Tamar Seideman (Hebrew: תמר זיידמן) is the Dow Chemical Company Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Northwestern University. She specialises in coherence spectroscopies and coherent control in isolated molecules and dissipative media as well as in ultrafast nanoplasmonics, current-driven phenomena in nanoelectronics and mathematical models.
Tamar Seideman | |
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| Born | November 26, 1959 |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Known for | Nanoscience Coherent control Strong field dynamics Theoretical chemistry |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | National Research Council of Canada University of California, Berkeley Northwestern University Weizmann Institute of Science |
Early life and education edit
Seideman was born in Israel. She studied chemistry at the Tel Aviv University and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in 1982.[1] She joined the Weizmann Institute of Science for her doctoral studies and earned her PhD under the supervision of Moshe Shapiro in 1990.[2] Her doctoral work considered the quantum theory of laser catalysis.[3] Seideman was made a Weizmann Fellow and a Fulbright Program Fellow at University of California, Berkeley.[2] Here she worked with William H. Miller on mathematical method development.[4] In 1992 she joined the Ames Research Center as a Principal Investigator before being appointed a research associate at the National Research Council of Canada in 1993.[5]
Research and career edit
Seideman was made an associate research officer at the National Research Council of Canada in 1996. She was cross-appointed as a professor of chemistry at Queen's University. Here she developed the concepts of nonadiabatic alignment and molecular focusing in laser fields and the theory of time-resolved photoelectron angular distributions.[6] She collaborated with experimentalist coworkers on the problem of the molecular phase in two-pathway excitation experiments and on current-triggered surface nanochemistry.
Seideman was made a professor of chemistry at Northwestern University in 2003.[7] Here she develops and applies quantum mechanical theories to understand phenomena including quantum transport and current-induced dynamics in molecular electronic devices; ultrafast nanoplasmonics and information guidance in the nanoscale; attosecond science and the interaction of matter with intense laser fields; and coherent control and coherence spectroscopies in isolated molecules and in dissipative media. [8] In other research, Seideman has explored coherent control of molecular dynamics and its extension to control of transport in the nanoscale. She proposed that current in nanoscale constructs can be used to drive molecular machines.[9] Additionally, she has demonstrated it is possible to use a scanning tunnelling microscope to control surface reactions. In related work, Seideman showed that one can guide light using nanoparticle arrays to create custom nanoplasmonics.[10]
Her recent work has developed theoretical and computational models to control the nanoscale properties of material systems.[11] This has included an investigation of charge transport through molecular and nanoscale electronic materials in an effort to improve the efficiency of solar cells.[11] To understand charge transport mechanisms, she has studied optically induced tunnelling through junctions.[12] Her best known research is in the area of laser alignment. Originally introduced for isolated small molecules, this was recently extended to nonrigid molecules. dissipative media and condensed matter systems. In disordered assembly, the laser field can impart long-range orientational order to molecular layers.[13] In dense molecular assemblies, alignment can become a collective phenomenon with long range translational and orientational order.[13] In polyatomic molecules alignment can be used to control torsional motions with a variety of new applications, including control of charge transport, energy transfer, axial chirality and reactivity.[13] Seideman takes annually a visiting professor position at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Awards and honours edit
Her awards and honours include ("Tamar Seideman: Department of Physics and Astronomy - Northwestern University". www.physics.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-30.);
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle, Germany[14]
- Fellow of the American Physical Society[15]
- Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[16]
- Senior A. von Humboldt Research Award, Berlin, Germany
- Sackler Visiting Award, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- University of Hamburg Mildred Dresselhaus Award, Hamburg, Germany[17]
- Weizmann Institute of Science Weston Professorship, Rehovot, Israel
- Journal of Physical Chemistry Celebration of Women Chemists[18]
- Wegner Award, Haifa, Israel
- Fulbright Research Award, University of California Berkeley
- Chaim Weizmann Fellowship, University of California Berkeley
- J. F. Kennedy Award, Rehovot, Israel
- Daniel Brener Award, Rehovot, Israel
- Knesset of Israel Award, Jerusalem, Israel
Selected publication edit
She is the author of 311 publications, including;
- Seideman, Tamar (2010). Current-Driven Phenomena in Nanoelectronics. Stanford. ISBN 978-9814241502.
- Seideman, Tamar (2003-04-17). "Colloquium: Aligning molecules with strong laser pulses". Reviews of Modern Physics. 75 (2): 543–557. Bibcode:2003RvMP...75..543S. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.75.543. S2CID 4655968.
- Seideman, Tamar (1999-12-13). "Revival Structure of Aligned Rotational Wave Packets". Physical Review Letters. 83 (24): 4971–4974. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83.4971S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4971.
References edit
- ^ "nanoHUB.org - Members: View: Tamar Seideman". nanohub.org. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ a b Fainberg, Boris D.; Seideman, Tamar (2013-06-28). "Optically induced current in molecular conduction nanojunctions with semiconductor contacts". Chemical Physics Letters. 576: 1–9. Bibcode:2013CPL...576....1F. doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2013.02.045. ISSN 0009-2614.
- ^ Seideman, Tamar; Krause, Jeffrey L.; Shapiro, Moshe (1991-01-01). "Quantum theory of laser catalysis in one and three dimensions". Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society. 91: 271–288. doi:10.1039/DC9919100271. ISSN 0301-7249.
- ^ "::: Miller Research Group". www.cchem.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ Gordon, Robert J.; Zhu, Langchi; Seideman, Tamar (1999-12-01). "Coherent Control of Chemical Reactions". Accounts of Chemical Research. 32 (12): 1007–1016. doi:10.1021/ar970119l. ISSN 0001-4842.
- ^ Seideman, Tamar (2002). "Time-Resolved Photoelectron Angular Distributions: Concepts, Applications, and Directions". Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 53 (1): 41–65. Bibcode:2002ARPC...53...41S. doi:10.1146/annurev.physchem.53.082101.130051. PMID 11972002.
- ^ "Tamar Seideman: Department of Chemistry - Northwestern University". www.chemistry.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0313638 - Current-Triggered Dynamics in Molecular-Scale Devices". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ "Single molecule drives nanomachines". Machine Design. 2006-01-12. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ^ "2Physics: Toward Coherent Control in the Nanoscale". Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ^ a b "NSF Award Search: Award#1465201 - Coherent and Incoherent Control in Material Systems". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ Li, Guangqi; Fainberg, Boris D.; Seideman, Tamar (2015-04-17). "Optically induced transport through semiconductor-based molecular electronics". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 142 (15): 154111. Bibcode:2015JChPh.142o4111L. doi:10.1063/1.4917029. ISSN 0021-9606. PMID 25903870.
- ^ a b c "Laser Physics Workshop". Laser Physics. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ^ "Leopoldina members" (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Tamar Seideman". Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ "First Mildred Dresselhaus Awardees expected | CUI – The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging". www.cui-archiv.uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ Schatz, George C.; McCoy, Anne B.; Shea, Joan-Emma; Murphy, Catherine J.; Scholes, Gregory D. (2017-11-02). "Virtual Issue in Honor of the 150th Birthday of Marie Curie: Highlighting Female Physical Chemists". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121 (43): 9983–9985. Bibcode:2017JPCA..121.8185S. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b09653. ISSN 1520-6106. PMID 29092405.