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Curriculum Vita: Jean H. Futrell

Professional Experience

• Ph.D., 1958, University of California, Berkeley
• Research Scientist, Exxon Research Center, Baytown, TX, 1958-59
• First Lieutenant and Captain, USAF, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 1959-61
• Senior Scientist, Aerospace Research Laboratories, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 1961-66
• Associate Professor, University of Utah, 1966-67
• Professor, University of Utah, 1967-86
• Professor, University of Delaware, 1986-90
• Willis F. Harrington Professor, 1990-present
• Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1993-present
• Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1986-present

Honors and Awards

• NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, 1995-57
• Allied-Chemical & Dye Corporation Graduate Fellowship, 1957-58
• NIH Career Development Award, 1969-74
• David P. Gardner Research Fellow, 1976-77
• Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics Visiting Fellow, 1976-77
• Fulbright Fellow, 1980-81
• Scientific Exchange Visitor, Heyrovsky Institute, Prague, 1974 and 1981
• Visiting Fellow, Hahn-Meitnzer, Berlin, 1983-84
• Albright and Wilson Visiting Professor, University of Warwick, 1991
• Delaware Section ACS Award for Distinguished Accomplishments in Research, 1995

Other Academic Appointments

• Visiting Professor of Chemistry & JILA Fellow, University of Colorado, 1976-77
• Visiting Professor of Physics, Leopold Franzens Universitaet, Innsbruck, Austria, 1981-82
• Professor of Physical Sciences, Northwest University, Xian, People's Republic of China, 1984
• Professur Associe, University of Paris, Sud, 1972, 1976, 1990

Professional Memberships

• American Chemical Society
• American Physical Society
• American Institute of Physics
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• The American Society for Mass Spectrometry
  Vice-President and Program Chairman, 1974-76
  President, 1976-78

  Council for Chemical Research

  Governing Board and Executive Committee, 1995-present

  Chair of Government Relations Committee, 1994-present

  CCR Representative, Chemistry Advisory Board, NSF, 1989-present

  Committee on Government Relations, 1988-present

  Convenor of Chemistry Chairs Conference, 1990-91

  Public Relations Committee, 1986-89

  Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry

  Hungarian Society for Mass Spectrometry

  Editorial Advisory Boards

  John Wiley, Chemical Physics, 1994-present

  Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 1992-95

  European Mass Spectrometry, 1995-present

Current Research

Teaching Experience

• General Chemistry, regular sequence course and honors
• Physical Chemistry, regular sequence course and honors
• Introductory Physics and Chemistry for non-science majors
• Reaction Kinetics, graduate and undergraduate
• Reaction Dynamics, graduate
• Mass Spectrometry, graduate
• Theory of Rate Processes, graduate
• Chemitry and Physics of Gaseious ions, special topics
• Principles of Ion Optics, special topics

Coworkers

• Dr. Anil K. Shukla Research Associate and Co-principal Investigator.
• Dr. Eugene Nikolaev Visiting Professor
• Dr. Ronald E. Tosh Post Doctoral Researcher
• Runzhi Zhao Graduate Student
• Rahul Chawla Graduate Student
• Xuedong Zhao Graduate Student
• Sergey Rakov Graduate Student
• Wenqing Zhong Visiting Graduate Student
• Matthew Radcliff Undergraduate Student

Publications

since 1991

• "The Role of Symmetry in Collisions of N₂ with N₂⁺," K. Sohlberg, J. Futrell, and K. Szalewicz, J. Chem. Phys.,94, 6500 (1991).
• "On the Lifetime of Electronically Excited Acetone Molecular Ions," S. Fenistein, J. Futrell, M. Heninger, R. Marx, G. Mauclaire, and Y. Yang, Chem. Phys. Lett.,179, 125 (1991).
• "A High Transmission Hemispherical Energy Analyzer for Ion Spectrometry," S. G. Anderson, K. W. Sohlberg, S. L. Howard, A. K. Shukla, and J. Futrell, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spec., 2, 506 (1991).
• "Electronic Excitation in Low Energy Collisions: A Study of the Collision-Induced Dissociation of Nitromethane Ion by Crossed-Beam Tandem Mass Spectrometry," K. Qian, A. Shukla, and J. Futrell, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 7121 (1991).
• "Collision-Induced Dissociation of the Propane Molecular Ion," A. K. Shukla, K. Qian, S. G. Anderson, and J. H. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. & Ion Proc., 190, 227 (1991).
• "Crossed-Molecular Beam Studies of State-to-State Reaction Dynamics," J. H. Futell, in State-Selected and State-to-State Reaction Dynamics, Part 1: Experiment, C.-Y. Ng and M. Baer, Eds. John Wiley-Interscience, NY, 1992.
• "Crossed-Molecular Beam Studies of State-to-State Reaction Dynamics," J. H. Futrell, Ad. Chem. Phys., 82, 501 (1992).
• "Collisional Activation and Dissociation of Polyatomic Ions," A. K. Shukla and J. H. Futrell, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, 12, 211 (1993).
• "Fundamental Studies of Collision-Induced Dissociation of Ions," in Experimental Mass Spectrometry, D. H. Russell, Ed., Plenum Publishing Corp., New York, 1994, pp. 71-112.
• "Molecular Dynamics Mass Spectrometric Study of the Collision-Induced Dissociation of CS₂⁺ Ions at Low and Intermediate Collision Energies," A. K. Shukla, R. E. Tosh, Y. B. Chen, and J. H. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spec. And Ion P roc., 146/147, 323 (1995).
• "Elaboration of an Impulsive Model for Collision-Induced Dissociation and Application to CS₂⁺ + Ar S⁺ + CS + Ar," R. E. Tosh, A. K. Shulkla, and J. H. Futrell, J. Phys. Chem., 99, 15488 (1995).
• "Analysis of FTMS Signal Waveforms for Multi-Electrode Detection," E. Nikolaev, D. Ridge, and J. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spec. And Ion Proc., (in press, 1996).
• "Unimolecular and Collision Induced Dissociation of CS₂⁺⁺ at High Collision Energy," X.D. Zhou, A. K. Shukla, R. E. Tosh, and J. H. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spec. And Ion Proc., (in press, 1996).
• "Collision Induced Dissociation of Methyl Nitrite," R. Zhao, A. K. Shuka, and J. H. Futrell, J. of Amer. Soc. Mass Spec., (submitted 1996).
• "Collision Induced Dissociation of Enolic Acetone," R. Zhao, A. K. Shukla, R.E. Tosh, and J. H. Futrell, J. of Amer. Soc. Mass Spec., (submitted 1996).