Degree Information:

B.S., Marquette University, 1992
Magna Cum Laude
M.S., Cornell University, 1995
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1998

Teaches:

Physical Chemistry I, II, III (Chem 151, Chem 152, Chem 153)

Research:

Emission Spectroscopy
Photofragment Translational Spectroscopy
Flight Spectroscopy
Sonoluminescence

Active Grants:

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, "Start-Up Grant for Faculty at Undergraduate Institutions", 2000-2003, $20,000.

National Science Foundation, "Research Experience for Undergraduates at Santa Clara University", 5/1/02-4/31/05, $159,000.

Recent Publications:

J. A. Mueller, B. F. Parsons, L. J. Butler, F. Qi, O. Sorkhabi, and A. G. Suits, "Competing Isomeric Product Channels in the 193 nm Photodissociation of the 2-Propenyl Radical," J. Chem. Phys. 114, 4505 (2001).

J. A. Mueller, J. L. Miller, L. J. Butler, F. Qi, O. Sorkhabi, and A. G. Suits, "Internal Energy Dependence of the H+Allene/H+Propyne Product Branching from the Unimolecular Dissociation of 2-Propenyl Radicals," J. Phys. Chem. A 104, 11261 (2000).

J. A. Mueller, S. L. Curry, M. L. Morton, and L J. Butler, "Intersystem Crossing and Nonadiabatic Product Channels in the Photodissociation of N₂O₄ at 193 nm," J. Phys. Chem. A 104, 4825 (2000).

J. D. Geiser, S. M. Dylewski, J. A. Mueller, R. J. Wilson, B.-Y. Chang, R. C. Hoetzlein, and P. L. Houston, "Improvements in the Product Imaging Technique and Their Application to Ozone Photodissociation", ACS Symposium Series 770 (Imaging in Chemical Dynamics), 34-55 (2000).

J. D. Geiser, S. M. Dylewski, J. A. Mueller, R. J. Wilson, R. Toumi, and P. L. Houston, "The Vibrational Distribution of O₂ (X ³Σ_g¯) Produced in the Photodissociation of Ozone Between 226 and 240 and at 266 nm," J. Chem. Phys. 112, 1279 (2000).

Recent Presentations:

New laser Scientists Symposium, Optical Society of America (joint national meeting with the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society), Long Beach, California, 2001.

Western Spectroscopy Society Annual Meeting, Pacific Grove, California, 2001.

American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, 2000.

Marquette University, Milwaukee, invited seminar, 2000.

Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, Split Rock, Pennsylvania, 1999.