士将继续在加州大学伯克利分校进行研究。博士后研究方向为分子与金属表面间的非绝热能量流动。该方法将考虑核电子耦合来研究气体表面粘附、扩散和高能散射的非绝热效应。同样令人感兴趣的是激光诱导气体分子从金属表面的解吸过程，这涉及到从传导电子到吸附质振动模式的非绝热能量转移。目前可获得的激光诱导解吸的高质量实验数据有助于研究。化学博士后研究奖学金项目被视为一项重要的基础设施项目，旨在拓宽新博士的知识和经验，吸引他们从事当代化学研究和教学中有意义的职业。

Dr. Charles D. Sherrill has been awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chemistry. Dr. Sherrill received the doctoral degree from the University of Georgia under the supervision of Professor Henry Schaefer. Dr. Sherrill will continue research at the University of California at Berkeley under the sponsorship of Professor Martin Head-Gordon. The postdoctoral research will focus on the investigation of nonadiabatic energy flow between molecules and metal surfaces. The approach will take into account nuclear-electronic coupling to investigate nonadiabatic effects on gas-surface sticking, diffusion, and high energy scattering. Also of interest is the process of laser-induced desorption of gas molecules from metal surfaces, which involves nonadiabatic energy transfer from conduction electrons to vibrational modes of the adsorbate. Studies are aided by high-quality experimental data on laser-induced desorption now available. The Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Chemistry Program is viewed as an important infrastructural program designed to broaden the knowledge and experience of new Ph. D.s and attract them into meaningful careers in contemporary chemical research and teaching.