R. J. Dwayne Miller

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R. J. Dwayne Miller
Portrait of R. J. Dwayne Miller
R. J. Dwayne Miller in 2016
Born
Robert John Dwayne Miller

(1956-04-18) 18 April 1956 (age 65)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisElectronic excited state transport and trapping in disordered systems (1983)
Doctoral advisorMichael D. Fayer
Other academic advisorsBryan R. Henry
Websitelphys.chem.utoronto.ca

R. J. Dwayne Miller, FRSC is a Canadian chemist and a professor at the University of Toronto. His focus is in physical chemistry and biophysics. He is most widely known for his work in ultrafast laser science, time-resolved spectroscopy, and the development of new femtosecond electron sources. His research has enabled real-time observation of atomic motions in materials during chemical processes and has shed light on the structure-function correlation that underlies biology.[11]

Early life and education[]

Dwayne Miller was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba.[12] In 1978, he received a B.Sc. in chemistry and immunology at the University of Manitoba where Prof. Bryan R. Henry was his advisor. He completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford University in 1983 under the supervision of Prof. Michael D. Fayer. His thesis work focused on energy transport in model systems of photosynthesis and is titled Part I, Electronic excited state transport and trapping in disordered systems; Part II, Laser induced ultrasonics.

Academic career[]

Following graduation, Dwayne Miller gained a faculty position at the University of Rochester and immediately took a 12-month leave to do postdoctoral research in solid state physics as a NATO science fellow at the Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique (renamed to Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique in 2011[13]) at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France under the direction of Drs. Hans Peter Trommsdorff and Robert Romenstain.[14] He returned to University of Rochester in 1984 as an assistant professor of chemistry. He was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and then full professor of chemistry and optics in 1992. In 1995, he moved back to Canada and relocated his research group to the departments of chemistry and physics at the University of Toronto. In 2006, he was appointed as a University Professor [15] and later as a Distinguished Faculty Research Chair.

In 2004, Dwayne Miller co-founded and took up the position of Director of the Department of Atomically Resolved Dynamics at the newly created Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany.[16] He also became co-Director of the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging and the Molecular Architecture of Life research program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). He currently split his time between Canada and Germany, where he leads his two research group.

He was inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1999 and 2016 respectively. He is also a member of the Chemical Institute of Canada, Canadian Association of Physicists, American Physical Society, and Optical Society of America.

Personal life[]

Dwayne Miller is married to his wife Margaret and they have three children: Kathleen, Kelsey, and Cameron.

Science Outreach[]

Beyond his scientific work, Prof. Dwayne Miller is dedicated to the promotion of science education through outreach to school children. He founded and is a board member of Science Rendezvous, an annual science festival that aims to expose general public to science and technology.[17]

Bibliography[]

Selected Papers[]

  • Siwick, Bradley J.; Dwyer, Jason; Jordan, Robert E.; Miller, R. J. Dwayne (2003). "An Atomic-Level View of Melting Using Femtosecond Electron Diffraction". Science. 302 (5649): 1382–1385. Bibcode:2003Sci...302.1382S. doi:10.1126/science.1090052. PMID 14631036. S2CID 4593938.
  • Cowan, Michael L.; Bruner, Barry D.; Huse, Nils; Dwyer, Jason R.; Chugh, B.; Nibbering, Erik T. J.; Elsaesser, Thomas; Miller, R. J. Dwayne (2005). "Ultrafast Memory Loss and Energy Redistribution in the Hydrogen Bond Network of Liquid H2O". Nature. 434 (7030): 199–202. Bibcode:2005Natur.434..199C. doi:10.1038/nature03383. PMID 15758995. S2CID 4396493.
  • Prokhorenko, Valentyn I.; Nagy, Andrea M.; Waschuk, Stephen A.; Brown, Leonid S.; Birge, Robert R.; Miller, R. J. Dwayne (2006). "Coherent Control of Retinal Isomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin". Science. 313 (5791): 1257–1261. Bibcode:2006Sci...313.1257P. doi:10.1126/science.1130747. PMID 16946063. S2CID 8804783.
  • Harb, Maher; Ernstorfer, Ralph; Hebeisen, Christoph T.; Sciaini, Germán; Peng, Weina; Dartigalongue, Thibault; Eriksson, Mark A.; Lagally, Max G.; Kruglik, Sergei G.; Miller, R. J. Dwayne (2008). "Electronically Driven Structure Changes of Si Captured by Femtosecond Electron Diffraction". Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (15): 155504. Bibcode:2008PhRvL.100o5504H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155504. PMID 18518123.
  • Ernstorfer, R.; Harb, M.; Hebeisen, C. T.; Sciaini, G.; Dartigalongue, T.; Miller, R. J. D. (20 February 2009). "The Formation of Warm Dense Matter: Experimental Evidence for Electronic Bond Hardening in Gold". Science. 323 (5917): 1033–1037. doi:10.1126/science.1162697. PMID 19164708.
  • Sciaini, Germán; Harb, Maher; Kruglik, Sergei G.; Payer, Thomas; Hebeisen, Christoph T.; Meyer zu Heringdorf, Frank-J.; Yamaguchi, Mariko; Horn-von Hoegen, Michael; Ernstorfer, Ralph; Miller, R. J. Dwayne (2009). "Electronic Acceleration of Atomic Motions and Disordering in Bismuth". Nature Chemistry. 458 (7234): 56–59. Bibcode:2009Natur.458...56S. doi:10.1038/nature07788. PMID 19262668. S2CID 4377487.
  • Gao, Meng; Lu, Cheng; Jean-Ruel, Hubert; Liu, Lai Chung; Marx, Alexander; Onda, Ken; Koshihara, Shin-ya; Nakano, Yoshiaki; Shao, Xiangfeng; Hiramatsu, Takaaki; Saito, Gunzi; Cooney, Ryan R.; Moriena, Gustavo; Sciaini, Germán; Miller, R. J. Dwayne (2013). "Mapping Molecular Motions Leading to Charge Delocalization using Ultrabright Electrons". Nature. 496 (7445): 1382–1385. Bibcode:2013Natur.496..343G. doi:10.1038/nature12044. PMID 23598343. S2CID 4310738.
  • Halpin, A.; Johnson, P.J.M.; Tempelaar, R.; Murphy, R.S.; Knoester, J.; Jansen, T.L.C.; Miller, R.J.D. (2014). "Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of a Molecular Dimer Unveils the Effects of Vibronic Coupling on Exciton Coherences". Nature Chemistry. 6 (3): 196–201. Bibcode:2014NatCh...6..196H. doi:10.1038/nchem.1834. PMID 24557133.
  • Johnson, Philip J. M.; Halpin, Alexei; Morizumi, Takefumi; Prokhorenko, Valentyn I.; Ernst, Oliver P.; Miller, R. J. Dwayne (2015). "Local Vibrational Coherences Drive the Primary Photochemistry of Vision". Nature Chemistry. 7 (12): 980–986. Bibcode:2015NatCh...7..980J. doi:10.1038/nchem.2398. PMID 26587713.
  • Field, Ryan L.; Liu, Lai Chung; Gawelda, Wojciech; Lu, Cheng; Miller, R. J. Dwayne (2016). "Spectral Signatures of Ultrafast Spin Crossover in Single Crystal [FeII(bpy)3](PF6)2". Chem. Eur. J. 22 (15): 5118–5122. doi:10.1002/chem.201600374. PMID 26839974.
  • Xian, R; Corthey, G; Rogers, DM; Morrison, CA; Prokhorenko, VI; Hayes, SA; Miller, RJD (2017). "Coherent ultrafast lattice-directed reaction dynamics of triiodide anion photodissociation". Nature Chemistry. 9 (6): 516–522. doi:10.1038/nchem.2751. PMID 28537597.

Review Articles[]

  • Miller, R. J. Dwayne (2016). "Ultrafast Imaging of Photochemical Dynamics: Roadmap to a New Conceptual Basis for Chemistry". Faraday Discussions. 194 (16): 777–828. Bibcode:2016FaDi..194..777M. doi:10.1039/C6FD00241B. PMID 27991637.

Books[]

  • Miller, R. J. Dwayne; McLendon, George L.; Nozik, Arthur J.; Schmickler, Wolfgang; Willig, Frank (1995). Surface Electron Transfer Processes. Wiley VCH. ISBN 978-0471185536.

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References[]

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