FACULTY NAME Dr. Michael A. Duncan Franklin Professor and Regents’ Professor of Chemistry EDUCATION B.S. Chemistry, 1976, Furman University (w/ Prof. Lon B. Knight) Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, 1982, Rice University (w/ Prof. Richard E. Smalley, Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1996) NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, 1981-1983, JILA, National Bureau of Standards & University of Colorado (w/ Prof. Stephen R. Leone) OCCUPATION University of Georgia Faculty Member, 1983 - present AWARDS AND HONORS Fellow, American Physical Society, 2001 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004 National Science Foundation Creativity Award, 2006 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, 2007- present American Chemical Society, Physical Division, Award for Experimental Physical Chemistry, 2011 University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd Award, 2011 Senior Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1998 - 2015. Chair, Physical Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society, 2019 Fellow, American Chemical Society, 2021 RESEARCH INTERESTS Laser Spectroscopy Ions and Ion-Molecule Clusters Metal Ion-Molecular Complexes Carbocations Astrochemistry Proton Transfer Intermediates Supersonic Molecular Beams Metal Clusters Photodissociation Mass Spectrometry Photofragment Imaging
