RESEARCH INTERESTS

       Most of my research interests lie within the two closely related fields of high-resolution molecular spectroscopy and interstellar chemistry. I have long been captivated by high-resolution spectroscopy's ability to provide unambiguous and detailed information about the structure and intramolecular dynamics of free molecules. This structural and dynamical information is not only of fundamental interest, but is also valuable in many branches of physical, organic, inorganic, and interstellar chemistry. In the latter case, spectroscopy serves as our only probe of the physical and chemical conditions of interstellar clouds, which represent the starting material for the formation of stars and planetary systems.

       The following links contain brief descriptions some of the major laboratory and observational research projects I have been involved in as a graduate student at the University of Chicago and as a Miller Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley.

 
Laboratory Projects - Berkeley Observational Projects - Berkeley
* Storage-Ring Dissociative Recombination Measurements
* Laboratory Spectroscopy of C3
* Investigation of New Raman-shifting Techniques
* H3+ towards Zeta Persei and a High Cosmic-Ray Flux
* Diffuse Interstellar Bands
* Carbon Chains in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium
Laboratory Projects - Chicago Observational Projects - Chicago
* Laboratory Spectroscopy of H3+
* Compilation and Analysis of H3+ Spectroscopic Data
* Discovery of H3+ in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium
* Survey of H3+ in Dense Interstellar Clouds