Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: (805) 893-5921
fax: (805) 893-4120
devries@chem.ucsb.edu
Education:
Ph. D. in Chemical Physics, University of Amsterdam, 1980.
M. Sc. in Nuclear Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1975.
B. Sc. in Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, 1971.
Research and Professional experience:
2000- Professor. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. University of California, Santa Barbara.
1997-2000: Associate Professor. Department of Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1985-1996: Research Staff member. IBM Almaden Research Laboratory.
1984-1985: Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland.
1980-1984: Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of California.
1975-1980: Research fellow, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1973-1975: Graduate Research, Accelerator facility, Weizmann Institute, Rechovot, Israel.
Fellow AAAS 2008
Humbolt Research fellowship for lifetime achievement, 2003
Guest Editor European Journal of Physics, 2002
Guest Editor Journal of the Israeli Chemical Society 2000
Guastalla Fellow 1997-2000.
Member Farkash Center for Light Induced Processes, Jerusalem 1997-2000
Member James Frank Institute, Jerusalem 1997-2000
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award 1996
IBM Outstanding Innovation award 1992
Member Executive Committee Western Spectroscopy Association.1990-1993
IBM Invention Achievement Award 1990
Member American Chemical Society
Member American Physical Society
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science