Research

Main areas of research: Thermodynamics, quantum transport, nanochemistry, molecular electronics

Tamar Seideman is a chemist. Her main areas of research are focused on quantum transport, molecular electronics and nanochemistry.

She is considered a pioneer in the field of quantum transport, which she has advanced primarily through foundational theoretical concepts. She thus developed a new approach to coherent controls both for electronic transport as well as for the oscillation dynamics in molecular nodes. The approach is based on molecular-scale semiconductor electronics and the use of low-frequency sub bandgap light.

Seideman´s research is also devoted to coherent control and coherence spectroscopies in isolated molecules and dissipative media as well as the interaction of matter with intense laser fields. Moreover, she has developed new theoretical strategies that could lead to better control of the attributes of nanoscale devices and thereby to improve their functionality. This research is based on molecular and nanoscale electronics.

Career

• since 2014 Dow Chemical Company professor for chemistry and professor for physics, Northwestern University, USA
• since 2004 Professor for chemistry and professor for physics, Northwestern University, USA
• since 2003 Professor for chemistry, Northwestern University, USA
• 1999‐2003 Senior Research Officer, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• 1998‐2003 Cross‐appointed professor of chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, USA
• 1996‐1999 Associate Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• 1996‐1998 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queen's University, USA
• 1993‐1996 Assistant Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• 1992‐1993 Principal Investigator, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, USA
• 1990‐1992 Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow and Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 1986‐1989 Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
• 1983‐1985 Master studies in physical chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
• 1980‐1982 Bachelor studies of chemistry at the Tel Aviv University, Ramat‐Aviv, Israel

Functions

• since 2014 Director of international activities at the Material Research Center, Northwestern University, USA
• since 2013 Member of the Willard Gibbs Award Jury
• since 2011 Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society, Division of Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
• since 2010 Member of the Committee, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences of the US Academy of Science
• 2009-2013 Editorial Board member of the Journal of Chemical Physics
• since 2008 Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society, Division of Chemical Physics
• 2006-2012 Associate Editor of the Physical Review Letters
• 2006-2009 Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Physical Chemistry
• 2005‐2008 Chair of the Physical Chemistry Division, Northwestern University, USA

Projects

• 2015-2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) project “Coherent and Incoherent Control in Material Systems“
• 2010-2014 NSF project “Optical Control of Transport and Dynamics in Junctions“
• 2006-2010 NSF project “Coherent Control and Coherence Spectrocopies in Complex Systems“
• 2003-2007 NSF project “Current-Triggered Dynamics in Molecular-Scale Devices“

Honours and Memberships

• 2015-2018 Weston Professorship, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel
• 2013 Mildred Dresselhaus Award for Senior Scientists
• since 2011 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2011 Sackler Award
• 2011 Weizmann Institute Visiting Professor Fellowship, Rehovot, Israel
• 2008 Distinguished Lecturer, Windsor University, Canada
• 2007‐2009 Weston Professorship
• 2004‐2008 Research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation