Veronica Vaida

Veronica Vaida
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Yale University
Notable awards	E. Bright Wilson Award (2011)

Veronica Vaida is an American physicist.

Biography

Veronica Vaida got her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1977 and the same year became a Xerox posdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Three years later she got an A. P. Sloan fellowship and four years later got a Camille and Henry Dreyfus teacher scholarship. In 1994 she got an Erskine fellowship from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She got two more fellowships in 2004, one of which was from American Association for the Advancement of Science and the other was from American Physical Society. She became a fellow for Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at the same Harvard from 2004-2005, and during the same years got another fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From 2007-2008 she was a distinguished lecturer at Sigma Xi and is currently a professor at University of Colorado Boulder.^[1]

Selected works

Since 1967 she has written or co-written research papers, including the following:^[2]

• Vaida V. (July 1967). "Studies concerning the specificity of antityphoid Vi bacteriophages isolated from water". 13(7). Z Gesamte Hyg.: 481–3.
• Vaida V; Simon J.D. (June 9, 1995). "The photoreactivity of chlorine dioxide". 268(5216). Science: 1443–8.
• Dobson CM, Ellison G.B.; Tuck AF; Vaida V. (October 24, 2000). "Atmospheric aerosols as prebiotic chemical reactors". 97(22). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.: 11864–8.
• Donaldson DJ, Tuck AF, Vaida V (June 2002). "The asymmetry of organic aerosol fission and prebiotic chemistry". 32(3). Orig. Life Evol. Biosph.: 237–45.
• Vaida V, Kjaergaard H.G.; Hintze PE; Donaldson DJ. (March 7, 2003). "Photolysis of sulfuric acid vapor by visible solar radiation". 299(5612). Science: 1566–8.
• Donaldson DJ, Tuck AF, Vaida V (December 2003). "Atmospheric photochemistry via vibrational overtone absorption". 103(12). Chem. Rev.: 4717–30.
• Donaldson DJ, Tervahattu H.; Tuck AF; Vaida V. (February 2004). "Organic aerosols and the origin of life: an hypothesis". 34(1-2). Orig. Life Evol. Biosph.: 57–67.
• Feierabend K.J.; Havey D.K; Vaida V. (October 2004). "Gas phase spectroscopy of HNO3 in the region 2000-8500 cm(-1)". 60(12). Spectrochim Acta A Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc.: 2775–81.
• Gilman JB, Eliason T.L.; Fast A; Vaida V. (December 1, 2004). "Selectivity and stability of organic films at the air-aqueous interface". 280(1). J. Colloid Interface Sci.: 234–43.
• Hintze PE, Feierabend K.J.; Havey DK; Vaida V. (February 2005). "High-resolution spectroscopy of H2SO4, HDSO4, and D2SO4 vapor in the region 1200-10,000 cm(-1)". 61(4). Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc.: 559–66.
• Feierabend KJ, Havey D.K.; Varner ME; Stanton JF; Vaida V. (March 28, 2006). "A comparison of experimental and calculated spectra of HNO3 in the near-infrared using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and vibrational perturbation theory". 124(12). J. Chem. Phys.: 124–323.
• Donaldson DJ, Vaida V (April 2006). "The influence of organic films at the air-aqueous boundary on atmospheric processes". 106(4). Chem. Rev.: 1445–61.
• Havey DK, Feierabend K.J.; Takahashi K; Skodje RT; Vaida V. (May 25, 2006). "Experimental and theoretical investigation of vibrational overtones of glycolic acid and its hydrogen bonding interactions with water". 110(20). J. Phys. Chem. A.: 6439–46.
• Klemperer W, Vaida V (July 11, 2006). "Molecular complexes in close and far away". 103(28). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.: 10584–8.
• Gilman JB, Vaida V (June 22, 2006). "Permeability of acetic acid through organic films at the air-aqueous interface". 110(24). J. Phys. Chem. A.: 7581–7.
• Lane JR, Kjaergaard H.G.; Plath KL; Vaida V. (June 28, 2007). "Overtone spectroscopy of sulfonic acid derivatives". 111(25). J. Phys. Chem. A.: 5434–40.
• Takahashi K, Kramer Z.C.; Vaida V; Skodje R.T. (August 7, 2007). "Vibrational overtone induced elimination reactions within hydrogen-bonded molecular clusters: the dynamics of water catalyzed reactions in CH2FOH.H2On". 9(29). Phys Chem Chem Phys.: 864–71.
• Rontu N, Vaida V (January 17, 2008). "Vibrational spectroscopy of perfluorocarboxylic acids from the infrared to the visible regions". 112(2). J. Phys. Chem. B: 276–82.
• Lane JR; Vaida V; Kjaergaard H.G. (January 21, 2008). "Calculated electronic transitions of the water ammonia complex". 128(3). J. Chem. Phys.: 034302.
• Takahashi K, Plath K.L.; Skodje RT; Vaida V. (August 14, 2008). "Dynamics of vibrational overtone excited pyruvic acid in the gas phase: line broadening through hydrogen-atom chattering". 112(32). J. Phys. Chem. A.: 7321–31.
• Dunn ME, Shields GC, Takahashi K.; Skodje RT; Vaida V. (October 16, 2008). "Experimental and theoretical study of the OH vibrational spectra and overtone chemistry of gas-phase vinylacetic acid". 112(41). J Phys Chem A.: 10226–35.
• Vaida V. (January 8, 2009). "Spectroscopy of photoreactive systems: implications for atmospheric chemistry". 113(1). J. Phys. Chem. A.: 5–18.
• Miller BJ, Howard DL, Lane J.R.; Kjaergaard HG; Dunn ME; Vaida V. (July 2, 2009). "SH-stretching vibrational spectra of ethanethiol and tert-butylthiol". 113(26). J. Phys. Chem. A.: 7576–83.
• Plath KL, Takahashi K.; Skodje RT; Vaida V. (July 2, 2009). "Fundamental and overtone vibrational spectra of gas-phase pyruvic acid". 113(26). J. Phys. Chem. A.: 7294–303.
• Axson JL; Takahashi K.; De Haan DO; Vaida V. (April 13, 2010). "Gas-phase water-mediated equilibrium between methylglyoxal and its geminal diol". 107(15). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.: 6687–92.
• Takahashi K, Plath K.L.; Axson JL; Nelson GC; Skodje RT; Vaida V. (March 7, 2010). "Dynamics and spectroscopy of vibrational overtone excited glyoxylic acid and 2,2-dihydroxyacetic acid in the gas-phase". 132(9). J. Chem. Phys.: 094305.
• Donaldson DJ, George C, Vaida V (July 15, 2010). "Red sky at night: long-wavelength photochemistry in the atmosphere". 44(14). Environ. Sci. Technol.: 5321–6.
• Miller BJ, Yekutiel M, Sodergren AH; Howard DL; Dunn ME; Vaida V. (December 9, 2010). "Kjaergaard HG. Overtone spectra of 2-mercaptoethanol and 1,2-ethanedithiol". 114(48). J. Phys. Chem. A.: 12692–700.
• Vaida V. (July 14, 2011). "Perspective: Water cluster mediated atmospheric chemistry". 135(2). J. Chem. Phys.: 020901.
• Larsen MC, Vaida V (June 21, 2012). "Near infrared photochemistry of pyruvic Acid in aqueous solution". 116(24). J Phys Chem A.: 5840–6.
• Kahan TF, Washenfelder RA.; Vaida V; Brown SS. (June 21, 2012). "Cavity-Enhanced Measurements of Hydrogen Peroxide Absorption Cross Sections from 353 to 410 nm". 116(24). J Phys Chem A.: 5941–7.
• Griffith EC, Tuck AF, Vaida V (December 18, 2012). "Ocean-atmosphere interactions in the emergence of complexity in simple chemical systems". 45(12). Acc. Chem. Res.: 2106–13.
• Kramer ZC, Takahashi K.; Vaida V; Skodje RT. (April 28, 2012). "Will water act as a photocatalyst for cluster phase chemical reactions? Vibrational overtone-induced dehydration reaction of methanediol". 136(16. J. Chem. Phys.: 164302.
• Griffith EC, Adams E.M.; Allen HC; Vaida V. (July 12, 2012). "Hydrophobic Collapse of a Stearic Acid Film by Adsorbed l-Phenylalanine at the Air-Water Interface". 116(27). J. Phys. Chem. B: 7849–57.
• Griffith EC, Vaida V (September 25, 2012). "In situ observation of peptide bond formation at the water-air interface". 109(39). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.: 15697–701.
• Griffith EC, Vaida V (January 16, 2013). "Ionization state of l-Phenylalanine at the Air-Water Interface". 135(2). J. Am. Chem. Soc.: 710–6.

References

1. "Biography". University of Colorado. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
2. "Publications". Retrieved June 15, 2013.