Bruce S. Brunschwig

MBI, Director of MMRC California Institute of Technology Mail Code 139-74 Pasadena, CA 91125 Office: BI 313 Telephone: 626-395-2420 Contact info BSB at Caltech.edu

• Studies of homogeneous and heterogeneous thermal and photoinduced electron-transfer reactions.
• Dark and light induced electron transfer between semiconductors and redox couples in solution.
• Kinetics and mechanism of the oxidation and reduction of water to produce dihydrogen and dioxygen.
• XPS and FTIR studies of semiconductor surfaces.
• Spectroscopy of charge-transfer transitions in solution and on semiconductor nanoparticles.
• Models for electron-transfer reactions.
• Quantum chemistry calculations of Transition-metal complexes.
• Artificial photosynthesis.
• Passivation of semiconductor surfaces.
• Development and computerization of instrumentation.
• Vapor sensors arrays - artificial nose.

• A.B. Chemistry University of Rochester, 1966
• Ph.D. Physical Chemistry Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 1972

• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Hofstra University, 8/72-8/79;
• Research Collaborator, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 6/74-8/77
• Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Hofstra University 1/76-1/78
• Visiting Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 9/77-1/79
• Associate Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 9/79-9/82
• Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 10/82-12/02
• Visiting Scientist, California Institute of Technology, 9/91-1/92
• Senior Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 12/02-8/04;
• Beckman Institute of California Institute of Technology, 2/03-present