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2001-2002 Seminar Biographical Sketches
Marcos
Dantus is an Associate Professor in
the Department of Chemistry and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department
of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University.
He received his B.A. and M.A. in Chemistry from Brandeis University in
Waltham, Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the California
Institute of Technology under the advisorship of Ahmed Zewail.
After spending two years in a postdoctoral position at the California
Institute of Technology, Professor Dantus joined the faculty at Michigan State
University in 1993. Currently, he
serves as a consultant for Total Power, Inc. and is the Founder and a Member of
the Board of Directors of KTM Industries, Inc.
Professor
Dantus’ research interests involve ultrafast dynamics, coherent laser control
of chemical reactions, and quantum computation.
He has received numerous awards and honors, which include a Beckman Young
Investigator Award, the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, an Eli
Lilly Teaching Fellowship, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and an
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Additionally,
he was featured in the 125th Anniversary Issue of Chemical and
Engineering News and was a plenary speaker at the 8th International
Workshop on Femtosecond Technology in Tsukuba, Japan.
Professor Dantus has over 60 publications and over 180 invited and
contributed presentations.
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