HERSCHEL A. RABITZ
Personal and Professional Vita

Work Address:

Department of Chemistry

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544

Telephone: (609) 258-3917

Fax: (609) 258-0967

E-mail: hrabitz@princeton.edu

Research Interests:

Professor Rabitz's research interests lie at the interface of chemistry, physics, and engineering, with principal areas of focus including molecular dynamics, biophysical chemistry, chemical kinetics, and optical interactions with matter. An overriding theme throughout his research is the emphasis on molecular-scale systems analysis. Professor Rabitz has over 730 publications in the general area of chemical physics.

Education:

• Post-doctoral Associate, University of Wisconsin, 1970-1971
• Ph.D. in Chemical Physics, Harvard University, 1970
• B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1966

Academic Experience:

• Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, July, 1993 - June, 1996
• Affiliated Member and Acting Director (1981), Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics,Princeton University, 1974 - Present
• Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University, 1980 - Present
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University, 1976 - 1980
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University, 1971 - 1976

Societies:

• American Physical Society
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Chemical Society
• Sigma XI
• Phi Beta Kappa

Honors:

• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1975 - 1979
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1974 - 1979
• Alexander von Humboldt Award, 2000
• Charles Phelps Smyth Professor of Chemistry, 2000
• Willis E. Lamb Medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, 2003
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2004
• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Gold Award 2005
• Honorary member of the International Physics and Control Society (IPACS) 2006

Editorships:

• Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 1993 - Present
• Associate Editor, Progress in Physics, Chemistry and Mechanics, 1989 - Present
• Associate Editor, Journal of Chemical Physics, 1998 - Present
• Member of the Editorial Board, Entropy, 1998 – Present
• Member of the Editorial Board, Laser Physics Review, 2005

Rabitz HomeVita Current Research InterestsPublications

Department of ChemistryPrinceton University