Munira Khalil

Munira Khalil
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colgate University
Scientific career
Institutions	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 department chair at the University of Washington.

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

• 2007 Dreyfus New Faculty Award ^[5]
• 2008 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering ^[6]
• 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER Award ^{[ citation needed ]}
• 2011 Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium ^[7]
• 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship ^[8]
• 2013 Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award ^[9]
• 2014 Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship ^[10]
• 2011 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow ^[2]
• 2017 American Physical Society Fellow ^[11]
• 2021 Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences ^[12]
• 2022 Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Brown Investigator Awards ^[13]

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. 18 October 2011. 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. 6 January 2021. 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.