FORMER GROUP MEMBERS
This page is dedicated
to some of the former group members who have gone on to do great things.
Xueming Yang, Prof. Xueming Yang
graduated from Zhejiang Normal University of China in
1982, and received his M. Sc. from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1985
and 
Ph. D. from University of California
Santa Barbara, USA in 1991. He carried out
research on molecular reaction dynamics in Princeton University, Lawrence Berkeley
National 
Lab and University of California. He was appointed Associate
Fellow by Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences
(Taiwan) in 1995 and full Professor
in 2000. He was also appointed an Adjunct Professor by National Tsing Hua University. Since 2001 he has been
a Professor and Director of State Key Laboratory
for Molecular Dynamics at the Dalian Institute for Chemical Dynamics.
Nils Hansen
received his Ph.D. under the 
direction of Frederick
Temps at the Univeristy of Kiel and post-doc'd at
UCSB for 2.5 years. He became a permanent member of the Scientific Staff of the
Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratory
in Livermore California in 2003. At UCSB, he carried
out velocity map imaging experiments on ClN3, experiments that gave
the first evidence of photolytic production of cyclic N3. He is currently pursuing
research on VUV-photo-ionization mass spectrometric
analysis of flames. His work was recently featured on the cover of Science.
Marcel Drabbels:
Dr. Marcel Drabbels, born in Venray
(the Netherlands) 1966, studied
experimental phys 
ics at the University of Nijmegen and in 1993 obtained his
Ph.D. at that same university. He 
then moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara where he studied the dynamics
of highly vibrationally excited molecules and developed a new detection technique
to study the photodissociation of molecules. When he returned to the Netherlands in 1996 he joined the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam. There he worked on the
development of new types of infrared imaging and streak cameras. In 1997 Dr. Drabbels was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and he
moved to the Free University of Amsterdam. There he studied the collision dynamics
of molecules and initiated photodissociation experiments using ultrafast lasers. As of 1. October
1998 he has been appointed as MER at the Chemistry department
of the EPFL. Here he studies the dynamics of molecules
dissolved in superfluid helium droplets.
Oddur Ingolfsson At UCSB, he developed
a new means of mass spectrometry combining electron attachment with TOF mass spectrometry. After a short stint with a Santa Barbara start-up biotech
company, he took a position with a major Icelandic pharmaceutical firm. He has
since become a member of the Faculty at the Univeristy of Iceland.
Rienk Jongma studied physics at the University of Nijmegen. He finished his
undergraduate work in 1993 at the department of Molecular and Laser Physics.
His PhD work, finalized in 1997, was performed in this same department in
collaboration with the department of Solid State Physics. The main research
theme was molecular beam experiments and surface scattering studies with
electronically excited molecules. After obtaining his PhD degree, he worked for
two years as a post-doctoral associate at the University of California, Santa Barbara (US) on
atmospheric chemistry. Experiments at UCSB included mass-spectrometry on large water
clusters and collisional relaxation of highly vibrationally excited O2,
exploring its atmospheric significance. He then continued his work at the University of Muenster (Germany) supported by the Casimir-Ziegler research award of the Royal Netherlands Academy
of Science. In 2000, supported by another fellowship of the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Science, he became group leader of the "Cold Molecules" group
at the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics "Rijnhuizen", which was pioneering a novel method to manipulate,
decelerate, trap and store 
neutral dipolar
molecules. Since 2002, he has been working as a Senior Instrument Scientist at SRON Netherlands
Institute for Space Research, where he has the responsibility to extend experiments
on short-wave infrared focal plane arrays, available on the SCIAMACHY instrument as linear
arrays, to 2D-CMOS detectors. Recent work includes contributions to the in-flight
calibration facility for the OMI
instrument on EOS-Aura and for the SCIAMACHY instrument on ENVISAT.
In addition, he contributed with instrument simulations and sensitivity studies
to several (inter)national studies on new satellite missions.