 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Professor, Born 1953
B.A. 1975, University of California-Santa Cruz
Ph.D. 1979, Harvard University
Room: 8305e
Phone: 608-262-0481
Email: skinner@chem.wisc.edu
Position: Professor
Vibrational energy relaxation of the bend fundamental of dilute water in liquid chloroform and d-chloroform, Y.-S. Lin, S. G. Ramesh, J. M. Shorb, E. L. Sibert III and J. L. Skinner, J. Phys. Chem. B 112, 390 (2008). Infrared and Raman spectra of liquid water: Theory and interpretation, B.M. Auer and J.L. Skinner, J. Chem. Phys. 128, 224511 (2008). Water simulation model with explicit three-molecule interactions, R. Kumar and J. L. Skinner, J. Phys. Chem. B 112, 8311 (2008). Dynamical effects in line shapes for coupled chromophores: Time-averaging approximation, B. M. Auer and J. L. Skinner, J. Chem. Phys. 127, 104105 (2007). Hydrogen bonding and Raman, IR, and 2DIR spectroscopy of dilute HOD in liquid D2O, B. M. Auer, R. Kumar, J. R. Schmidt and J. L. Skinner, PNAS 104, 14214 (2007). Hydrogen bonding definitions and dynamics in liquid water, R. Kumar, J. R. Schmidt and J. L. Skinner, J. Chem. Phys. 126, 204107 (2007). Vibrational spectral diffusion of azide in water, S. Li, J. R. Schmidt, A. Piryatinski, C. P. Lawrence and J. L. Skinner, J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 18933 (2006). A mode-coupling theory of vibrational line broadening in near-critical fluids, S. A. Egorov, C. P. Lawrence, and J. L. Skinner, J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 6879 (2005). Infrared and Raman line shapes of dilute HOD in liquid H2O and D2O from 10 to 90 C, S. A. Corcelli and J. L. Skinner, J. Phys. Chem. A 109, 6154 (2005). Pronounced non-Condon effects in the ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy of water, J. R. Schmidt, S. A. Corcelli, and J. L. Skinner, J. Chem. Phys. 123, 044513 (2005). - Vibrational spectroscopy of HOD in liquid D2O. III. Spectral diffusion, and hydrogen-bonding and rotational dynamics, C. P. Lawrence, and J. L. Skinner, J. Chem. Phys. 118, 264 (2003).
- Local density enhancement in dilute supercritical solutions, S. A. Egorov, A. Yethiraj, and J. L. Skinner, Chem. Phys. Lett. 317, 558 (2000).
- Quantum dynamics and vibrational relaxation, S. A. Egorov, K. F. Everitt, and J. L. Skinner, J. Phys. Chem. A 103, 9494 (1999).
- Two-state dynamics of single biomolecules in solution, E. Geva and J. L. Skinner, Chem. Phys. Lett. 288, 225 (1998).
Molecular theory of electronic spectroscopy in nonpolar fluids: Ultrafast solvation dynamics and absorption and emission lineshapes, M. D. Stephens, J. G. Saven, and J. L. Skinner, J. Chem. Phys. 106, 2129 (1997). - Theory of single molecule optical line shape distributions in low temperature glasses, E. Geva and J. L. Skinner, J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 8920 (1997).
| Research Description
My group is interested in the structure and dynamics of condensed phase systems, and in particular, in the theory of time-dependent phenomena in liquids, supercritical fluids, crystalline and amorphous solids, on surfaces, and in proteins. We typically use the methods of classical and quantum non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to investigate these phenomena.
Experimentally, one important avenue for determining the structure and dynamics of condensed matter involves vibrational and optical spectroscopy. Typically, such spectroscopy contains information about local molecular environments, whose extraction, however, usually requires theoretical models and their solutions. For some time we have been developing theoretical models for molecular spectroscopy in crystals, amorphous solids, liquids, and in proteins, and have performed calculations on specific systems for comparison with a number of different types of experiments. Examples include: single-molecule spectroscopy in crystals, glasses and biopolymers, hole-burning spectroscopy in proteins, and conventional and ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy in liquids, supercritical fluids and proteins, and at interfaces.
Relaxation processes are important for the understanding of chemical reaction dynamics, electron transfer reactions, NMR spectroscopy, solid-state laser design, and many other fields. We been involved with developing theories of relaxation processes in condensed phases. Our interests range from fundamental issues in non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics, to calculations of multi-phonon relaxation in crystals, and to theories of vibrational energy relaxation in liquids.
Last Updated: February 14, 2008
Noyes Memorial Lecturer, University of Rochester, 2008 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006 Kohler Lecturer, UC Riverside, 2005 Fellow, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, 2003 University of Wisconsin Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, 2003 Reilly Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, 2003 Student Hosted Colloquium Speaker, Stanford University, 2003 Student Invited Seminar Speaker, MIT, 2002 Pharmacia Teaching Award, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 2000 Hascoe Distinguished Lecturer, University of Connecticut, 1998 Fellow, American Physical Society, 1997 Graduate Student Invited Speaker, University of California, Berkeley, 1997 Closs Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1997 Davidson Lecturer, University of Kansas, 1995 University of Wisconsin Mid-Career Award, 1995 Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist, 1993-96 Guggenheim Fellow, 1993-94 Phi Lambda Upsilon Fresenius Award, 1989 - National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, 1984-89
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1984-89 - Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1984-88
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1980-81 - National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1975-78
- Received A.B. with Highest Honors in Chemistry, Highest Honors in Physics
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