Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-2003 Greendale Senior Scholar, Merton College, Oxford, 1998-2001 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Awardee, 2005-2007 College of Science Distinguished Early Career Teaching Award, 2014

Physical/Chemical Physics/Chemical Reaction Dynamics/Kinetics/Interactions/Energy Science/Instrument Development/Spectroscopy/molecular Structure/Surfaces and Solid State

Interfacial Structure and Dynamics in Organic Photovoltaic Cells, Organic Thermoelectrics and Organic Spintronics

Organic Electronics, Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Organic Semiconductors, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Interfacial Processes, Surface Science

S. Steil, N. Grossmann, M. Laux, A. Ruffing, M. Wiesenmayer, O.L.A. Monti, M. Cinchetti, M. Aeschlimann, "The nature of spin-filtering at hybrid ferromagnetic metal-organic interfaces", Nature Physics, in press (2013) A. Terentjevs, M.P. Steele, M.L. Blumenfeld, N. Ilyas, L.L. Kelly, E. Fabiano, O.L.A. Monti and F. Della Sala, "Interfacial Electronic Structure of the Dipolar Vanadyl Naphthalocyanine on Au (111): Push back vs dipolar effects", J. Phys. Chem. C, 115 (2011), 21128-21138 B.-Y. Kim, I.-B. Shim, O.L.A. Monti, and J. Pyun, "Magnetic Self-Assembly of Gold Nanoparticle Chains Using Dipolar Core-Shell Colloids", Chem. Comm., 47 (2011), 890-892 O.L.A. Monti and M.P. Steele, "Influence of Electrostatic Fields on Molecular Electronic Structure: Insights for Interfacial Charge Transfer", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 12 (2010), 12390, Invited Perspective M.P. Steele, M.L. Blumenfeld and O.L.A. Monti, "Image States at the Interface with a Dipolar Organic Semiconductor", J. Chem. Phys., 133 (2010), 124701 M.P. Steele, M.L. Blumenfeld and O.L.A. Monti, "Experimental Determination of Excited State Polarizability and Dipole Moment in a Thin Organic Semiconductor Film", J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 1 (2010), 2011 M.L. Blumenfeld, M.P. Steele, O.L.A. Monti, "Interfacial Electronic Structure of Vanadylnaphthalocyanine on HOPG", Surf. Sci., 604 (2010), 1649-1657 B.-Y. Kim, I.-B. Shim, Z. Ozkan, S.S. Saavadra, O.L.A. Monti, N.R. Armstrong, R. Sahoo, D.N. Srivastava, J. Pyun, "Synthesis and Colloidal Polymerization of Ferromagnetic Au-Co Nanoparticles into Au-Co3O4 Nanowires", J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 132 (2010), 3234 M.L. Blumenfeld, M.P. Steele, O. L. A. Monti, "Near- and Far-Field Effects on Molecular Energy Level Alignment at an Organic/Electrode Interface", J. Phys. Chem. Let., 1 (2010), 145 L.K. Schirra, B. S. Tackett, M.L. Blumenfeld, O. L. A. Monti, "Single Molecule Power-Law Behavior on a Crystalline Surface", J. Chem. Phys., 131 (2009), 124702 M.L. Blumenfeld, B. S. Tackett, L.K. Schirra, J.M. Tyler, O. L. A. Monti, "Confocal single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy in ultrahigh vacuum", Rev. Sci. Inst., 80 (2009), 103101

L.K. Schirra, M.L. Blumenfeld, B.S. Tackett, J.M. Tyler, O.L.A. Monti, "Toward single molecule interfacial charge transfer dynamics in a dye-sensitized solar cell model", Proc. SPIE 7034 (2008), 7034 08