Michael D. Fayer
Curriculum Vitae
Born: September 12, 1947, Los Angeles, California
Marital Status: Married, two children
Education:
- University of California at Berkeley, 1965-1969 - B. S. 1969
- Undergraduate National Science Foundation Fellow
- Phi Beta Kappa
- University of California at Berkeley, 1969-1974, Ph.D. - 1974
Academic Positions:
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Stanford University, 1974 - 1980
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Stanford University, 1980 - 1984
- Professor of Chemistry
- Stanford University, 1984 - 2000
- David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtist Franklin Professor of Chemistry
- Stanford University, 2000 on
Honors and Affiliations:
- Earl K Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy (2000)
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow (since 1999)
- Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (1983)
- American Physical Society Fellow (since 1982)
- Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Fellow (1977)
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1977)
- Sigma Xi (since 1975)
- Plenary Lecturer, 13th International Conference on Photochemical
- Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy, Snowmass, CO, 2000
- Plenary Lecturer, Western Spectroscopy Association Conference,
- Asilomar, CA, 2000
- H. Willard Davis Lecturer, University of South Carolina, 1998
- Closs Memorial Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1994
- Moses Gomberg Lecturer, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1992
- William Albert Noyes Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, 1990
- Arthur D. Little Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980
- Professor of Physics, University of Grenoble, Grenoble France, 1982
- Editorial Board, Journal of Chemical Physics, 1987-1990
- Advisory Board, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1986-1989
- Associate Editor, Journal of Luminescence 1988-present
- Advisory Editor, Chemical Physics Letters, 1984-present
- Advisory Editor, Chemical Physics, 1985-present
- Chairman, Fourth International Conference on Dynamical Processes
- Stanford, July, 1983
- Chairman, 7th International Conference on Unconventional Photoactive Systems
- Stanford, September, 1995
- Stanford University Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1986
Principal Research Interests::
Dynamics and intermolecular interactions of molecules in condensed phases and biological systems. Development and application of ultrafast infrared vibrational echoes, two-dimensional vibrational echoes, and other ultrafast infrared methods for the study of vibrational dynamics and interactions in liquids, glasses, proteins, and high pressure gases. The development and use of ultrafast non-linear optical techniques, combined with other ultrafast optical methods and theory to investigate dynamics in complex liquids. Statistical mechanics of dynamics in disordered systems. Experimental and theoretical studies of photo-induced electron transfer.