Munira Khalil

Munira Khalil
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Colgate University
Scientific career
WorkplacesUniversity of Washington
ThesisA tale of coupled vibrations in solution told by coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2004)

Munira Khalil is an American chemist who is the Leon C. Johnson Professor of Chemistry and former department chair at the University of Washington.

Early life and education

Khalil attended Colgate University, where she majored in chemistry and English and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she developed coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to investigate the molecular structure of coupled vibrations on a picosecond timescale. Khalil then moved to the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher, where she was a Miller Research Fellow.

Research and career

In 2007, Khalili joined the University of Washington. In her research, she uses ultrafast spectroscopies to understand the structural dynamics of molecules. Photoinduced charge transfer depends on an interplay between atomic and electronic processes on multi-dimensional energy surfaces. She develops 3D electronic-vibrational femtosecond spectroscopies to understand vibrational and electronics motions on femtosecond timescales. In particular, she is interested in how solvents (e.g., water in photosynthesis) impact the electron transfer processes.

Khalil was appointed chair of the department of chemistry in 2020. In her 5-year term, she led the department through the COVID-19 pandemic, broadened shared governance, and spearheaded efforts for a new chemistry building.

Awards and honors

Selected publications

References

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  10. ↑ "Distinguished Young Scientists Selected to Participate in Kavli…". Kavli Foundation. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  11. ↑ "Munira Khalil, Shwetak Patel, and Bo Zhang were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships". UW Research. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  12. ↑ "Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program" (PDF). 2018.
  13. ↑ "Archives". ACS Technical Division. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  14. ↑ "Munira Khalil elected as APS Fellow". University of Washington. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  15. ↑ "20 UW researchers elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021". UW News. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  16. ↑ "Women Win Three of the Four Investigator Awards From the Brown Science Foundation". Women In Academia Report. 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2022-08-17.