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Dr. James Reilly
http://www.chem.indiana.edu/personnel/faculty/reilly/reilly.htm

Born in New York, Jim Reilly grew up and attended high school on Long Island. At Princeton University he majored in Chemistry, graduated magna cum laude, and, as a senior, competed in the NCAA National Track and Field Championships in the decathlon. He received a Churchill Scholarship to study gas phase chemiluminescence for one year at Cambridge University with Brian Thrush. Subsequently he attended the University of California, Berkeley and performed experimental research with Professors George Pimentel and C. Bradley Moore. His Ph.D. was received in 1977 based on the dissertation “Probing Optical Transitions with Intracavity Dye Laser Spectroscopy”. Dr. Reilly was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Laser Research in Garching, Germany for the following two years. In 1980, he joined the Chemistry Department at Indiana University where he became Full Professor in 1987.

During the 1980’s, the Reilly group at Indiana pioneered the field of laser ionization photoelectron spectroscopy, a tool that many groups came to use to learn about ionic structure and the dynamics of excited electronic states. They made the first direct observation of the Jahn-Teller effect in benzene cation and demonstrated how rotational photoionization selection rules depend on electronic state symmetries. Analytical students in the group developed an ultrasensitive laser ionization GC-MS system and constructed a high-resolution (m/ Dm= 11000) time-of-flight mass spectrometer that was state-of-the-art for its time. Another part of the group developed the first Doppler-free molecular beam spectrometer for studying high overtone vibrational transitions in organic molecules under jet-cooled conditions. In the 1990s, the Reilly group began working on MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry of biological molecules. Their research led to the original patent on space-velocity correlation focusing, a method for improving MALDI-TOF mass analyzer resolution. In recent years they have employed this in a variety of applications in cellular protein analysis.

Honors:

• 1979 - Camille and Henry Dreyfus Grant for Newly Appointed Young Faculty
• 1982 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
• 1983 - Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
• 1988 - Invited Lecturer, Academia Sinica, Peoples Republic of China
• 1998-99 - Indiana University Teaching Excellence Recognition Award

Selected publications by Dr. Reilly can be found under the publications section of the site