Biography:
Professional Experience:
- Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, 2005 - present
- Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, 2003 - present
- Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, 1996 - present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, 1993 - present
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, 1987 - 1993
Education:
- Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
- B.S., Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 1982
Teaching Interests:
- Quantum mechanics
- Molecular spectroscopy
- Kinetics
- Introductory chemistry
Awards:
Research Interests:
- Fluorescence spectroscopy of free radicals
- Non-linear optical methods
- Flash photolysis
Selected Publications:
- T. B. Settersten, B. D. Patterson, and J. A. Gray, "Temperature- and species-dependent quenching of NO A2S+ (v'=0) probed by two-photon laser-induced fluorescence using a picosecond laser", J. Chem. Phys. 124, 234308 (2006)
- J. A. Gray, T. B. Settersten, and R. L. Farrow, "Coherent Infrared-Ultraviolet Double-Resonance Spectroscopy of CH3", Chem. Phys. Lett. 370, 204 (2003)
- M. G. Comstock, J. R. Kerr, and J. A. Gray, "Two-Photon Ionization Spectroscopy of Alkali Atoms in Flames", J. Chem. Educ. 79, 500 (2002)
- J. A. Gray, "A shock tube with tunable, pulsed laser-based diagnostics", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 61, 1825 (1990)
- J. A. Gray, S. F. Rice, and R. W. Field, "The Electric Dipole Moment of NiH X2D5/2 and B2D5/2", J. Chem. Phys. 82, 4717 (1985)
- N. J. Dunn, W. H. Humphries IV, A. R. Offenbacher, T. L. King, and J. A. Gray, "pH-dependent cis ® trans isomerization rates for azobenzene dyes in aqueous solution", invited manuscript submitted to J. Phys. Chem. A
