Munira Khalil

Munira Khalil is an American chemist who is the Leon C. Johnson Professor of Chemistry and department chair at the University of Washington.

Munira Khalil
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Colgate University
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
ThesisA tale of coupled vibrations in solution told by coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2004)

Early life and education

Khalil attended Colgate University, where she majored in chemistry and English and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for doctoral research, where she developed coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to study the molecular structure of coupled vibrations on a picosecond timescale. Khalil moved to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher, where she was made a Miller Fellow.

Research and career

In 2007, Khalili joined the University of Washington. Her research makes use of ultrafast spectroscopies to understand the structural dynamics of molecules.[1] Photoinduced charge transfer depends on an interplay between atomic and electronic processes on multi-dimensional energy surfaces.[2] She develops 3D electronic-vibrational femtosecond spectroscopies to understand vibrational and electronics motions on femtosecond timescales.[2] In particular, she is interested in how solvents (e.g. water in photosynthesis) impact the electron transfer processes.[3]

Khalil was made chair of the department of chemistry in 2020.[4]

Awards and honors

Selected publications
  • 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. Wikidata Q78896659.
  • 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. Wikidata Q73717457.
  • 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. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 15212548. Wikidata Q34328559.

References
  1. "Femtosecond Coherent Multidimensional Vibronic Spectroscopy". www.mpsd.mpg.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  2. "Munira Khalil". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  3. "Role of solvent molecules in light-driven electron transfer revealed". UW News. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  4. "Munira Khalil named next Chair of the Department of Chemistry | Department of Chemistry | University of Washington". chem.washington.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  5. "UW Dept. of Chemistry - News & Events". www.cbprcurriculum.info. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  6. "Khalil, Munira". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  7. "Distinguished Young Scientists Selected to Participate in Kavli…". Kavli Foundation. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  8. "Munira Khalil, Shwetak Patel, and Bo Zhang were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships". UW Research. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  9. "Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program" (PDF). 2018.
  10. "Archives". ACS Technical Division. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  11. "Munira Khalil elected as APS Fellow | Department of Chemistry | University of Washington". chem.washington.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  12. "20 UW researchers elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021". UW News. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  13. "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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