Steven T. Shipman
Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, December 2005.
Berkeley, CA
Rice University
B.A. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, May 1999.
Houston, TX
Professional Experience
Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry
2013–present
Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry
2008–2013
Division of Natural Sciences, New College of Florida.
Research interests: Microwave spectroscopy as a probe of chemical dynamics
Postdoctoral Research Associate
2006–2008
Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Brooks H. Pate
Ultrafast vibrational energy flow in gas and solution phases
Development and applications of chirped-pulse microwave spectroscopy
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Charles B. Harris
Ultrafast electron dynamics in thin molecular films
2002–2005
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Chemistry, UC-Berkeley.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Herbert L. Strauss
Infrared spectral holeburning in hydrogen-bonded molecular crystals
1999-2002
Teaching Experience
Courses Taught at New College of Florida
• General Chemistry I
• General Chemistry II
• Compressed Chemistry I
• Compressed Chemistry II
• Environmental Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry I - Quantum Mechanics
• Physical Chemistry II - Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems
• Physical Chemistry Lab
Selected Tutorials Sponsored at New College of Florida
• Astrochemistry and Microwave Spectroscopy
• Computational Chemistry
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• Genetic Algorithms with Applications to Spectroscopy
• Gender in Science
• History of Chemistry
• Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
• Practical Applications of Microcontrollers
• Spatial Reasoning Skills
• Statistical Mechanics
Selected ISPs Sponsored at New College of Florida
• Astrobiology: The Evolution and Architecture of Life
• Chemiluminescence in Glowsticks
• Circuits and Microprocessors in Fencing
• Computational Chemistry of Organic Reations
• Landfills and Soil Chemistry
• Minimizing Gen Chem Lab Waste
• Simple Sugars in Interstellar Space
• The Chemistry of Art Conservation
• The Chemistry of Photography
• Using Arduino Technology to Detect and Respond to Dolphins
Senior Theses Supervised at New College of Florida
Lauren Bernier (2014) “Design and evaluation of a chirped-pulse millimeter-wave
Fourier transform spectrometer operating from 110 to 170 GHz”
Erin Kent (2014) “Methods development for spectral simplification of room-temperature
rotational spectra”
Morgan McCabe (2014) “Chirped-pulse microwave spectroscopy of small molecules”
Suzanne Setti (2014) “Selective extraction of the herbicide prometon using magnetic molecularly imprinted nanoparticles”
Kenneth Wang (2014) “Enzymatic catalysis in beta-lactamases: Protonation states
of the catalytic triad”
Brittany Gordon (2013) “Waveguide chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave
spectroscopy of small alkylthiols”
Christian Metzger (2013) “Rotational spectroscopy of trans-isopropylamine and
2-(methoxy-13 C)-ethanol”
Maria Phillips (2013) “Pruning interstellar space: The rotational spectra of small
organic molecules”
Benjaminm Rooks (2013) “Theoretical kinetics calculations on reactions in the
interstellar medium”
Noah Anderson (2012) “Guerrilla clusters for science: The application of genetic
algorithms to spectroscopy”
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Ian Finneran (2011) “Microwave spectroscopy of small molecules with methyl rotors”
Kaitlin Lovering (2011) “Mn-doped (CdS)ZnS quantum dots as sensitizers for sensitized solar cells”
Benjamin Reinhold (2010) “Microwave spectroscopy of mono-substituted benzenes
at room temperature”
Publications
(Asterisks denote undergraduate authors.)
Nguyen, H.V.L.; Kleiner, I.; Shipman, S.T.; Mae, Y.; Hirose, K.; Hatanaka, S.;
Kobayashi, K. “Extension of the Measurement, Assignment, and Fit of the Rotational Spectrum of the Two-Top Molecule Methyl Acetate”, J. Mol. Spec., 2014,
299, 17.
Kolesniková, L.; Tercero, B.; Cernicharo, J.; Alonso, J.L.; Daly, A.M.; Gordon,
B.P.*; Shipman, S.T.; “Spectroscopic characterization and detection of Ethyl Mercaptan in Orion”, Astrophys. J. Lett., 2014,784, L7.
Kroll, J.A.*; Shipman, S.T.; Widicus Weaver, S.L. “The rotational spectrum of
methyl ethyl ketone in its ground vibrational state”, J. Mol. Spec., 2014,295, 52.
Finneran, I.A.*; Shipman, S.T.; Widicus Weaver, S.L. “Rotational spectroscopy
of 2-methylfuran from 8.7 to 960 GHz”, J. Mol. Spec., 2012, 280, 27.
Reinhold, B.*; Finneran, I.A.*; Shipman, S.T. “Room temperature chirped-pulse
Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy of anisole”, J. Mol. Spec., 2011, 270,
89.
Neill, J.L.; Shipman, S.T.; Alvarez-Valtierra, L.; Lesarri, A.; Kisiel, Z.; Pate, B.H.
“Rotational spectroscopy of iodobenzene and iodobenzene-neon with a direct digital 2-8 GHz chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectrometer”, J. Mol.
Spec., 2011, 269, 21.
Shipman, S.T. and Pate, B.H. “New Techniques in Microwave Spectroscopy” in
M. Quack & F. Merkt (Eds.), Handbook of High-Resolution Spectroscopy (Wiley),
2011, 801.
Shipman, S.T.; Neill, J.L.; Suenram, R.D.; Muckle, M.T.; Pate, B.H. “Structure
Determination of Strawberry Aldehyde by Broadband Microwave Spectroscopy:
Conformational Stabilization by Dispersive Interactions”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett.,
2011, 2, 443.
Lesarri, A.; Shipman, S.T.; Neill, J.L.; Brown, G.G.; Suenram, R.D.; Kang, L.;
Caminati, W.; Pate, B.H. “Interplay of phenol and isopropyl isomerism in propofol
from broadband chirped-pulse microwave spectroscopy,” J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
2010, 132, 13417.
Kisiel, Z.; Dorosh, O.; Maeda, A.; Medvedev, I.R.; De Lucia, F.C.; Herbst, E.;
Drouin, B.J.; Pearson, J.C.; Shipman, S.T. “Determination of precise relative energies of conformers of n-propanol by rotational spectroscopy,” Phys. Chem. Chem.
Phys., 2010, 12, 8329.
Kisiel, Z.; Krasnicki, A.; Pszczolkowski, L.; Shipman, S.T.; Alvarez-Valtierra, L.;
Pate, B.H. “Assignment and analysis of the rotational spectrum of bromoform
enabled by broadband FTMW spectroscopy” J. Mol. Spec., 2009, 257, 177.
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Suenram, R.D.; Pate, B.H.; Lessarri, A.; Neill, J.L.; Shipman, S.; Holmes, R.A.*;
Leyden, M.C.*; Craig, N.C. “Semiexperimental equilibrium structure for the C6
backbone of cis-1,3,5-hexatriene; Structural evidence for greater π-electron delocalization with increasing chain length in polyenes” J. Phys. Chem. A, 2009, 113,
1864.
Brown, G.G.; Dian, B.C.; Douglass, K.O.; Geyer, S.M.*; Shipman, S.T. and Pate,
B.H. “A broadband Fourier transform microwave spectrometer based on chirped
pulse excitation” Rev. Sci. Inst., 2008, 79, 053103.
Yang, A.; Shipman, S.T.; Garrett-Roe, S.; Johns, J.; Strader, M.L.; Szymanski,
P.; Muller, E.; Harris, C. “Two-photon photoemission of ultrathin film PTCDA
morphologies on Ag(111)” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112, 2506.
Strader, M.L.; Garrett-Roe, S.; Szymanski, P.; Shipman, S.T.; Johns, J.E.; Yang,
A.; Muller, E.; Harris, C.B. “The ultrafast dynamics of image potential state
electrons at the dimethylsulfoxide/Ag(111) interface” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008,
112, 6880.
Shipman, S.T.; Douglass, P.C.; Yoo, H.S.; Hinkle, C.E.*; Mierzejewski, E.L.*;
and Pate, B.H. “Vibrational dynamics of carboxylic acid dimers in gas and dilute
solution” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2007, 9, 4572.
Shipman, S.T.; Garrett-Roe, S.; Szymanski, P.; Yang, A.; Strader, M.L.; and Harris, C.B. “Determination of band curvatures by angle-resolved two-photon photoemission in thin films of C60 on Ag(111)” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 10002.
Garrett-Roe, S.; Shipman, S.T.; Szymanski, P.; Strader, M.L.; Yang, A.; and
Harris, C.B. “Ultrafast electron dynamics at metal interfaces: Intraband relaxation
of image state electrons as friction” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2005, 109, 20370.
Published as Steven T. Robertson
Robertson, S.T. and Strauss, H.L. “Assignment of invisible combination bands
in ammonium zinc Tutton salt by infrared hole burning” J. Phys. Chem. A 2003,
107, 4226.
Prilliman, S.G.; Kavanagh, A.M.; Scher, E.C.; Robertson, S.T.; Hwang, K.S.; and
Colvin, V.L. “An in-situ hot stage for temperature-dependent tapping-mode(TM)
atomic force microscopy” Rev. Sci. Inst. 1998, 69, 3245.
Oral Presentations
Bernier, L.* and Shipman, S. “Chirped-pulse spectroscopy from 110 - 170 GHz
with real-time digitizers” Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical
Society, Atlanta, GA, November 2013.
Shipman, S.T. “Chirped-Pulse Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy with
Real-Time Digitizers” From Stars to Life, Gainesville, FL, April 2013.
Shipman, S.T. “Techniques for Automated Analysis of Complex Spectra” Pittcon
2013, Philadelphia, PA, March 2013.
Shipman, S.T.; Finneran, I.A.*; Widicus Weaver, S.L.; van Wijngaarden, J. “Rotationally Resolved Spectra of 2-methylfuran from the cm-wave to the far IR” 67th
International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, OH, June 2012.
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Shipman, S.T.; Anderson, N.H.*; Finneran, I.A.* “Dealing with Complexity in Rotational Spectroscopy” Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition 2012, Innisbrook,
FL, May 2012.
Shipman, S.T. “Dealing with Complexity in Rotational Spectroscopy” Department
of Chemistry Seminar, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, February 24, 2012.
Shipman, S.T.; Kent, E.B.*; McCabe, M.N.*; Phillips, M.A.*; Gordon, B.P.*
“Waveguide Chirped-Pulse Fourier Transform Microwave (CP-FTMW) Spectrum
of Allyl Chloride” 66th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, OH, June 2011.
Shipman, S.T.; Finneran, I.A.* “Waveguide Chirped-Pulse Fourier Transform Microwave (CP-FTMW) Spectrum of Ortho-Fluorotoluene” 66th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, OH, June 2011.
Shipman, S.T.; Anderson, N.A.*; Finneran, I.A.*; McDonald, P.T. “Automating spectral assignment of room-temperature microwave spectra” Florida Annual
Meeting and Exposition 2011, Innisbrook, FL, May 2011.
Shipman, S.T. “Chirped-Pulse Fourier Transform Microwave (CP-FTMW) Spectroscopy from 2 to 298 K” Department of Chemistry Seminar, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL, October 12, 2010.
Shipman, S.T.; Reinhold, B.*; Kriegel, B.M.*; Finneran, I.A.*; Lang, S.L.* “Roomtemperature chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy: Rotational
spectra of molecules in excited vibrational states” American Chemical Society National Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2010.
Shipman, S.T.; Reinhold, B.*; Kriegel, B.M.*; Finneran, I.A.* “Chirped-pulse
Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy: Rotational spectra of molecules in excited vibrational states” Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition 2010, Innisbrook,
FL, May 2010.
Shipman, S.T. “Chirped-Pulse Fourier Transform Microwave (CP-FTMW) Spectroscopy from 2 to 298 K” Department of Chemistry Seminar, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, October 16, 2009.
Shipman, S.T.; Neill, J.L.; Muckle, M.T; Suenram, R.D.; Pate, B.H. “Chirped
pulse-Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy of ethyl 3-methyl-3-phenylglycidate
(strawberry aldehde)” 64th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy,
Columbus, OH, June 2009.
Shipman, S.T.; Nugent, K.M.*; Raud, R.* “Chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy: Variable temperature and pressure rotational spectroscopy
of methanol” Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition 2009, Kissimmee, FL, May
2009.
Shipman, S.T.; Alvarez-Valtierra, L.; Neill, J.L.; Pate, B.H.; Lesarri, A.; and
Kisiel, Z. “Design and performance of a direct digital chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave (CP-FTMW) spectrometer operating in the 2 - 8 GHz frequency
range” 63rd International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, OH,
June 2008.
Shipman, S.T.; Kroncke, B.; Pate, B.H.; Groner, P. “Waveguide chirped-pulse
Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy” 63rd International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
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Shipman, S.T.; Brown, G.G.; and Pate, B.H. “Vibrational anharmonic calculations
in electronic structure packages for applications in intramolecular dynamics” 62nd
International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, OH, June 2007.
Shipman, S.T. and Pate, B.H. “Flow of vibrational energy in polyatomic molecules:
Using acetylenic anharmonic couplings to follow vibrational dynamics” 62nd International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, OH, June 2007.
Shipman, S.T.; Douglass, P.C.; Mierzejewski, E.L*; Dian, B.C.; Hinkle, C.E.*;
Yoo, H.S.; and Pate, B.H. “Vibrational dynamics of cyclic acid dimers: trifluoroacetic acid in gas and dilute solutions” 61st International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, OH, June 2006.
Poster Sessions
Shipman, S.T.; Douglass, P.C.; Mierzejewski, E.L.*; and Pate, B.H. “IVR and
VER at high state densities: Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of vibrational overtones” American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco,
CA, September 10, 2006.
Shipman, S.T.; Douglass, P.C.; Mierzejewski, E.L.*; and Pate, B.H. “Ultrafast
hydrogen bond disruption of acid dimers” American Chemical Society National
Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10, 2006.
Shipman, S.T.; Douglass, P.C.; Mierzejewski, E.L.*; and Pate, B.H. “Vibrational
dynamics of cyclic acid dimers: Trifluoroacetic acid and formic acid in gas and
dilute solutions” Gordon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy, Portland, ME, July 2, 2006.
Shipman, S.T.; Szymanski, P.; Garrett-Roe, S.; Yang, A.; Strader, M.L.; and
Harris, C.B. “Femtosecond two-photon photoemission studies of C60 /Ag(111)”
American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 15, 2005.
Funding
“Next Generation Spectrometers for Rapid Analysis of Complex Mixtures” Office
of Naval Research, $260,032, December 2012 - December 2013.
“RUI: Pruning Interstellar Weeds with Room Temperature Chirped-Pulse Fourier
Transform Microwave (CP-FTMW) Spectroscopy” National Science Foundation,
$93,000, July 2011 - July 2014.
“MRI-R2: Development of a Cyber-enabled Third Generation Chirped-Pulse Fourier
Transform Microwave (CP-FTMW) Spectrometer” National Science Foundation,
submitted with B.H. Pate (lead PI) and D.W. Pratt (co-PI), $1,345,087, January
2010 - January 2013.
“Room-Temperature Chirped-Pulse Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy
for the Study of Radical Reaction Dynamics” American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund - Undergraduate New Investigator (ACS-PRF-UNI) Award,
$50,000, May 2009 - August 2011.
“Multi-Dimensional Rotational Spectroscopy of Molecules at Room Temperature”
Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Award, $46,546, May 2009 - August
2011.
Service
Committees at New College of Florida
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• Institutional Review Board (IRB) (Fall 2009 - Present)
• Gender Studies Steering Committee (Fall 2012 - Present)
• Natural Sciences Budget Committee (Fall 2012 - Present)
• Search committee, Visiting Assistant Professor in Computational Science
(Fall 2013 - Spring 2014)
• Search committee, Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics (Fall 2012)
• Search committee, Assistant Professor in Computational Science (Fall 2012)
• Search committee, Visiting Assistant Professor in Computer Science (Fall
2011 - Spring 2012)
• Search committee, Chemistry and Biology Lab Technicians (Fall 2009)
• Search committee, Visiting Assistant Professor in Physics (Spring 2009)
External Service
Session chair, 66th and 69th annual meetings of the International Symposium on
Molecular Spectroscopy (2011, 2014)
Member of organizing committee for workshop, “Molecular Spectroscopy in the
Era of Far-IR Astronomy,” October 2012 at Emory University
Grant Reviewer
• National Science Foundation
• Department of Energy
• American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
• Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Peer Reviewer
• Chemical Physics
• IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
• Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy
• Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
• Physical Review Letters
• Physical Review B
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