Experience

• State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry

  Professor and Associate Chair

  Using the tools of physical and analytical chemistry to understand chemistry in reactive environments: the atmosphere, combustion, and plasmas.

• California Institute of Technology

  Postdoctoral Scholar

  Theodore worked at California Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Scholar

• SUNY-ESF

  Professor

  I started as an Assistant Professor in 1996. I obtained fairly steady funding from the National Science Foundation to investigate kinetics and mechanism of radical reactions important in atmospheric chemistry. This work funded the training of graduate students, undergraduate students, and postdocs. Recent research has involved studying the mechanism of electron beam degradation of organic pollutants in air and the kinetics of diesel (especially biodiesel) ignition. I have developed an interest in atmospheric mercury chemistry.

• SUNY-ESF

  Associate Professor

  Theodore worked at SUNY-ESF as a Associate Professor

• SUNY-ESF

  Assistant Professor

  Theodore worked at SUNY-ESF as a Assistant Professor

• Wayne State University

  postdoctoral researcher

  I investigated kinetics and mechanism of the atmospheric degradation of substitutes for freons (CFCs). This involved laser flash photolysis followed by classical or laser (UV or IR) spectroscopy to detect and quantify products of radical-molecule and radical-radical reactions. I also carried out quantum chemical calculations to investigate mechanisms, especially where experimental data on the radicals was limited.

• Purdue University

  Postdoctoral reseach associate

  I worked for Joseph S. Francisco, who had joint appointments in the Chemistry and Atmospheric Sciences Department, but spent most of my time with his collaborators at the Ford Motor Company Research Lab in Dearborn, MI.

• American Chemical Society

  Together with Tara Kahan at Syracuse University, I am organizing three half-day sessions on Environmental Chemistry at the 2015 NorthEast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. See http://nerm2015.sites.acs.org/ for details. As of today, there is still 1 week left to submit abstracts!