B.S. University of Texas at Arlington 1979 Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin 1987 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago 1987-1990 American Chemical Society American Physical Society American Association for the Advancement of Science

Computational and experimental studies of excited state dynamics in extended pi-systems fluctuation-induced charge-transfer processes quantum coherent processes in condensed phases

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