 Bradley M. Stone is currently Associate Professor of Chemistry at San Jose State University, and joined the Astrochemistry Group in Spring of 1995. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1977 with Honors and High Distinction. He went on to do a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at Indiana University, working with Charles Parmenter on using laser spectroscopy to study intramolecular vibrational redistribution in polyatomic molecules (particularly p-fluorotolune). After finishing his Ph.D. in 1984, he was a post-doctoral research associate for Edward K.C. Lee at the University of California, Irvine, where he studied laser spectroscopy of formyl radical (HCO) and formaldehyde (H2CO) in a supersonic jet. He accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Chemistry at San Jose State in 1985. He has been associated with NASA Ames Research Center since 1989 - first collaborating with Thomas Scattergood in the Solar System Exploration Branch in studying the photochemistry and photophysics of aerosol formation by the photolytic polymerization of organics in the atmosphere of Titan; and more recently collaborating with Louis J. Allamandola in the Astrophysics Branch, studying the spectroscopy of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon cations in cryogenic matrices for the purposes of detection of the species in the interstellar medium. |
