Munira Khalil
Munira Khalil | |
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| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colgate University |
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| Workplaces | University of Washington |
| Thesis | A tale of coupled vibrations in solution told by coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2004) |
Munira Khalil is an American chemist who is the Leon C. Johnson Professor of Chemistry and former department chair at the University of Washington.
Early life and education
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Khalil attended Colgate University, where she majored in chemistry and English[1] and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[2] where she developed coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to investigate the molecular structure of coupled vibrations on a picosecond timescale. Khalil then moved to the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher, where she was a Miller Research Fellow.[1][3]
Research and career
[edit]In 2007, Khalili joined the University of Washington. In her research, she uses ultrafast spectroscopies to understand the structural dynamics of molecules.[4] Photoinduced charge transfer depends on an interplay between atomic and electronic processes on multi-dimensional energy surfaces.[5] She develops 3D electronic-vibrational femtosecond spectroscopies to understand vibrational and electronics motions on femtosecond timescales.[5] In particular, she is interested in how solvents (e.g., water in photosynthesis) impact the electron transfer processes.[6]
Khalil was appointed chair of the department of chemistry in 2020.[2] In her 5-year term, she led the department through the COVID-19 pandemic, broadened shared governance, and spearheaded efforts for a new chemistry building.[7]
Awards and honors
[edit]- 2003-2006 Fellow of the Miller Institute[3]
- 2007 Dreyfus New Faculty Award[8]
- 2008 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering[9]
- 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER Award[2]
- 2011 Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium[10]
- 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship[11]
- 2013 Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award[12]
- 2014 Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship[13]
- 2011 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow[5]
- 2017 American Physical Society Fellow[14]
- 2021 Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences[15]
- 2022 Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Brown Investigator Awards[16]
- 2025 David Thorud Leadership Award[7]
Selected publications
[edit]- Khalil M; Demirdöven N; Tokmakoff A (30 January 2003). "Obtaining absorptive line shapes in two-dimensional infrared vibrational correlation spectra". Physical Review Letters. 90 (4) 047401. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.90.047401. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 12570457.
- Golonzka O; Khalil M; Demirdöven N; Tokmakoff A (1 March 2001). "Vibrational anharmonicities revealed by coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy". Physical Review Letters. 86 (10): 2154–2157. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.86.2154. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 11289878.
- Nurettin Demirdöven; Christopher M Cheatum; Hoi Sung Chung; Munira Khalil; Jasper Knoester; Andrei Tokmakoff (1 June 2004). "Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of antiparallel beta-sheet secondary structure". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 126 (25): 7981–7990. doi:10.1021/JA049811J. hdl:11370/822a6b4b-8dc3-41e3-8078-1ece04f896f2. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 15212548.
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Munira Khalil". University of Washington. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
- 1 2 3 "Munira Khalil named next Chair of the Department of Chemistry". University of Washington. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- 1 2 "Miller Members". millermembers.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
- ↑ "Femtosecond Coherent Multidimensional Vibronic Spectroscopy". www.mpsd.mpg.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- 1 2 3 "Munira Khalil". www.nasonline.org. Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ "Role of solvent molecules in light-driven electron transfer revealed". UW News. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- 1 2 "Munira Khalil". University of Washington Human Resources. 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
- ↑ "UW Dept. of Chemistry - News & Events". www.cbprcurriculum.info. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ "Khalil, Munira". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ "Distinguished Young Scientists Selected to Participate in Kavli…". Kavli Foundation. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ "Munira Khalil, Shwetak Patel, and Bo Zhang were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships". UW Research. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ "Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program" (PDF). 2018.
- ↑ "Archives". ACS Technical Division. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ "Munira Khalil elected as APS Fellow". University of Washington. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ "20 UW researchers elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021". UW News. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ "Women Win Three of the Four Investigator Awards From the Brown Science Foundation". Women In Academia Report. 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
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- Living people
- University of Washington faculty
- 21st-century American chemists
- Colgate University alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology people
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Sloan Research Fellows
- American spectroscopists
- American women chemists
- 21st-century American women scientists
- American physical chemists
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- University of California, Berkeley Miller Fellows