Hyotcherl Ihee
Department of
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The University of
Chicago
920 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: (773) 702-1801
Fax: (773) 702-0439 hihee257@yahoo.com
Ph.D.,
Chemistry June, 2001
California
Institute of Technology
·
GPA:
4.00 / 4.00
B.S.,
Chemistry February, 1994
Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
·
GPA:
4.09 / 4.30
·
Graduated
with highest honors (2nd out of 550 graduates)
Postdoctoral
Scholar
2001
University
of Chicago
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Advisor: Prof. K. Moffat
·
Applied
time-resolved macromolecular x-ray crystallography to study, in real time, the
structural dynamics of photoactive protein kinases.
Postdoctoral
Scholar
2001
California
Institute of Technology
Research Advisor: Prof. A. H. Zewail
·
Developed
and applied novel analysis methods for ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) to
determine the molecular structures of transient species in various chemical
reactions initiated by femtosecond laser pulses in real time.
Graduate
Research Assistant
1994 - 2001
California
Institute of Technology
Research Advisor: Prof. A. H. Zewail
Research Collaborator: Prof. W. A.
Goddard, III
·
Developed
and applied techniques using ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) to directly
image, in real time, the structural dynamics of various chemical reactions
initiated by femtosecond laser pulses; reactions studied involved
organohalides, organometallic compounds, and cyclic hydrocarbon polyenes.
·
Participated
in the design and construction of a UED apparatus.
·
Utilized
UED to determine the molecular structures of transient species.
·
Studied
structures and properties of ground state molecules and transient species using
ab initio quantum mechanical
calculations.
·
Developed
a data analysis software package for Windows 98 written in Visual C++.
[1] “Clustering of platinum atoms in zeolite EMT
supercage: Comprehensive physicochemical characterization”, Ihee, H.;
Bécue, T.; Ryoo, R.; Potvin, C.; Manoli, J.-M.; Djéga-Mariadassou, G. Zeolites and Related Microporous Materials:
State of the Art 1994, 84, 765-772.
[2] “129Xe Nuclear magnetic resonance
study on a solid-state defect in HZSM-5 zeolite”, Ryoo, R.; Ihee, H.;
Kwak, J. H.; Seo, G.; Liu, S.-B. Microporous
Materials 1995, 4, 59-64.
[3] “Clocking transient chemical changes by ultrafast electron
diffraction”, Williamson, J. C.; Cao, J.; Ihee, H.; Frey, H.; Zewail, A.
H. Nature 1997, 386, 159-162.
[4] “Ultrafast electron diffraction: structures in dissociation dynamics
of Fe(CO)5”, Ihee, H.; Cao, J.; Zewail, A. H. Chem. Phys. Lett. 1997, 281, 10-19.
[5] “Ultrafast electron diffraction: determination of radical structure
with picosecond time resolution”, Cao, J.; Ihee, H.; Zewail, A. H. Chem. Phys. Lett. 1998, 290, 1-8.
[6] “Ultrafast electron diffraction and direct observation of transient
structures in a chemical reaction”, Cao, J.; Ihee, H.; Zewail, A. H. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 1999, 96, 338-342.
[7] “Conformations and barriers of haloethyl radicals (CH2XCH2,
X = F, Cl, Br, I): Ab Initio Studies”, Ihee, H.; Zewail, A. H.; Goddard,
W. A., III. J. Phys. Chem. A 1999, 103, 6638-6649.
[8] “Direct imaging of transient molecular structures with ultrafast
diffraction”, Ihee, H.; Lobastov, V. A.; Gomez, U. M.; Goodson, B. M.;
Srinivasan, R.; Ruan, C.-Y.; Zewail, A. H. Science
2001, 291, 458-462.
[9] “Ultrafast electron diffraction of transient Fe(CO)4:
Determination of molecular structure and reaction pathway”, Ihee, H.;
Cao, J.; Zewail, A. H. Angew. Chem., Int.
Ed. Engl. 2001, 40, 1532-1536.
[10] “CF2XCF2X and CF2XCF2
radicals (X = Cl, Br, I): Ab initio studies and comparison with experiments”, Ihee,
H.; Kua, J.; Goddard, W. A., III.; Zewail, A. H. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2001,
105, 3623-3632.
[11] “Ultrafast diffraction and structural dynamics: The nature of
complex molecules far from equilibrium”, Ruan, C.-Y.; Lobastov, V. A.;
Srinivasan, R.; Goodson, B. M.; Ihee, H.; Zewail, A. H. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 2001, 98, 7117-7122.
[12] “Ultrafast electron diffraction and structural dynamics: Transient
intermediates in the elimination reaction of C2F4I2”,
Ihee, H.; Goodson, B. M.; Srinivasan, R.; Lobastov, V. A.; Zewail, A. H.
J. Phys. Chem. A, submitted for
publication.
[13] “Ultrafast electron diffraction of transient cyclopentadienyl
radical: A dynamic pesudorotary structure”, Ihee, H.; Feenstra, J. S.;
Cao, J.; Zewail, A. H. Chem. Phys. Lett.,
submitted for publication.
Teaching
Assistant
1994 - 1999
California
Institute of Technology
· General Chemistry (Prof. N.
Lewis).
· The Physical Description of
Physical Systems (Prof. J. Baldeschwieler).
· The Dynamics of the Chemical
Bond (Prof. A. Zewail).
· Nonequilibrium Statistical
Mechanics (Prof. R. Marcus).
· Spectroscopy (Prof. A.
Zewail).
· Molecular Spectra and
Molecular Structure (Prof. M. Okumura).
· Extensive hands-on
experience with amplified Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser systems and colliding
pulse mode-locking ring dye laser systems.
· Knowledge of instrumentation
and data acquisition using CCD detection systems.
· Proficiency in C, C++, and
Visual C++ programming languages.
· Extensive hands-on
experience with high-vacuum system.
· Extensive experience with ab initio quantum calculation packages
including Gaussian 98 and Jaguar 3.5.
· American Chemical Society 1994
- present
· American Physical Society 1996
- present
· American Association for the
Advancement of Science 1998
- present