Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar, 1999 Jean Holloway Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1999 Coblentz Memorial Prize in Molecular Spectroscopy, 1999 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1999

We are interested in a wide variety of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at solid surfaces or at interfaces. These processes are intellectually interesting because of dimensionality, challenging because of the small numbers of molecules involved and relevant to a number of important technologies such as heterogeneous catalysis and microelectronics. We approach these problems using a sophisticated array of modern surface spectroscopies, including surface Raman spectroscopy, which was pioneered in our laboratory. Click if you have Chime. chemisorbed Pyromellitic Dianhydride (PMDA)

Our current research centers around exploring the Resonance Raman of the charge-transfer between the chemisorbed molecule and atomically smooth surfaces. We are among the first to have demonstrated Raman enhancement on atomically-smooth surfaces due to charge-transfer effects, and current research centers around exploring this phenomenon in greater detail.

"untitled" Surface Science Letters 304 (1994): L407-L412.

"untitled" Surface Science 259 (1991): 207-214.