Eric R. Bittner is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston's Department of Chemistry.
He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Physics from Valparaiso University in 1988, and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1994 under the direction of John C. Light. He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (1994-1996) and Stanford University (1986-1997). Notable accolades include an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (1997) and a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in the theory of Molecular electronics (2007).
Recent publications edit
- Phonon-driven ultrafast exciton dissociation at donor-acceptor polymer heterojunctions, Hiroyuki Tamura, John G. S. Ramon, Eric R. Bittner, and Irene Burghardt,Phys. Rev. Lett. , (2008).
- Calculations of Exciton Coupling Elements Between the DNA Bases Using the Transition Density Cube Method, Arkadiusz Czader and Eric R. Bittner,J. Chem. Phys. 128, 035101 (2008).
- Phonon-driven exciton dissociation at donor-acceptor polymer heterojunctions:direct vs. bridge-mediated vibronic-coupling pathways, H. Tamura, J. G. S. Ramon, E. R. Bittner and I. Burghardt.,J. Phys. Chem. B 112, 495-506 (2007).
- Thermodynamics of mesoscopic atomic clusters using variational quantum hydrodynamics, Sean W. Derrickson and Eric R. Bittner,J. Phys. Chem. A 111, 10345 (2007).
- Non-adiabatic quantum dynamics based on hierarchical electron-phonon model: exciton dissociation in semi-conducting polymers, Hiroyuki Tamura, Eric R. Bittner, and Irene Burghardt,J. Chem. Phys. 127, 034706 (2007).
- Frenkel exciton model of ultrafast excited state dynamics in AT DNA double helices, Eric R. Bittner,J. Photochem. and Photobiol. A 190, 328-334 (2007).
- Theory of non-Condon emission from the interchain exciton in conjugated polymer aggregates, Eric R. Bittner, Stoyan Karabunarliev, and Laura M. Herz,J. Chem. Phys. 126, 191102 (2007).
- Excited states calculations on fluorene-based polymer blends: Effect of stacking orientation and solvation, John Glenn S. Ramon and Eric R. Bittner,J. Chem. Phys. 126, 181101 (2007).