Albert J. R. Heck

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I was born , in 1964, and raised in the Netherlands in a town called Goes. If you do not know how beautiful Holland looks like just look.

I did my undergraduate work in chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. I did my graduate research at the Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Universiteit van Amsterdam with Prof. N N. M. Nibbering. Research projects included the characterization of hypervalently coordinated ions tandem- and Fourier-transform Ion Cyclotron Mass Spectrometry. Ireceived my Ph.D in February 1993. Following graduation I spent a few months as a researcher at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany where I worked on photoionization of transition metal carbonyls using the BESSY synchrotron source. Since August 1993 I have been affiliated with Stanford University and Sandia National Laboratories. Do you really want to see my list of publications? For serious job offers you can even look at my resume.

I like to spend as much time as possible outdoors and enjoy biking and hiking very much.

Resume

Education

• 1983-1986 Undergraduate chemistry study at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam
• 1987 Teaching assistent in Physics at the University of Roma in Lesotho, Africa. Teaching language was English.
• 1988-1989 Continuation of undergraduate chemistry study at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
  Date of graduation: January 18th 1989, Exam subjects: Physical Chemistry with Prof. M. Glasbeek, working on ODMR (optically detected magnetic resonance) and Theoretical chemistry with Prof. E. Baerends, working on theoretical calculations.
• February 1989 - February 1993
  Graduate research at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, research-supervisor Prof. Dr. N. M. M. Nibbering at the Instituut voor Massaspectrometrie. Date of graduation: February 12th 1993. Title thesis:
  Gas-phase Chemistry of Hypervalently Coordinated Carbonium Ions
• February-April 1993
  Visiting Scientist at the Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin GmbH, working with Prof. A. Ding at the BESSY synchrotron radiation source studying photoionization dynamics of metalcarbonyls and in Leipzig working on mass spectrometric studies on fullerenes and fluorinated fullerenes.
• May 1993 Recipient NWO/NATO award; fellowship for one year to work in the group of Prof. Dr. R.N. Zare, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University.
• June 1993 - present
  Visiting scientist at Stanford in the group of Prof. Dr. R.N. Zare, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, USA and at Sandia National Laboratory, in the group of Dr. D.W. Chandler. The main reseach topic is fundamental gas-phase reaction dynamics using laser- and ion-imaging techniques.
• July 1994 Recipient Associated Western Universities (AWU) award; fellowship for a year to work at Stanford and Sandia National Laboratories.

Publications

1991:
Electron-capture-induced decomposition of the supposed ethane dication T. Drewello, A. J. R. Heck and N. M. M. Nibbering Chem. Phys. Lett. 178 (1991) 285-288.

On the structure of protonated methane A. J. R. Heck, L. J. de Koning and N. M. M. Nibbering J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2 (1991) 453-458.

On the structure and unimolecular chemistry of protonated halomethanes A. J. R. Heck, L. J. de Koning and N. M. M. Nibbering Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes 109 (1991) 209-225.

Mass-specific selection of ions in Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Unintentional off-resonance cyclotron excitation of selected ions A. J. R. Heck, L. J. de Koning, F. A. Pinkse and N. M. M. Nibbering Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 5 (1991) 406-414.

1992:
Chemical behavior of the gas-phase pentacoordinated carbonium ion C2H7+ A. J. R. Heck, L. J. de Koning and N. M. M. Nibbering Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes 117 (1992) 145-169.

Translational energy-resolved collisionally activated methyl cation transfer from protonated methane to argon, krypton and xenon and from protonated fluoromethane to argon and molecular oxygen A. J. R. Heck, L. J. de Koning and N. M. M. Nibbering J. Phys. Chem. 96 (1992) 8870-8876.

1993:
Gas phase bimolecular chemistry of isomeric cyclic ethylenehalonium and a-haloethyl cations A. J. R. Heck, L. J. de Koning and N. M. M. Nibbering Org. Mass Spectrom. 28 (1993) 235-244.

Formation of isomeric ethylenehalonium and a-haloethyl cations and the role of ion/neutral complexes in the decomposition of protonated b-haloethanols A. J. R. Heck, L. J. de Koning and N. M. M. Nibbering Org. Mass Spectrom. 28 (1993) 245-253.

Gas-phase Chemistry of Hypervalently Coordinated Carbonium Ions A. J. R. Heck, Thesis Universiteit van Amsterdam (1993).

1995:
Gas phase bimolecular chemistry of isomeric C3H6Br+ cations A. J. R. Heck and N. M. M. Nibbering J. Am. Chem. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 6 (1995) 11-18.

Two-color resonant-enhanced four-wave-mixing spectroscopy of ammonia M. N. R. Ashfold, D. W. Chandler, C. C. Hayden, R. I. McKay and A. J. R. Heck Chem. Phys. (in press)

Imaging techniques for the study of chemical reaction dynamics A. J. R. Heck and D. W. Chandler Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 46 (1995) 335-72

D2 E, F 1Sg+ (v'=0 and 1) - X 1Sg+(v"=0-5) transition frequencies for J'=J" = 0-26: Comparison of Experiment and Theory A. J. R. Heck, W. M. Huo, R. N. Zare and D. W. Chandler J. Mol. Spectroscopy (in press)

Photoionization dynamics and charge separation reactions of iron penta-, ennea- and dodecacarbonyl complexes induced by photoabsorption in the 20-110 eV energy range. A. J. R. Heck, T. Drewello, M. Fieber-Erdmann, R. Weckwerth and A. Ding J. Chem. Phys. (in press)

Photofragment Ion Imaging of Kr2 and ArKr van der Waals molecules Competition between predissociation and ionization in two-photon excited electronic states A. J. R. Heck, D. W. Neyer, R. N. Zare and D. W. Chandler J. Phys. Chem. (submitted)

in preparation:

Reaction Product Imaging of D + DI Æ D2 + I at 1.8 and 2.7 eV collision energies A. J. R. Heck, R. I. McKay, R. N. Zare, D. W. Chandler

Photoionization dynamics and charge separation reactions of Cr-, Mo- and W- pentacarbonyl complexes induced by photoabsorption in the 20-110 eV energy range. A. J. R. Heck, T. Drewello, M. Fieber-Erdmann, R. Weckwerth and A. Ding.

Gas phase experiments with highly fluorinated fullerenes T. Drewello, A. J. R. Heck, K.-D. Asmus, M. Fieber-Erdmann, A. Ding, M. Kempf, J. Müller, M. Möder, R. Herzschuh.

Photofragment Ion Imaging of Methane H and H2 elimination following absorption in the VUV A. J. R. Heck, R. N. Zare and D. W. Chandler

Ionization and dissociation of H2 in intense laser fields studied by photofragment ion imaging D. W. Chandler, A. J. R. Heck and D. W. Neyer

Presentations

December 1989 Posterpresentation at the annual meeting of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Massaspectrometrie in Sittard (The Netherlands, NL) (Dutch Mass Spectrometric Society)

October 1990 Two oral presentations at the Netherlands-Northrhine-Westfalian Seminar on Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry and ICR-Mass Spectrometry in Bielefeld (Germany)

December 1990 Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Dutch Scientific Society of Physical Organic Chemistry in Lunteren (NL)

September 1991 Poster presentation at the 12th International Mass Spectrometry Conference in Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

December 1991 Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Massaspectrometrie in Amsterdam (NL)

December 1991 Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Dutch Scientific Society of Physical Organic Chemistry in Lunteren (NL)

June 1992 Poster presentation at the 40th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference in Washington DC (USA)

February 1993 Oral presentation and poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Dutch Scientific Society of Physical Organic Chemistry in Lunteren (NL)

March 1993 Oral presentation at the meeting of the Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft in Berlin (Germany)

March1993 Invited oral presentation (invited by Prof. K.-D. Asmus) at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin (Germany)

May 1993 Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Molecular Beams in Berlin (Germany)

January 1994 Poster presentation at the 41th Western Spectroscopy Conference in Asilomar (USA)

March 1994 Poster presentation at the American Chemical Society Meeting in San Diego (USA)

November 1994 Oral presentation at the Nederlandse Natuurkundigen Vereniging in Lunteren (NL)

November 1994 Oral presentation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands), guest of Prof. S. Stolte

November 1994 Oral presentation at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (The Netherlands), guest of Prof. D. Parker

January 1995 Poster presentation at the 42nd Western Spectroscopy Conference, in Asilomar (USA)

February 1995 Two poster presentations at the Gordon Conference on the Structure, Dynamics and Energetics of Gaseous Ions, in Ventura (USA)

July 1995 Two poster presentations at the 1995 Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions in Pacific Grove (USA)

Other activities

• September 1984-September 1986 student member of the Chemistry board Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• September 1985-December 1986 student member of the Science board Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• chairman of the organizing committee of the first 'job-market day' (October 1986) for chemists of the Vrije Universiteit and Universiteit van Amsterdam
• January 1985-September 1986 chairman excursion committee VCSVU (student board of chemical students at the Vrije Universiteit)
• December 1986-September 1987, teaching-assistant Physics in Lesotho, Africa
• January 1990-July 1992, teaching-job in undergraduate Physical Chemistry
• January 1992-February 1993 student member of the committee for research development in chemistry at the Universiteit van Amsterdam