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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
• Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1986-1997
• Willis F. Harrington Professor, 1990-present
• Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1993-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
• Arts and Science Distinguished Scholar, 1997

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
First Vice Chair, 1998
Chair, 1999
• 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. Julia Laskin Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr. Helen deClercq Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr. Michelle Byrd Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr. Atish D. Sen Postdoctoral Researcher
• Rahul Chawla Graduate Student
• Xuedong Zhao Graduate Student
• Sergei Rakov Graduate Student
• Dr. Eduard Dennison Visiting Professor
• Tom Bailey, Graduate Student

Publications

since 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).
• "Tandem Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Studies of Surface-induced Dissociation of Benzene Monomer and Dimer on Sel-fassembled Fluorinated Alkanethiolate Monolayer Studies," W. Zhong, E.N. Nikolaev, J.H. Futrell, and V.H. Wysocki, Anal. Chem., 69, 2496 (1997).
• "Unimolecular and Collision Induced Dissociation of CS₂⁺⁺ with Ar at High Collision Energy," X.D. Zhou, A. K. Shukla, R. E. Tosh, and J. H. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spec. And Ion Proc., 160, 49-62 (1997).
• "Collision Induced Dissociation of the Enolic Acetone Cation: Evidence for Nonergodic Behavior," R. Zhao, A. K. Shukla, R.E. Tosh, and J. H. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spec. And Ion Proc., 167/168, 317-333 (1997).
• "Fourier Transform Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometer," E.N. Nikolaev, V.S. Rakov, R.E. Tosh, A.K. Shukla, and J.H. Futrell, ICR/Ion Trap Newsletter (1997).
• "Collision-Induced Dissociation of Low Energy Benzene Ions," R. Chawla, A. Shukla, and J. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spec And Ion Proc., 165/166, 237-247 (1997).
• "Detection of Isoprene in Expired Air from Human Subjects Using Proto-transfer-reaction Mass Spectrometry," J. Taucher, A. Hansel, A. Jordan, R. Fall, J.H. Futrell, and W. Lindinger, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 11, 1230-1234 (1997).
• "Impulsive Excitation in Collision-Induced Dissociation Reactions of Polyatomic Cations," A.K. Shukla and J.H. Futrell, European Mass Spectrometry, 3, 259-270 (1997).
• "Collision Induced Dissociation of Methyl Nitrite Cation," R. Zhao, A. K. Shuka, and J. H. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spec. And Ion Proc., (in press 1998).
• Collision-Induced Dissociation of CO₂⁺ Cations: Evidence for a Long-Lived Excited State," R. Chawla, M. Krisnamurthy, A.K. Shukla, and J.H. Futrell, Chem. Phys. Letters (in press, 1998).
• "A Molecular Beam Study of Surface Induced Dissociation Reactions of Perfluoro-alkanes with Hydrocarbon Monolayers on Stainless Steel," T. Maerk, C. Mann, and J.H. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spec. And Ion Proc., (in press, 1998).
• "Molecular Recognition in Gas Phase Ion Molecule Association Reactions," E. Nikolaev, E. Denisov, and J.H. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spec. And Ion Proc., (in press, 1998).
• "Energy Deposition in Multiple Collisional Activation of Ions in SORI-FTMS," W. Zhong, V. Wysocki, and J.H. Futrell, Int. J. Mass Spec And Ion Proc., (submitted, 1998).